Talar-e-Iran (the Hall of Iran) was founded in July 1964. Following the premature death of Mansour Ghandriz, one of its founding members, the other members decided to change its name to Talar Ghandriz (Ghadriz Hall). Ghandriz Hall: An Experiment in the Social Presentation of Art is a book by Ruyin Pakbaz and Hassan Mourizinejad offering an account of the gallery’s events and projects.
Re-examining Iranian art history, this project focuses on providing a survey of the artists whose works are studies in relation to their historical context.  Relics of conversations, events and personalities related to this place, a collection of objects and documents are exhibited to fuel the audience’s desire to learn more. The project is presented inside Ghandriz Hall with the aim of communicating the location’s historical resonance to a contemporary audience. The dialogues created from this experience can provide the audience with an opportunity to participate in an archeology of art history.
The project focuses on a specific epoch in the history of art – a historical epoch that offers significant contrasts to the nostalgic, memorial or scientific (object-oriented) attitudes that, at times, still heavily influence Iranian contemporary art today. The archeological approach applied here is not intended to polish or gloss over anything; rather, history is considered with the existing rifts, gaps, breaches and flaws characteristic of artifacts discovered in archeological excavations. What is presented is not based on an objective analysis; it is actually the result of a contemporary interpretation offered to the audience: what is the relationship between our past and our present?
 

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