The exhibition of the most prominent works of “contemporary art” in the world in the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art

Fars News Agency – Art Group: The treasures of Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art are among the most important and valuable works of art in the world. Contemporary art has experienced and gone through new approaches since 1960, interestingly, some of the most prominent works of art created during this period are in the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art. This is why the works of this treasure are among the most important and of course the most expensive works of art in the world.

Since the establishment of Tehran Museum of Contemporary Arts in 1356, valuable works of visual arts, from Iranian to international, have been included in the museum’s treasure, and over time, its values ​​have increased; The works, of course, have been exhibited many times in various exhibitions in these years.

There are more than 3,000 works in the treasury of Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, whose collection of foreign works covers a 150-year period from impressionism to conceptual art. Among the foreign works, some of them are considered among the most expensive works in the world and are of high material and spiritual value. These days, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art hosts some of the most important works of the schools of minimalism and conceptual art, some of which have been exhibited for the first time.

Minimalism and conceptual art exhibition

According to Fars, citing the public relations of the museum, the exhibition of Minimalism and Conceptual Art has been opened with the presentation of more than 120 works by 34 artists at 5 p.m. In July, those interested can visit this exhibition at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Arts.

This exhibition examines two crucial currents in the history of art, i.e. minimalism and conceptual art, and their influences and derivatives. Two currents that in the middle of the 20th century established a new and unprecedented path in the history of visual arts and changed the conventional definitions of the work of art as an aesthetic object, a legacy that remained in the history of art after the heyday of these two currents. This exhibition introduces and examines examples of these artistic movements, their contexts, preliminaries, as well as their legacy and effects.

Giants of contemporary art / from Frank Stella, to Marcel Duchamp and Donald Judd and John Baldessari

In the exhibition of Minimalism and Conceptual Art, more than 120 works of 34 artists from the treasures of Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, including Sel Le Witt, Joseph Cassot, John Baldesari, Ed Rasha, Jan Dibets, Dennis Oppenheim, Bernard Vonne, Shosaku Arakawa, Marcel Duchamp. , Gilbert and George, Donald Judd, Robert Smithson, Michele Zaza, Brand and Hilla Becker, Graff Elk, Jacqueline Winsor, Terry Atkinson and Michael Baldwin, Beverly Pepper, Peter Struyken, Man Ray, Michel Angelo Pistoletto, Robert Morris, Marcel Bruthers, Featuring Michelle Stewart, Roger Welch, Dan Flavin, Keith Sonnier, Ed Reinhardt, Agnes Martin, Dieter Roth, Christo and Jean-Claude, Frank Stella, Gordon Mattaclark, Daniel Spoery.

The roots of minimalism and conceptual art

From the 1960s onwards in the United States of America, the pop movement gave way to two streams of minimalism with different tendencies, as well as conceptual art with a new idea of ​​the realm of art. In terms of stylistic characteristics, these developments provided a new platform that had an obvious difference in its aesthetic logic compared to the previous methods. Minimal art, with its kind of simplistic view, focused the viewer’s attention exclusively on pure art and warned him of everything that can be identified in the classification of “non-art”. On the other hand, “conceptual art” is based on “idea” and discards the previous definitions of what the work of art is. Conceptual art basically originates from thought patterns, and in this way, it seeks help from any means and materials that are compatible with the expression of the artist’s mentality.

Statement of the exhibition

In the statement of this exhibition, it is mentioned that: The exhibition of Minimalism and Conceptual Art tries to present a part of the valuable treasure of Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, which proposed a new definition of art in the middle of the 20th century. It was not imagined before. Prioritizing thought instead of modernist aesthetic glory created great transformations in the world of art and brought art into areas that aroused surprises.

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