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Oh Nightingale: Parviz Tanavoli

 Date: July 24–October 5, 2019
 Opening Reception: Tuesday, July 23 from 7–9 p.m.
 Curator’s Tour: Thursday, July 25 at 1:30 p.m. and
Saturday, September 14 at 2 p.m.
1398 مهر 19 هعمج - 1573 هرامش / 26 لاس About the exhibition

“My cages are homes of hopes. And I put a lot of things in
the cages. It’s the opposite of what some people think: I do
not consider what I put in cages imprisoned, but preserved,
made safe.”
Parviz Tanavoli, 1976

The West Vancouver Art Museum is delighted to present
this exhibition of work by the eminent Iranian-Canadian

Love Nightingale, 2013, gouache on paper. artist, Parviz Tanavoli. A resident of West Vancouver for
Courtesy of the artist. over three decades, Tanavoli is among Canada’s most
significant contemporary artists. This exhibition will feature
work that spans his six-decade-long career, focusing on his
wearable art and small sculptures, prints and paintings of
Quote from the Curator birds, cages and locks. The artist has returned repeatedly
“We are delighted by the opportunity to
showcase the astounding art of international- to these forms, allowing him to explore the themes of
ly acclaimed Iranian-Canadian artist Parviz freedom, nothingness, poetry and history, while playing
Tanavoli, a resident of West Vancouver for with his viewer’s awareness of traditional function and
over 30 years.” meaning. Just as he subverts the accepted meaning of a
cage, he explores dualisms that manifest themselves as
Darrin Morrison, Curator, both significant and trivial, a poet contrasting the everyday
West Vancouver Art Museum with the remarkable.

Tanavoli was born in 1937. His work has been presented
About the West Vancouver Art around the world and has been featured recently in
Museum exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, British
Museum, Asia Society and Grey Art Gallery at New York
The West Vancouver Art Museum is University. His work is held in numerous public and private
operated by the District of West Vancouver. collections, including: Tate Modern and British Museum,
The art museum fosters awareness and
London; Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of
Vol. 26 / No. 1573 - Friday, Oct. 11, 2019 design through its collection, publications, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Museum Moderner Kunst,
understanding of art, architecture, and
Modern Art, New York; Minneapolis Institute of Arts and
exhibitions and educational programs.
Vienna; National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh; Museum
of Contemporary Art, Tehran; Mathaf Museum, Qatar;
Interviews and high-res images are
Royal Society of Fine Arts, Amman; and Guggenheim
available upon request.
Museum, Abu Dhabi.

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