TAZKAR serves as a dedicated platform for promoting artists whose work encapsulates an innovative conceptual perspective and diverse forms of artistic expression. The innovative feature signifies an artist’s capacity for employing a highly “personalized”* approach. It encourages a process of exploration and theoretical inquiry within the realm of the arts, offering a lens through which to examine the public practice of art from a more intimate, personal perspective.
Tazkar assumes an exclusive role as the representative of its artists within Iran, orchestrating their introduction and subjecting their works to scrutiny within the realms of theory and critique. This strategic approach aims to enhance the capacities for engaging in critical dialogues, fostering creative receptions, and, more broadly, cultivating a fresh and distinctive space for discourse in the realm of the arts. Our objective in featuring foreign artists alongside their Iranian counterparts is to introduce practices from outside our immediate locale, aligning with this experimentation. These foreign artists, marked by their contextual and academic disparities, primarily distinguish themselves in terms of their conceptual sensibilities or artistic techniques compared to local artists. While these distinctions may be subtly woven into their work, they do not constitute the primary aim of our endeavor. Our focus is mainly on artists who simultaneously embody these distinctions while maintaining an unwavering independence in their artistic philosophy and approach to their environment. What we aspire to recognize and promote are these autonomous perspectives within the realm of the arts and in our exploration of what we perceive as “reality.”
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*Personalized communication draws its nourishment from the realms of memory and time, making it distinct from the prevailing reality. In this context, an unconventional work of art takes shape through the fusion of imagination and theory, asserting itself as a novel contender for what we perceive as reality. Under this framework, the artist’s creative process isn’t a mere product of desire but rather emerges as an integral aspect of their lifestyle and intellectual dialogue with the world. Artists aren’t confined to introducing entirely novel things; instead, they meticulously explore the existing landscape, coexisting harmoniously within it. As a result, engaging with the work of these artists, rather than an artwork, is an encounter with a style of living.| TAZKAR means remembering and being remembered, a narration of memory and time.