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Iraninas to exhibit
Western art pieces
By Anwar Faruqi
Associated Press Writer
TEHRAN, Iran — Like buried
treasure, scores of original works
by Picasso, Gauguin, Renoir and
other Western masters have lain
hidden in the vaults of a museum
in Iran for nearly 20 years.
But for the first time since the
1979 Iranian revolution, the rich
collection is expected to go on dis
play early next year.
The paintings and sculptures
were ordered col 1 ected for the state
by Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
and his wife, Farah Diba,during the
oil boom of the 1970s.
But when the Iranian monarch
was overthrown, the new Islamic
government, thumbing its nose at
all things Western, locked away
most of the pieces at the Museum
of Contemporary Arts.
The collection has remained in
the vaults, while the galleries
above are filled with kitsch revo
lutionary art and Islamic pieces.
Only works by Iranian masters
and a half-dozen lithographs by
Picasso, Chagall and Miro are dis
played from the old collection.
The exhibits draw few visitors,
even on weekends.
But the May 1997 election of a
new Iranian piesident has brought
sweeping political changes, affect
ing attitudes to nearly everything
— including art.
A former minister of culture, Pres
ident Mohammad Khatami has res
cued Iran’s art scene from years of
isolation, even encouraging cultural
exchanges with the United States,
considered Iran’s arch-enemy by
hard-line revolutionaries.
At the Museum of Contemporary
Arts, a new curator is busy readying
gal leries where works by such artists
as Kandinsky, Monet, Pissarro,
Braque, Toulouse-Lautrec, Pollock
and Warhol will be shown.
“New facilities currently being
built to display our treasury of
Western art should be ready by the
end of this year, and so by early
1999 the galleries should be open
to the public,” said Alireza Sami
Azar, the curator.
He said some works are even be
ing loaned abroad. A Gauguin was
recently sent to a Swiss exhibition
of the French master’s works.
Some prized possessions will
remain locked up. Displaying
nudes or semi-nudes would run
into modesty laws.
Nearby, Swiss sculptor Max Bill’s
bronze of a dancing woman was
spared similar zeal, probably because
the abstract figure eight magically
transforms into a graceful dancer only
when viewed from a certain angle.
Since the revolution, that sculp
ture and a few others scattered
around the museum’s manicured
lawn are the only hint of what’s
locked up inside. Few passers-by
recognize the sculptures as works
by Henry Moore, Alexander
Calder and Alberto Giacometti.
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