Oh Nightingale: Parviz Tanavoli

PARVIZ TANAVOLI, BIRD AND TREE, 2006 COURTESY OF THE ARTIST

Oh Nightingale: Parviz Tanavoli

West Vancouver Art Museum, West Vancouver, BC - To Oct 5

by Robin Laurance

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.”

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