Aziz Art May 2016

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1.Shirin Neshat 9. Competition 10.Anish Kapoor 17. Competition 18.London Legal Walk 20.Lake Urmia Director: <strong>Aziz</strong> Anzabi Editor and translator : Asra Yaghoubi Research: Zohreh Nazari
Shirin Neshat born 1957 is an Iranian visual artist who lives in New York City, known primarily for her work in film, video and photography.Her artwork centers around the contrasts between Islam and the West, femininity and masculinity, public life and private life, antiquity and modernity, and bridging the spaces between these subjects. Neshat has been recognized countless times for her work, from winning the International Award of the XLVIII Venice Biennale in 1999,to winning the Silver Lion for best director at the 66th Venice Film Festival in 2009,to being named <strong>Art</strong>ist of the Decade by Huffington Post critic G. Roger Denson. about the west, romanticized the west, and slowly rejected all of his own values; both my parents did. What happened, I think, was that their identity slowly dissolved, they exchanged it for comfort. It served their class”. As a part of Neshat’s “Westernization” she was enrolled in a Catholic boarding school in Tehran. Through her father’s acceptance of Western ideologies came an acceptance of a form of western feminism. Neshat’s father encouraged each of his daughters to “be an individual, to take risks, to learn, to see the world", and he sent his daughters as well as his sons to college to receive their higher education. Background Neshat is the fourth of five children of wealthy parents, brought up in the religious town of Qazvin in north-western Iran under a "very warm, supportive Muslim family environment",where she learned traditional religious values through her maternal grandparents. Neshat's father was a physician and her mother a homemaker. Neshat said that her father, "fantasized 1
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