Taraghijah’s poetic horses transcend their animal nature and become rhythm, memory, identity, and sign. His horses are light-footed beings, released from the earth, and at times they even acquire a distinctly human reading.
CEO of Eghtesad Novin Bank : Economic development cannot be conceived without attention to the cultural quality of society. Development that builds more buildings but produces less imagination, attracts more capital but creates less social capital, or generates greater wealth while losing its connection with a society's identity and culture ultimately loses part of the meaning of development.
Watch the video report by Kimia Nakhai, ArtDayMe correspondent, on the exhibition of the Novin Bank Collection of Eghtesad Novin Bank at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art.
Tehran has turned into a vast gallery of paintings and photographs these days; part of the art collection of Eghtesad Novin Bank, simultaneously with its exhibition at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, has appeared on the city’s billboards, spreading a wave of color and energy across the capital.
This work is a testament to the continuity of Iranian culture. In this canvas, Sadegh Tabrizi transforms words into color, history into texture, calligraphy into image, and love into the universal language of art.
Anyone who catches even a distant glimpse of these desert landscapes instantly recognises them as the work of Parviz Kalantari. Within these seemingly quiet settings, the celebrated Iranian painter created an ideal place—a utopia, a promised land imbued with tranquillity, harmony, beauty, and contentment—despite the striking absence of any human figure.
Aydin Aghdashloo’s Masterpiece in the Eghtesad Novin Bank Art Collection
Flame-like crimson strokes rising against a deep black ground evoke an image of ascension, longing, presence, and the force of life itself. More than a calligraphic painting, the work is a visual meditation on humanity's encounter with the transcendent—a realm where word, color, movement, and meaning converge into a single expressive language. It stands among the most accomplished examples of Mohammad Ehsai's celebrated The Eternal Alphabet series and is preserved in the distinguished…
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