Seyhoun Art Gallery Thirty-six years have passed since Seyhoun Art Gallery’s
first art exhibition.
This means four decades of uninterrupted activity in the domain of
contemporary Iranian art; an art born some fifty years ago that has been
growing with great dynamism ever since.
Indeed the most long-lived art gallery in Iran, Seyhoun Art Gallery has
successfully pursued its fundamental planned activities—notwithstanding
interruptions due to social and political unrest (the revolution of 1979)—,
holding more than 1200 painting, sculpture, photography and graphic art
exhibitions as well as touching on other present-day international trends,
such as installation art, conceptual art, video art, digital art…The
founder of Seyhoun Art Gallery is Ma‘sumeh Seyhoun, herself an erstwhile
painter whose modern works long appeared in many events in Iran and abroad.
Holding first exhibitions of modern Iranian art pioneers and encouraging
this country’s talents are not the sole reasons of Seyhoun Art Gallery’s
importance and authority; they are also due to its other endeavors, such
as partaking in the formation of Iranian modern art, contributing to the
profitability of contemporary Iranian art, holding official art fairs,
participating effectively in artistic policymaking, simplifying and guaranteeing
Iran’s artistic relations with Western countries, offering expertise
and pricing services regarding classical
and modern Iranian art…
Seyhoun Art Gallery hopes to always remain faithful to its long-lasting
ideals regarding Iranian plastic arts, and to succeed, in the light of
its now considerable experience, in identifying and introducing new lasting
talents whose works conform to international principles while retaining
an Iranian identity.
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