Khosrow Hassanzadeh
Pahlavan II, Ready to Order2008

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Artist or Maker: Khosrow Hassanzadeh
Iran, Tehran, 1963-2023
Title: Pahlavan II, Ready to Order
Date Made: 2008
Medium: Mixed media box
Dimensions: 76 × 52 × 10 in. (193 × 132.08 × 25.4 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Lynda and Stewart Resnick through the 2017 Collectors Committee
Accession Number: M.2017.68
Classification: Sculpture
Collecting Area: Art of the Middle East: Contemporary
Curatorial Notes: This mixed-media box provides a contemporary take on Iranian history, culture, and religion. Its focal point is an image of a pahlavan (or champion) based on a vintage photograph. The pahlavan is clothed as a member of the zurkhana and enclosed, along with actual objects associated with the zurkhana, in a shrine-like structure decorated with internal lights, perhaps to emulate the Iranian tradition of erecting temporary memorials to commemorate the dead.
Selected 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.
Copyright: © Khosrow Hassanzadeh

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Not on view

Artist or Maker: Khosrow Hassanzadeh
Iran, Tehran, 1963-2023
Title: Pahlavan II, Ready to Order
Date Made: 2008
Medium: Mixed media box
Dimensions: 76 × 52 × 10 in. (193 × 132.08 × 25.4 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Lynda and Stewart Resnick through the 2017 Collectors Committee
Accession Number: M.2017.68
Classification: Sculpture
Collecting Area: Art of the Middle East: Contemporary
Curatorial Notes: This mixed-media box provides a contemporary take on Iranian history, culture, and religion. Its focal point is an image of a pahlavan (or champion) based on a vintage photograph. The pahlavan is clothed as a member of the zurkhana and enclosed, along with actual objects associated with the zurkhana, in a shrine-like structure decorated with internal lights, perhaps to emulate the Iranian tradition of erecting temporary memorials to commemorate the dead.
Selected 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.
Copyright: © Khosrow Hassanzadeh