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Ali Ettehad is an Iranian Art Critic and Artist. He was born in 1983 in Sari. He studied cinema in Art university of Tehran. He also studied middle Persian language (Pahlavi language) in literature department of Tehran university and Neyshabour Persian study foundation. He works in different fields of Art; photography, video art, performance and installation. He writes in different art magazines in Iran; such as "Tandis" magazine, "herfeh-honarmand", "Khiyal" (The Quarterly Periodical of the Iranian Academy of the Arts). He was the curator of "AutoPortraits" exhibition in "Azad Art gallery" in Tehran. It was a historical review on contemporary self-portraits of Iranian artists; which followed by a lecture by Hamid Severi (the Iranian art critic and researcher).

His works are usually based on Persian language and Persian ancient culture. He has several series with this theme; such as "Degeneration", "Oblivion", "Fading Mithr" and "Confidence". The last one has been showed in several exhibitions around the world.

Exhibitions

• 2003 Group photography exhibition, Fatima Gallery, Tehran, Iran
• 2004 "Look at the white sky", a video installation, Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults, Tehran, Iran
• 2004 "Turtle's nightmare", Video installation based on Meredith Monk's music album "Turtle Dreams", privet show, Tehran, Iran
• 2007 "Degeneration", Video animation, Dramatic department of Art University of Tehran.
• 2007 Degeneration", Video animation, Persian language department of Orientalogy University of Krakow, Poland
• 2008 Group photography and painting exhibition, Molayeeyan Gallery, Babol, Iran
• 2008 " fading Mithr", an environment work, Dez lake, Pamenar, Khuzestan, Iran
• 2008 "Public Advertisement", a video animation exhibited on Urban Jealousy, The 1st International Roaming Biennial of Tehran, Istanbul, Turkey
• 2008 "Oblivion", environment typography, Khatir-kuh, Cave of Khorshid, Mazandaran, Iran
• 2008 Khat-Keshi, Group typography exhibition, Azad gallery, Tehran, Iran
• 2008 "Public Advertisement", a video animation exhibited on Urban Jealousy, The 1st International Roaming Biennial of Tehran, Berlin, Germany
• 2009 Group Show, HUMAN EMOTION PROJECT (HEP 2009 - Australia), Curated by: Alison Williams,HEP AUSTRALIA 20-24 Guildford Lane,Guildford Lane Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
• 2009 "The Public Advertisement" a video and "After the End of Art" a photo, The 1st International Roaming Biennial of Tehran, Belgrade, Serbia
• 2009 "The Magic Shadow-Show", a music performance, Azat Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
• 2009 "Auto Portrait", Group Exhibition,Curated by: ALi Ettehad, Azad Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran

