The first in‐depth monograph on the Iranian‐born artist Shahpour Pouyan, Skyhigh is my place brings together key texts and images on the artist''s practice.
The publication departs from Shahpour Pouyan''s ambitious installation Skyhigh is my place at the Museum Dhondt‐Dhaenens in Belgium, which partially filled MDD''s main exhibition space with wheat and inverted a largescale replica of a military control tower in its patio. By uniting these two elements, Pouyan summons the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and specifically his father''s involvement in this historic moment. At the height of the Revolution, Pouyan''s father, an electronic engineer for jet fighters, took part in a collective effort to plant wheat on his military base near Isfahan. It offers an in‐depth view of Shahpour Pouyan''s recent work and notably contains:
Text in English and Dutch.
The first in‐depth monograph on the Iranian‐born artist Shahpour Pouyan, Skyhigh is my place brings together key texts and images on the artist''s practice.
The publication departs from Shahpour Pouyan''s ambitious installation Skyhigh is my place at the Museum Dhondt‐Dhaenens in Belgium, which partially filled MDD''s main exhibition space with wheat and inverted a largescale replica of a military control tower in its patio. By uniting these two elements, Pouyan summons the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and specifically his father''s involvement in this historic moment. At the height of the Revolution, Pouyan''s father, an electronic engineer for jet fighters, took part in a collective effort to plant wheat on his military base near Isfahan. It offers an in‐depth view of Shahpour Pouyan''s recent work and notably contains:
Text in English and Dutch.