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Sirous Namazi

Sirous Namazi (born 1970) is an Iranian born Swedish artist known for his largescale installations.[1]

Sirous Namazi
Sirous Namazi´s sculpture Ben, bronze, 2012, outside the entrance ot the Art Museum Artipelag, Gustavsberg, Sweden
Born1970 (age 55–56)
Iran
Alma materForum Art School Malmö
School of Art Malmö
Known forConceptual art
Installation art
Video art
Painting
Sculpture
Notable workSirous Telling Jokes (1996)
Leaning Horizontal (2012)
Periphery III (2012)
Leaning Horizontal II (2018)
Container (2019)

Early life

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Namazi moved to Sweden from Iran when he was 10-years-old.[2] He was trained at the Forum Art School in Malmö and, subsequently, the School of Art in Malmö.[citation needed]

Work

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Namazi has exhibited at the Venice Biennale in (2007)[3] and the biennale in Athens (2018)[citation needed]. They have held solo exhibitions at Örebro Konsthall (2018)[citation needed], Lunds Konsthall (2007)[citation needed], and Moderna Museet (2003).[4]

His work, Leaning Horizontal is an installation consisting of a dishevelled ICA Supermarket shelf tipped to an angle of 45 degrees.[5][6]

Periphery III is a balcony with satellite dish mounted high up on a telephone pylon.The work is using the symbol of a suburban balcony, with an observation point of the local neighbourhood, to showcase the more distant world in focus coming in through the satellite dish.[7][8][2][9][10]

Public art

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Namazi created a permanent public artwork, Reconstruction, for the Court of Appeals building in Umeå.[11]

Collections

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Namazi's work is held in the permanent collection of the Moderna Museet,[12] and the Magazin III Museum for Contemporary Art which holds several of his works.[13]

Personal life

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Namazi lives and works in Stockholm.[14]

References

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  1. ↑ Noé, Paola (2007). "Sirous Namazi at Galleria Suzy Shammah". Artforum. Retrieved 27 April 2025.
  2. 1 2 "Konst På Hög". KphKumla. 2012.
  3. ↑ "Welfare-Fare Well: The Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale". E-Flux. Retrieved 27 April 2025.
  4. ↑ "Odd Weeks: Sirous Namazi (press release)". Retrieved 27 April 2025.
  5. ↑ Jones, Ronald (September 2012). "Sirous Namazi". Frieze (149). Retrieved 27 April 2025.
  6. ↑ "Galerie Nordenhake - Sirious Namazi". Galerie Nordenhake. 2012.
  7. ↑ "Moderna Museet - Sirous Namazi". Moderna Museet. 2005.
  8. ↑ "Odd weeks: Sirous Namazi". Moderna Museet. 2003.
  9. ↑ "Moderna Museet - Periphery". Moderna Museet. 2021.
  10. ↑ "Galerie Nordenhake - Sirious Namazi". Galerie Nordenhake. 2005.
  11. ↑ "Reconstruction". Public Art Agency Sweden. Retrieved 27 April 2025.
  12. ↑ "New works in Moderna Museet's collection acquired in 2020". Moderna Museet. Retrieved 27 April 2025.
  13. ↑ "Sirous Namazi". Magazin III Museum of Contemporary Art. Retrieved 27 April 2025.
  14. ↑ "Sirous Namazi". Magasin III. 20 September 2023.


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