Darvish Fakhr’s Palimpsest at EOA.P
The extraordinary painterly explorations by Darvish Fakhr finally get a dedicated exposure in the artist’s solo exhibition at EOA.Projects, aka Edge of Arabia, in southwest London’s slowly regenerating Battersea Thames riverside, writes SAJID RIZVI. It’s a tightly edited, evocative oeuvre that’s on view at the gallery, a culmination of several years of work informed or influenced by visits to native Iran. Remaindered materials and...
Lida Sherafatmand: Early Milestones of an Inner Journey
The subtitle of Lida Sherafatmand’s exhibition at the Roerich Family Museum and Institute, St Petersburg, references an extraordinary citizen of the world, in many ways like Lida herself, in the person of Nikolai Konstantinovich Roerich (Никола́й Константи́нович Ре́рих, 9 October, 1874-13 December, 1947), writes SAJID RIZVI. Again, like Lida Sherafatmand, an itinerant artist (in the best sense of that phrase) Roerich demonstrated an...
Iran in the Service of World Peace
Few books published in English in Iran under Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi offer a wider window on epochal events of the period than this tome by Zaven N. Davidian, writes SAJID RIZVI. Published in 1971 under the aegis of the University of Isfahan Department of International Relations, Iran in the service of world peace was among a handful of titles rushed out in English that marked what became a highly controversial 2500th anniversary...
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