Guggenheim New York with exposure Serralves – Social Propagandist

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By Filipe Ribeiro | March 10, 2015

The contemporary art museum Guggenheim in New York on Friday inaugurated an exhibition organized by the Serralves Museum in Porto.

The exhibition is entirely dedicated to Iranian Monir Farmanfarmaian and goes by the name “Infinite Possibility. Drawings and Works with mirrors 1974-2014 ‘. The art show will feature “some of the first reliefs mirror on plaster and wood, and a series of geometric works with large-scale mirrors” of Monir, in the words of Suzanne Cotter, director of the museum . Serralves which has already taken the place of curator of the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi

In a statement, the Porto museum highlights the importance of the moment: “is demonstrative of the quality of the curatorial work of the Serralves Museum and also work continued internationalization and development of ties with major museums around the world. “

The exhibition took two years to be prepared and was inaugurated in Porto on October 10, 2014. They gathered 80 pieces of the artist, who were far from the public eye since 1970. The curator set exposure at the time of opening in the city invicta, as “crossing the career of an artist” .

Monir Farmanfarmaian is originally from Iran, where he was born 90 years ago. He attended the School of Fine Arts of Tehran until emigrated to the United States, settling in New York City. Was a freelance illustrator and deprived of Vogue with artists such as Milton Avery, Willem de Koonig, Joan Mitchell and Andy Warhol.