Return from Europe

© Siamak Filizadeh
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Return from Europe

Series: Underground
Edition: 1/5

2014
Photographs
Inkjet print
51 3/16 × 51 3/16 × 1 1/4 in. (130.02 × 130.02 × 3.18 cm)
Purchased with funds provided by Kitzia and Richard Goodman through the 2016 Collectors Committee (M.2016.138.14)
Not currently on public view

Curator Notes

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Nasir al-Din was the first Iranian ruler to visit Europe; he made three trips in all. In Siamak Filizadeh’s rendering of the return from one such journey, the shah’s family members are shown in a darkened courtyard bending forward under the burden of their luxury goods. At center, lit by a spotlight, the king is clothed and posed as Michael Jackson. The irony of this seemingly gently derisive scene is that the actual European tours were bracketed historically by social and religious unrest and armed government retaliation.
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Bibliography

  • Komaroff, Linda. In the Fields of Empty Days: The Intersection of Past and Present in Iranian Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2018.
  • Komaroff, Linda. In the Fields of Empty Days: The Intersection of Past and Present in Iranian Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2018.

  • Komaroff, Linda. "Islamic Art Now and Then." In Islamic Art: Past, Present, Future, edited by Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom, 26-56. New Haven, New York, and London: Yale University Press, 2019.

  • Balaghi, Shiva. "Mining the Past." Canvas 14, no.4 (2018): 114-117.
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