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نیوشا نیوژپور متولد فروردین ۱۳۴۵ در تهران است.
او پس از گذراندن مقطع کارشناسی ارشد نقاشی در دانشگاه هنر و معماری تهران، به صورت حرف های شروع به نقاشی کرد. و حاصل این زندگی حرف های هنری، سابق هی شش نمایشگاه انفرادی و شرکت در بیش از ۸۰ نمایشگاه گروهی داخلی و خارجیست.
وی از کودکی تمایل زیادی به دیدن تصاویر در کتب درسی و داستان داشته است و طبق تعریف خودش هر تصویر بهان های بود تا روزها و ساعت ها با روای تهای ذهنی خودش مشغول باشد.
میل او به فضاهای بعید و دفرمگ یها حاصل ظهر تابستانهاییست که با نشستن بر روی های قدیمی و غرق تماشای نمای حیا طها، باغچ هها، پنجر هها و بازی با سایه و پشت بام خانه آفتاب آنها شده است.
جادوی تخیل را از پرد هخوانی نقالی در حیاط امامزاد های شنیده و بعد از آن برای همیشه گم شده است.
به سان گم شدن در میان ساقه های آفتابگردان ..
نیوشا پیوسته دغدغ ههای اجتماعی را در قالب عناصر طبیعی به تصویر م یکشد و معتقد است طبیعت بزرگترین راهنمای انسان است.
دغدغه هایی چون مرگ، تولد، زندگی، روابط و تعاملات انسانی..
او تقریبا در همه مجموع ههایش سیری را دنبال م یکند و در این مجموعه نیز پس از عبور از ساقه ها و بر گهای سبز آفتابگردان که امید را برای اون تداعی میکند به خزان میرسد. و البته دوباره سبز می شود.
هم آفتابگردان ها و هم امید پس از خزان..
و تکرار..
نیوژپور همچنین در تکمیل حرفهایش درباره این مجموعه اینگونه م یگوید:
برای من، مجموعه حاضر، روایت وضعیت معلقی است که در حال تجربه هستیم؛ موقعیتی وهم آلود میان زمین و آسمان، میان امید و ناامیدی و میان اشتیاق و سرگردانی. تلاش می کنیم از میان ساق ههای بلند آفتابگردان به جلو حرکت کنیم. اما هرچه بیشتر می کوشیم، بیشتر در عمق تاریکی فرو می رویم؛ با این وجود هر لحظ های شوق دیدن آفتاب و آسمان آبی از لابلای برگهای پهن آفتابگردان را انتظار می کشیم. در جایی که بالاتر از خاک و پایی نتر از خورشید است زیست می کنیم. در چنین شرایطی بقا، مقاومت است.
Niusha Niuzhpour was born in April 1966 in Tehran.
After obtaining her master’s degree in painting from the University of Art and Architecture in Tehran, she began painting professionally. This artistic career has resulted in six solo exhibitions and participation in over 80 group exhibitions both domestically and internationally.
From childhood, she had a great inclination to see pictures in textbooks and stories, and according to her, each picture was an excuse to be engrossed for days and hours with her own mental narratives. Her fascination with distant spaces and deformations stems from summer afternoons spent sitting on the rooftops of old houses, absorbed in watching the courtyards, gardens, windows, and playing with their shadows and sunlight.
She heard the magic of imagination from the storytelling sessions in the courtyard of an Imamzadeh and has been lost in it ever since, much like being lost among the stems of sunflowers.
Niusha consistently depicts social concerns through natural elements and believes that nature is humanity’s greatest guide. Her concerns include death, birth, life, relationships, and human interactions. In almost all her collections, she follows a journey, and in this collection, after passing through the green stems and leaves of sunflowers that evoke hope for her, she reaches autumn. And, of course, she turns green again. Both the sunflowers and hope revive after autumn, and this cycle repeats.
She also elaborates on this collection:
For me, the present collection is a narrative of a suspended state that we are experiencing; an illusory situation between earth and sky, between hope and despair, and between eagerness and bewilderment. We strive to move forward through the tall stalks of sunflowers. But the more we try, the deeper we sink into the darkness; nevertheless, we constantly anticipate the joy of seeing the sun and the blue sky through the broad leaves of the sunflowers. We live in a place that is above the soil and below the sun. In such conditions, survival is resistance.
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Overview and HistoryTehran is the capital of Iran and the largest city in the Middle East, with a population of fifteen million people living under the peaks of the Alborz mountain range.Although archaeological evidence places human activity around Tehran back into the years 6000BC, the city was not mentioned in any writings until much later, in the thirteenth century. It's a relatively new city by Iranian standards.But Tehran was a well-known village in the ninth century. It grew rapidly when its neighboring city, Rhages, was destroyed by Mongolian raiders. Many people fled to Tehran.In the seventeenth century Tehran became home to the rulers of the Safavid Dynasty. This is the period when the wall around the city was first constructed. Tehran became the capital of Iran in 1795 and amazingly fast growth followed over the next two hundred years.The recent history of Tehran saw construction of apartment complexes and wide avenues in place of the old Persian gardens, to the detriment of the city's cultural history.The city at present is laid out in two general parts. Northern Tehran is more cosmopolitan and expensive, southern Tehran is cheaper and gets the name "downtown."Getting ThereMehrabad airport is the original one which is currently in the process of being replaced by Imam Khomeini International Airport. The new one is farther away from the city but it now receives all the international traffic, so allow an extra hour to get there or back.TransportationTehran driving can be a wild free-for-all like some South American cities, so get ready for shared taxis, confusing bus routes and a brand new shiny metro system to make it all better. To be fair, there is a great highway system here.The metro has four lines, tickets cost 2000IR, and they have segregated cars. The women-only carriages are the last two at the end, FYI.Taxis come in two flavors, shared and private. Private taxis are more expensive but easier to manage for the visiting traveler. Tehran has a mean rush hour starting at seven AM and lasting until 8PM in its evening version. Solution? Motorcycle taxis! They cut through the traffic and any spare nerves you might have left.People and CultureMore than sixty percent of Tehranis were born outside of the city, making it as ethnically and linguistically diverse as the country itself. Tehran is the most secular and liberal city in Iran and as such it attracts students from all over the country.Things to do, RecommendationsTake the metro to the Tehran Bazaar at the stop "Panzda Gordad". There you can find anything and everything -- shoes, clothes, food, gold, machines and more. Just for the sight of it alone you should take a trip there.If you like being outside, go to Darband and drink tea in a traditional setting. Tehranis love a good picnic and there are plenty of parks to enjoy. Try Mellat park on a friday (fridays are public holidays), or maybe Park Daneshjou, Saaii or Jamshidieh.Remember to go upstairs and have a look around, always always always! The Azadi Tower should fit the bill; it was constructed to commemorate the 2500th anniversary of the Persian Empire.Tehran is also full of museums such as:the Contemporary Art Museumthe Abghine Musuem (glass works)the 19th century Golestan Royal Palace museumthe museum of carpets (!!!)Reza Abbasi Museum of extraordinary miniaturesand most stunning of all,the Crown Jewels Museum which holds the largest pink diamond in the world and many other jaw-dropping jewels.Text by Steve Smith.
