45th of 54 works found
Heech Lovers
Title
Heech Lovers
Artist
Tanavoli, Parviz
Date
2019
Medium
steel
Type
sculpture
Owner
Ledingham McAllister
Accession Number
NA
Location
Le Triomphe - Gilmore Ave. and Halifax St., Burnaby
Category
Private Development Public Art
Collection
Public Art
Lat/Long
49.267914,-123.014017
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The artists’ concept proposal states: “The body of my sculpture is made of a Farsi word of Heech. Heech in Farsi means nothingness. However, its meaning extends beyond the mere Nothingness. In fact, it substitutes all things that are known and unknown to us.This nothingness is not tinged with the cynicism of Western artists. It is the nothingness of hope and friendship, a nothingness that does not seek to negate, thus wherever it has been installed, it has warmly been received by public. For some examples see my Heeches at the major museums such as The British Museum, London and the Metropolitan Museum, New York and my Heeches in public places such as Hamline University, St. Paul, Minnesota and Agha Khan Museum in Toronto.”
Parviz Tanavoli was born in Tehran in 1937. Upon graduating from the Brera Academy of Milan in 1959, he taught sculpting at the Tehran College of Decorative Arts, and from 1961 - 1963 he thought at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. He then returned to Iran and assumed the head of sculpting department at the University of Tehran, a position he held for 18 years until 1979, when he retired from his teaching duties. Since 1989 he has lived and worked both in Tehran and Vancouver, Canada. His latest solo exhibition was in 2019 at the West Vancouver Art Museum entitled "Oh Nightingale". Prior to that, he had another solo exhibition in 2017 at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art based on his Lions works and Lion collection.