Khastoo Gallery
7556 W Sunset Blvd
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Vahid Sharifian: My father is a democrat and through his chimney there are always hearts flying to the sky and Mahmoud Bakhshi Moakhar
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Vahid Sharifian, Untitled (Sophia Loren), Digital print on holographic paper, Courtesy of Khastoo Gallery
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Opens Saturday Apr 11, 2009 (6–8pm)
Apr 11, 2009 – May 16, 2009
Wednesdays–Saturdays (noon–5pm)
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PLEASE NOTE: The dates of this exhibition have changed. It now opens April 11, 2009.
Two Iranian artists share the rooms at Khastoo Gallery this month, as Vahid Sharifian and Mahmoud Bakhshi Moakhar — both of whom live and work in Tehran — present their first exhibitions in the US. Sharifian presents a series of mediated digital photographs based on a vintage, kitsch-saturated cookbook featuring Sophia Loren; installed in a sculptural environment, its overall effect is one of visual and conceptual reflection, sustaining the artist's satirical insight into pop culture's quirks and fetish for consumption. Moakhar also presents a photo-based installation investigating the illusion of appearance and surface, with a series of thrice-removed pictures of flowers that traces their lineage from the real to the artificial.
