Iranian Artists Vie for Solo Saatchi Show

The Iranian artists whose work has been featured here are among the 25 shortlisted for the 2011 Magic of Persia Contemporary Art Prize. Next, the artists will present in March a selection of their work at a three-day event in Dubai. The judges will select five to ten finalists who will exhibit at the Royal College of Art in London October 11-15, 2011 -- Christie's will conduct an auction of all of the finalists' work on the last evening. Proceeds will be divided between the artists and the Magic of Persia Contemporary Art Prize. The winner -- who gets a solo show at the Saatchi Gallery in London in Autumn 2012 -- will be announced by Ali Khadra after the auction.

*Some of the images have been cropped. 

 MOD ANGEL, Hojat Amani

 PICHAPOOCH, Morteza Ahmadvand

 ERROR NO. 1, Reza Azimian

 BEYOND THE SENSE OF BREAKING 1, Parastoo Ahovan

 ME -01, Shahrzad Changalvaee

 UNTITLED, Alireza Dayani

 UNTITLED, Hossein Azadi

 UNTITLED GREEN, Navid Azimi Sajadi

 THE MARTYR'S SON, Behroo Bagheri

 KETCHUP SAUCE, Arash Fayez

 NEGOTIATING THE SPACE FOR POSSIBLE COEXISTENCE NO. 3, Babak Golkar

MATURITY SERIES, Shima Esfandiyari

 THE KAHAN FAMILY FROM GOLPAYGAN, Dana Nehdaran

 ASHOURAIAN, Babak Kazem

 UNTITLED, Ghazaleh Hedayat

 WE LIVE IN PARADOXICAL SOCIETY, Ramyar Manouchehrzadeh and Ali Nadjian

CATALYSTArtist :Asad Faulwell

 UNTITLED, Rodin Hamidi

 13 DAY OUT, Mehdi Farhadian

IRANDOKHT, Najaf Shokri

SOLITAIRE (SET OF SPADES), Hesam Rahmanian

 WONDERLAND (2500 YEARS CELEBRATION), Mamali Shafahi

UNTITLED, Dariush Nehdaran

Via FRONTLINE: Tehran Bureau