{"id":707,"date":"2021-05-20T08:48:04","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T00:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/?p=707"},"modified":"2021-05-19T10:53:33","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T02:53:33","slug":"one-work-arghavan-khosravis-black-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/artist\/one-work-arghavan-khosravis-black-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"ONE WORK: ARGHAVAN KHOSRAVI\u2019S \u201cBLACK RAIN\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JPEGs do no favors for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\">Arghavan Khosravi<\/a>\u2019s work; though they look flat and one-dimensional online, the artist\u2019s canvases are emphatically sculptural in person, with intricate constructions, illusionistic uses of depth and surface, and judicious, almost exclamatory incorporations of found materials. Their complex relations all serve to articulate an Iranian woman\u2019s view of her homeland\u2019s repressive religious and cultural mores. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\">Take\u00a0<em>Black Rain<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(2021), from her current exhibition \u201cIn Between Places\u201d at Rachel Uffner in New York. Six differently shaped supports made of wood and canvas\u2014discrete picture planes\u2014combine to form a whole. In the foreground, an unnaturally pink-hued hand, cut out of thin wood, curls around the neck of a woman painted on a tall canvas stretched over an eight-inch-deep box. Almost all the works in the exhibition feature a woman with a pensive gaze and redacted facial features\u2014a black rectangle covering her eyes or a chain locking her mouth\u2014who seems to be a psychological stand-in for the artist.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtelierAuctionsg\"><em>Black Rain<\/em><\/a>, the woman\u2019s carefully cropped portrait reveals her ear, wisps of hair, the side of her neck, and the collar of her purple shirt. From her ear dangles a large key, which in Khosravi\u2019s lexicon may symbolize a freeing of sorts\u2014from Iran, from gender expectations, from fundamentalism\u2014especially if we observe the still life on the canvas behind it, in mid-ground. A shackle rests open, as if just unlocked, and is \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtelierAuctionsg\">chained<\/a>\u201d to six balls by a real cord looped through the piece. While the imagery is heavy-handed, it works in Khosravi\u2019s hyperrealistic style, which is narrative in the way of a comic book (she was also trained as an illustrator). The components closest to the wall are a slower read: a man\u2019s head is cut off below the eyebrows, spraying hundreds of falling dots, while a woman\u2019s head is hidden by a book whose cover is cut out of the canvas, exposing the wall behind. Layered with Khosravi\u2019s other symbols, the juxtaposition suggests knowledge is both a portal to freedom and a tool for independence.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source\uff1ahttps:\/\/www.artnews.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JPEGs do no favors for Arghavan Khosravi\u2019s work; though they look flat and one-dimensional online, the artist\u2019s canvases are emphatically sculptural in person, with intricate constructions, illusionistic uses of depth and surface, and judicious, almost exclamatory incorporations of found materials. Their complex relations all serve to articulate an Iranian woman\u2019s view of her homeland\u2019s repressive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13,7,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-707","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artist","8":"category-auction","9":"category-events","10":"category-gallery","11":"category-latest-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ONE WORK: ARGHAVAN KHOSRAVI\u2019S \u201cBLACK RAIN\u201d - Investable Art Auctioneer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"JPEGs do no favors for Arghavan Khosravi\u2019s work; though they look flat and one-dimensional online, the artist\u2019s canvases are emphatically sculptural in person, with intricate constructions, illusionistic uses of depth and surface, and judicious, almost exclamatory incorporations of found materials.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/artist\/one-work-arghavan-khosravis-black-rain\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ONE WORK: ARGHAVAN KHOSRAVI\u2019S \u201cBLACK RAIN\u201d - Investable Art Auctioneer\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"JPEGs do no favors for Arghavan Khosravi\u2019s work; 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