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February 2011
ABOUT LTMH
Founded in 1982, Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller (LTMH) Gallery has established a worldwide reputation in both the primary and secondary art market. Known for an active and innovative exhibition schedule, the gallery shows paintings, works on paper, sculpture, installation and video from international contemporary artists to modern masters, with a specialization in artists from the Middle East.
With an emphasis on discovering and cultivating new talent, the gallery presents imaginative thematic exhibitions and tightly focused solo exhibitions with work from both prominent figures on the international stage and emerging artists.
LTMH Gallery has the distinction of presenting the first viewings in New York City of work by contemporary artists who have developed important international reputations. The gallery also carries the work of major 20th century modern masters.
The gallery has placed work in major private collections and museums internationally. With a rigorous art fair schedule, LTMH Gallery participates in fairs in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, London, Paris, Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Istanbul.
For over 25 years, the gallery's mission has been to inspire dialogue among collectors, curators, artists and critics. With its long standing commitment to creating linkages between Eastern and Western culture through art, the gallery is well positioned in the burgeoning Iranian, Turkish and Middle Eastern art market. The hallmark of LTMH Gallery is its salon style atmosphere attracting an international group of leaders in art, business, fashion, media and government.
Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery's location at 39 East 78th Street and Madison Avenue in a townhouse on the Upper East Side of Manhattan provides an intimate setting to view work, and is within walking distance of The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Founded in 1982, Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller (LTMH) Gallery has established a worldwide reputation in both the primary and secondary art market. Known for an active and innovative exhibition schedule, the gallery shows paintings, works on paper, sculpture, installation and video from international contemporary artists to modern masters, with a specialization in artists from the Middle East.
With an emphasis on discovering and cultivating new talent, the gallery presents imaginative thematic exhibitions and tightly focused solo exhibitions with work from both prominent figures on the international stage and emerging artists.
LTMH Gallery has the distinction of presenting the first viewings in New York City of work by contemporary artists who have developed important international reputations. The gallery also carries the work of major 20th century modern masters.
The gallery has placed work in major private collections and museums internationally. With a rigorous art fair schedule, LTMH Gallery participates in fairs in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, London, Paris, Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Istanbul.
For over 25 years, the gallery's mission has been to inspire dialogue among collectors, curators, artists and critics. With its long standing commitment to creating linkages between Eastern and Western culture through art, the gallery is well positioned in the burgeoning Iranian, Turkish and Middle Eastern art market. The hallmark of LTMH Gallery is its salon style atmosphere attracting an international group of leaders in art, business, fashion, media and government.
Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery's location at 39 East 78th Street and Madison Avenue in a townhouse on the Upper East Side of Manhattan provides an intimate setting to view work, and is within walking distance of The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
New York. An exhibition of photographic montages by Iranian artist Soody Sharifi will be on view at LTMH Gallery from February 4 through February 22, 2011. Of Miniature Serenades and Maxiature Moments is the artist’s first solo show in New York City. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue with an essay by Francesca Leoni, Curator of Islamic Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
In the works from the Maxiatures series, which make up the largest part of this exhibition, the artist has taken traditional Persian miniature paintings, blown them up to a larger size, and interjected them with modern characters and objects, such as off-road vehicles and satellite dishes. The blurred narratives of figures from Persian aristocratic court culture and people from everyday life, explore both the tension between public and private spaces and the contrast between tradition and modernity. The Maxiatures also play with the clash of mediums, whereby meticulously painted miniatures meet modern-day photography. The series Persian Delights adopts the same digital concept, although the setting is reduced to a single narrative placed in front of a monochromatic bright background. By adding further layers to the fabric of the original miniatures, the artist draws a line of continuity between the content and crafts of the 14th and 15th century through to the present day.
As Leoni writes in the catalogue, “Suspended between fiction and reality, these spaces welcome modern actors, providing contexts for new stories while at the same time offering the opportunity to comment on the themes that underlie the traditional images. Hence, not only do the new compositions build on their traditional models pictorially, but they also elaborate on them conceptually, creating a continuum between past and present.”
Soody Sharifi was born in Tehran in 1955 and received her MFA in photography from the University of Houston. The artist has been awarded a number of grants in the U.S, and was recently shortlisted for the Jameel Prize presented by the Albert & Victoria Museum, London. Her work has been exhibited widely in the U.S. and is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Farjam Collection in Dubai. Sharifi lives and works in Houston, Texas.
In the works from the Maxiatures series, which make up the largest part of this exhibition, the artist has taken traditional Persian miniature paintings, blown them up to a larger size, and interjected them with modern characters and objects, such as off-road vehicles and satellite dishes. The blurred narratives of figures from Persian aristocratic court culture and people from everyday life, explore both the tension between public and private spaces and the contrast between tradition and modernity. The Maxiatures also play with the clash of mediums, whereby meticulously painted miniatures meet modern-day photography. The series Persian Delights adopts the same digital concept, although the setting is reduced to a single narrative placed in front of a monochromatic bright background. By adding further layers to the fabric of the original miniatures, the artist draws a line of continuity between the content and crafts of the 14th and 15th century through to the present day.
As Leoni writes in the catalogue, “Suspended between fiction and reality, these spaces welcome modern actors, providing contexts for new stories while at the same time offering the opportunity to comment on the themes that underlie the traditional images. Hence, not only do the new compositions build on their traditional models pictorially, but they also elaborate on them conceptually, creating a continuum between past and present.”
Soody Sharifi was born in Tehran in 1955 and received her MFA in photography from the University of Houston. The artist has been awarded a number of grants in the U.S, and was recently shortlisted for the Jameel Prize presented by the Albert & Victoria Museum, London. Her work has been exhibited widely in the U.S. and is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Farjam Collection in Dubai. Sharifi lives and works in Houston, Texas.
Soody Sharifi
Of Miniature Serenades and Maxiature Moments
LTMH Gallery
4- 22 February
LTMH Gallery
4- 22 February
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