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At the heart of Iran’s historic bazaars, the Charsoo was the intersection of four paths, a golden point where voices intertwined, and where buyer and seller, conversation and transaction, gaze and choice, all converged upon a single stage. Today, as the Iranian art market stands amid crisis and political and social upheaval, we have sought to create a new foundation inspired by the logic of the traditional bazaar. Just as many international art fairs and major global events have turned to new methods of presentation and sale during times of recession, so too does Charsoo strive to bring together all such approaches into a coherent structure adapted to the present condition of Iranian art. In this way, Charsoo becomes a new and comprehensive path for structured engagement with the less-than-ideal realities of today—an endeavor that aims to function beyond mere display of artworks.

The Charsoo Group Exhibition, featuring a diverse selection of works by prominent Iranian artists, will open on Friday, September 5th (14 Shahrivar) at Artibition Gallery. This exhibition has been organized with the aim of presenting various strategies and methods of sales within Iran’s art scene, seeking to help the field rise again after recent crises. Throughout history, different global events have emphasized specific approaches to selling art, and now, this exhibition brings together all those paths in one place.

The book “Artistic Experience in Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology” by Nader Shayganfar is a work that, in fidelity to the thought of Maurice Merleau-Ponty—the prominent French phenomenological philosopher—examines the relationship between artistic experience and the horizons of phenomenology. The author shows that Merleau-Ponty does not regard modern art merely as a domain of aesthetics, but rather as a field in which being is disclosed and the relation between consciousness and the world is rethought.