Essays and reviews on Iranian magazines

• "History of Advertising Photography” in 8 vol., Science of Advertising magazine, 2006.
• “Man, sleep”, a review on Morshed-lu's exhibition, Ayande-no newspaper, 2006.
• “(Crowd) on Homa gallery”, a review on Khosravi's exhibition, Ayande-no newspaper, 2006.
• “Form for expression”, an essay on Phil Borges's photos, Tandis magazine, No.88, 2006.
• “painter of day-dream”, an essay on Storm Thorgerson's works, Tandis magazine, No.92, 2006.
• “Hand as a subject”, a critical essay on Shirin Neshat's works, Tandis magazine, No.85, 2006.
• “Vertical New York”, a review on Horst Hamann's book ‘Vertical New York’, Tandis magazine, No.84, 2006.
• “James Nachtwey”, a review on ‘war photographer’ a documentary film about Nachtwey projects, Tandis magazine, No.83, 2006.
• “Images of Manipulated reality”, a critical essay on Thomes Demand's art works, Tandis magazine, No.82, 2006.
• “Aporia of Object”, a review on Carlo Benvenuto's stage photographs, Tandis magazine, No.81, 2006.
• “Mario Giacomelli”, a review on Giacomelli's photographic life, Tandis magazine, No.86, 2006.
• “Jeff Wall”, a critical assay on wall's stage photos, Tandis magazine, No.79, 2006.
• “Aroon Rose”, a review on Rose's Pine-hole pictures, Tandis magazine, No.74, 2006.
• “Simulation of privacy”, a critical essay on Jan Smaga & Aneta Grzeszykowska, Tandis magazine, No.95, 2006.
• “Video games as art work”, The Art Quarterly (Honar), No.69, autumn 2006.
• “From Icon to Abstraction”, a critical review on Karim Kharbavie's work at 4th biennial of Islamic world painting (Tehran), Saye-e Khial, 2006.
• “Over-time self-portraits”, an essay on Susan Derges photos, Tandis magazine, No.93, 2007.
• “Mixture of form and expression in (End Times) ”, a critical essay on Jill Greenberg's works, Tandis magazine, No.91, 2007.
• “Resurrection of a post-modern artist”, a review on Andrzej Dragan's self-portrait, Tandis magazine, No.97, 2007.
• “Falling down in the rabbit hole”, a critical essay on Wonder by Anna Gaskall, Tandis magazine, 2007.
• “Dramatic photography”, an article on Gregory Crewdson's works, Tandis magazine, No.101, 2007.
• “War Shock”, a review on Bill West's photos, Tandis magazine, No.107, 2007.
• “Prince's cowboys”, an article on Richard Prince works, Tandis magazine, No.97, 2007.
• “Black & white Never-land”, a critical essay on Michel Kena, Tandis magazine, No.109, 2007.
• “Is that a video?”, a review on Faride Shahsavarani's video at Nikzad gallery, Etemad newspaper, No.1455, 31-Jul- 2007.
• “No video – No performance”, a review on Serhat Koksal's video & audio performance at Azad gallery, Etemad, newspaper, No.1470, 19-Aug-2007.
• “Commonplace of romanticism”, a review on Mani Nilchiani's installation at Azad gallery, Etemad newspaper, No.1492, 16-Sep-2007.
• “The contradiction”, a review on Vahid Sharifian's installation at Ave gallery, Etemad newspaper No.1521, 22-Oct-2007.
• “Palasht exotics”, a review on an installation and music performance (Exopalasht) at Azad gallery, Etemad, newspaper, No.1536, 11-Nov- 2007.
• “Internet Art”, the Art Quarterly, No.72, summer 2007.
• “An interview with Amirali Gahsemi”, Etemad newspaper, No.15254, 2-Dec-2007.
• “Spiritual Art”, the Art Quarterly, No.73, autumn 2008.
• “Institution and aesthetic of the photographic image”, Binab Art Quarterly, 2008.
• “Chimères of reality”, an article on Eva Lauterlein's works, Tandis magazine, 2008.
• “Conceptual objects”, a review on a group exhibition at Azad gallery, Etemad newspaper, No.1590, 14-Jan-2008.
• “An interview with Moghimnejad & kurang beheshti”, Etemad newspaper, Jan-2008.
• “Silent puppets”, a review on ‘Kabuki Players’ by Hiroshi Watanabe, Tandis magazine, No.119, 2008.
• Translation of “Dorothea Lange Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California” from the book “Photo Icons” Behind the pictures Volume2, The story, Hans-Michael Koetzle, Taschen, 2002, Profession: Artist Art Quarterly Magazine, Vol.4, No.21, Summer 2007.
• “Institutions & Aesthetics of Photographic Image”, Binab Cultural & Artistic bimonthly (Special to Photography), Islamic Culture & Art Research Institute, No.21, August-September, 2008.
• "Selling modernity through advertising: Technological progress and its reflections on the early 20th Century American advertising", Seval DÜLGEROĞLU Yavuz, from Mustafa Kemal University Faculty of Fine Arts, TURKEY, December 2005, Profession: Artist Art Quarterly Magazine, Vol.4, No.26, autumn-2008.
• "Human motifs", a review on Sadegh Tirafkan's photos at Asar gallery, Ettemad newspaper, 13-Nov.-2008.
• "Like a lunatics", a critical essay on Vahid Chamani's paintings at Nar gallery, Etemad newspaper, 20-Nov-2008.
• "Searching for Self", a critical essay on Ghazaleh Hedayat's photos at Silk Road gallery, Ettemad newspaper, 28-Oct-2008.
• "To look as an audience", a critical essay on Mehran Mohajer's photos at Silk Road gallery, Etemad newspaper, 28-Dec-2008.

Speeches

• "Arab's contemporary poem", Art University of Tehran, Dec-2002.
• "Happening Art and the communication theory", Ghodsie University, May 2007, Sari, Iran.
• "The New wave of Performance Art", Khaak gallery, June 2007, Tehran, Iran.

Interviews

• An interview with Arte about the artist's video installation "Look at the white sky", Jan-2004.
• An interview with IRIB4 T.V, about the video installation "Look at the white sky", Jan-2004.
• An interview with ZDF about "The Islamic World's Painting biannual", 2006.

Books

• “Portraits”, a critical review, “The Abel: Maziar Pahlevan's portraits”, Published by Nazar, Tehran, 2007.
• Co-translator of the book "DaDa's manifestos", Cheshme Press, under publication.

References

External links

• http://www.khtt.net/person/6762
• http://www.biennialtehran.com/artists/video/ali-ettehad.html
• http://www.azadartgallery.com/
• http://www.nikookhani.com/events.asp
• http://www.sourgasm.com/?p=62
• http://www.shervinafshar.name/wiki/Khat-keshi
• http://artipedia.org/artsnews/exhibitions/2009/02/07/human-emotion-project/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_modern_and_contemporary_art
• http://georgien.blogspot.com/2009/02/exhibition-human-emotion-project-with.html
• http://www.honar.ac.ir/en/Publisher/khiyal.asp?id=108
• http://www.treibsand.ch/index.php?id=53
• http://www.artslant.com/global/artists/show/65337-ali-ettehad
• http://www.artslant.com/ew/events/show/47587-the-magic-shadow-show
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/georgienblogspotcom/3279460418/
• http://www.biennialtehran.com/artists_vidoanimashort.html
• http://wiki.name.com/en/Pantea_Afshar
• http://www.tehrantimes.com/PDF/10360/10360-16.pdf
• http://www.virgule.blogsky.com
• http://www.wikio.it/article/79335776
• http://www.annaolmo.com/?p=132