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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.
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March2011
ArtCalendar
New York - March
Shirin Fakhim
The Tell-Tale Tart
LTMH Gallery - NYC
until 29 March
The Tell-Tale Tart
LTMH Gallery - NYC
until 29 March
Shirin Fakhim, Untitled 8 (from the Tell-Tale Tart), 2010
Shirin Fakhim
Untitled 1 (from the Tell-Tale Tart), 2010
Untitled 1 (from the Tell-Tale Tart), 2010
Shirin Fakhim
Untitled 3 (from the Tell-Tale Tart), 2010
Untitled 3 (from the Tell-Tale Tart), 2010
AN EXHIBITION of sculptures by Iranian artist Shirin Fakhim will be on view at LTMH Gallery through March 29, 2011. The Tell-Tale Tart is the artist’s first ever solo show. Accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue with an essay by Ali Bakhtiari, the exhibition runs in conjunction with Art Middle East during 2011 Armory Arts Week (March 3 - 6).
In this series of new life-size sculptural work, Fakhim depicts the streetwalkers of Tehran, often driven to their trade by poverty or abusive domestic situations. Exposing the hypocrisy of the sex industry with both a serious and humorous sensitivity, the new assemblages are created of readymade traditional terra cotta pots of various shapes and scales that are used as the body. The pots are then “dressed” with fabrics, wigs, jazzy high heel boots and different accessories bought from the public markets, second hand shops, and the bazaar. Some of the life-sized sculptures are even dressed in the artist’s own clothes. While colorful on the outside, one work, Untitled 8 (from the Tell-Tale Tart), 2010, has been painted entirely black inside and it appears that the woman is trying to pull herself out of the pot - and her own misery.
As Bakhtiari writes in the catalogue, “Almost all her characters lack hands, symbolizing social disability. The current series of sculptures have also lost their lower limbs symbolizing social restrictions. Literally, Shirin’s women cannot stand on their own. She is conveying the opinion that women in one way or another are kept as mistresses, dependant on men in a male dominated society. Shirin Fakhim’s body of work is an interpretation of her own personal life experience and observations. Married and divorced at a very young age, Shirin’s struggles with life and society came early and her bouts of depression and drug use complicated matters further.”
Shirin Fakhim was born in Tehran in 1973 and is a self-taught artist. Her work has been exhibited in New York, London, Rome, Lille and Dubai, and is represented in the Charles Saatchi Collection, UK and the Devi Art Foundation, India. She lives and works in Tehran, Iran.
On view concurrently in the LTMH Project Space will be a new video painting installation The Mist, 2011 by Shoja Azari and Shahram Karimi.
Art Middle East, founded by Nazy Nazhand, is a series of programs and exhibits during NY Armory Arts Week, dedicated to promoting the emerging contemporary art of the Middle East and fostering the relationship between East and West through cultural and economic dialogue. More information is available at: http://artmiddleeastfair.com.
In this series of new life-size sculptural work, Fakhim depicts the streetwalkers of Tehran, often driven to their trade by poverty or abusive domestic situations. Exposing the hypocrisy of the sex industry with both a serious and humorous sensitivity, the new assemblages are created of readymade traditional terra cotta pots of various shapes and scales that are used as the body. The pots are then “dressed” with fabrics, wigs, jazzy high heel boots and different accessories bought from the public markets, second hand shops, and the bazaar. Some of the life-sized sculptures are even dressed in the artist’s own clothes. While colorful on the outside, one work, Untitled 8 (from the Tell-Tale Tart), 2010, has been painted entirely black inside and it appears that the woman is trying to pull herself out of the pot - and her own misery.
As Bakhtiari writes in the catalogue, “Almost all her characters lack hands, symbolizing social disability. The current series of sculptures have also lost their lower limbs symbolizing social restrictions. Literally, Shirin’s women cannot stand on their own. She is conveying the opinion that women in one way or another are kept as mistresses, dependant on men in a male dominated society. Shirin Fakhim’s body of work is an interpretation of her own personal life experience and observations. Married and divorced at a very young age, Shirin’s struggles with life and society came early and her bouts of depression and drug use complicated matters further.”
Shirin Fakhim was born in Tehran in 1973 and is a self-taught artist. Her work has been exhibited in New York, London, Rome, Lille and Dubai, and is represented in the Charles Saatchi Collection, UK and the Devi Art Foundation, India. She lives and works in Tehran, Iran.
On view concurrently in the LTMH Project Space will be a new video painting installation The Mist, 2011 by Shoja Azari and Shahram Karimi.
Art Middle East, founded by Nazy Nazhand, is a series of programs and exhibits during NY Armory Arts Week, dedicated to promoting the emerging contemporary art of the Middle East and fostering the relationship between East and West through cultural and economic dialogue. More information is available at: http://artmiddleeastfair.com.
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