SPIKE MAGAZINE: JEF GEYS / MONIR SHAHROUDY FARMANFARMAIAN – THE WORLD AS SEEN THROUGH A PELICAN IN PLEXI
KEMPENS INFORMATIEBLAD – JEF GEYS AND WIELS INVITE MONIR SHAHROUDY FARMANFARMAIAN – PAGES 24-29
KEMPENS INFORMATIEBLAD – JEF GEYS AND WIELS INVITE MONIR SHAHROUDY FARMANFARMAIAN – PAGES 1-13
HANS ULRICH OBRIST INTERVIEWS MONIR SHAHROUDY FARMANFARMAIAN
You can read the interviews in English, French or Dutch here in pdf or below. These extracts are taken from three interviews with Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, conducted by Hans Ulrich Obrist between 2008 and 2010; Iranian poet Etel Adman is present for one of them. The interviews, merged into one, were published in Monir Shahroudy […]
JEF GEYS / MONIR SHAHROUDY FARMANFARMAIAN – EXTRACTS FROM NADER ARDALAN AND LALEH BAKHTIAR’S ‘SHAPE’
The beauty observed in a snow crystal depends as much on its geometrical order as on its ability to reflect a higher and more profound order. It follows that all shapes, surfaces, and lines are arranged in conformity with the proportions inherent in nature and reflect ideal systems of beauty. Resting on an objective foundation, […]
MONIR SHAHROUDY FARMANFARMAIAN – EXTRACTS FROM NEGAR AZIMI’S ‘WAYS OF SEEING: A LIFE IN FRAGMENTS’
Extraits de ‘Manières de voir : une vie fragmentée ‘, de Negar Azimi L’artiste Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian fabrique des œuvres incrustées d’éclats de miroir et de verre qui rappellent et réinterprètent la culture visuelle traditionnelle iranienne. Elle est en quelque sorte une artiste-ethnographe, une doyenne inspirée du bric-à-brac oriental, une championne du vernaculaire comme éminemment […]
ARCHIVAL, VERNACULAR AND MULTI-REPRODUCED IMAGES: PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE WORK OF JEF GEYS – BY LIESBETH DECAN
You can read the text here in pdf or below. Gearchiveerde, vernaculaire en veelvuldig gereproduceerde beelden: fotografie in het werk van Jef Geys[1] Jef Geys werkte met foto’s vanaf zijn debuut als kunstenaar, dus vanaf 1958. In de Belgische kunstwereld was hij de allereerste om dat te doen. In de vroege jaren 1960 zouden ook […]
OUTLINES – JEF GEYS / MONIR SHAHROUDY FARMANFARMAIAN 2011-2013
JEF GEYS – EINDRESULTAAT 1965 – 2013 – WIELS
1×1 meter Jef Geys / Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian in WIELS 08.06.2013 – 15.09.2013
JEF GEYS / MONIR SHAHROUDY FARMANFARMAIAN IN WIELS – BRUSSELS
Jef Geys suggested the unlikely combination for this double-exhibition, which orchestrates a meeting between his work and that of Iranian artist Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, who is described as ‘one of Iran’s most inspiring and innovative artists’. Although she lived and worked in New York for a good many years, her work is deeply rooted in Iranian culture and […]