Oh Nightingale: Parviz Tanavoli

Parviz Tanavoli, the internationally acclaimed Iranian-Canadian artist, is strongly associated with his monumental bronze sculptures, many of them marrying the precepts of Western Modernism with ancient Middle Eastern art and architecture. This WVAM show, however, surveys six decades of his more modestly scaled works, including jewelry, wearable art, paintings, prints and small sculptures. These forms allow him, WVAM says, “to explore the themes of freedom, nothingness, poetry and history.”