It is no exaggeration to say that Shirin Neshat is the most famous contemporary Iranian artist after Abbas Kiarostami and Asghar Farhadi, with the difference that she is a woman from a Middle Eastern country and her works range from painting, performance art, photography, concept art to cinema and video. All these different fields and genres of art have been completely serious for him. The book Shirin Neshat in a long conversation with Mohammad Abdi is an opportunity to get acquainted with an artist who, despite the importance of his work in the history of art, is abandoned and unknown in Iran for various reasons. The artist won the Venice Biennial Golden Lion and the Silver Lion for Best Director at the Venice Film Festival. Cinema and … has spoken and this book is the first text that has been published in Persian about this great and influential contemporary artist.
Mohammad Abdi (born in 1974) is a novelist, film critic and art researcher living in London. He started writing film reviews and articles in 1990, and since then, with his continuous work as a film critic and art critic in more than fifty publications and media in Iran and abroad, he has written reviews and articles mainly about cinema as well as about He has studied theater, literature and visual arts. He was the editor of the first volume of the seventh art magazine (1378 and 1379). Abdi’s first collection of short stories includes twelve short stories entitled The Death of an Intellectual in 1381 in …
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Mohammad Abdi is an author, film critic, and art researcher. Abdi started his career in 1990. He has written articles and film reviews for many publications both in Persian and English. In 1998, Abdi Published his first book ” Film Criticism in Iran” about the history of film review and film analysis in Iran.
