2017-01-15

Works of five Iranian artists are on display at the 7th Art Stage Singapore, currently underway in the island city-state. This year’s edition features 132 galleries from 27 countries and the Iranian artworks are presented by the Sophia Contemporary Gallery, London, which focuses on contemporary art of the Middle East and in particular Iran, alongside recent western art. Painters Reza Derakshani, 64, Pooya Aryanpour, 46, Reza Baharvand, 40, Azadeh Razaghdoost, 36, and sculptor Ramin Shirdel, 35, are the artists from Iran who each have 9 works at the event, Honaronline reported. A highlight of every edition of the fair is the artworks put on display in the open grounds. This year, among the 5 pieces selected for the public artworks program, there is a 180-cm tall fiberglass sculpture by Shirdel titled ‘Yellow Joy’. Shirdel often works with spatial and abstract properties of ...

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