"Pattern Migration is an exceptional opportunity to connect with our community partners through the Art Gallery ofMississauga. Together, we have created programming that will enhance our guests’ shopping experience, and introduce them to up-and-coming and internationally acclaimed artists."-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-Toni Holley, Marketing Director
Oxford Properties
Group, Square One Shopping Centre
[Photo By: [KPA]
While inhabitants of western society are busy out shopping, they are oblivious of the anti-Christ that is funneling its way into their lives.
I took the photo above in Mississauga's Square One Shopping Centre's Holt Renfrew department store about six months ago in the section which is referred to as the Luxury Wing.
Right in front of the store's entrance, in the corridor, the Art Gallery of Mississauga teamed up with Square One to display art as part of its satellite exhibition program. On display are a series of photo-manipulated prints from the AGM's 2016 Pattern Migration exhibition, which was going on at the AGM at the same time. The AGM exhibit was from July 14 - September 11, 2016, while the display at Square One is still going on.
The images are:
...digital photo collages [which Mazinani creates] using her own photographs and found images...her Persian Architecture series was created from photographs of the intricate tilework in mosques in Iran. The AGM has invited Mazinani to create a new artwork inspired by this exhibition in partnership with the communities of Mississauga! To do this she will photograph patterned ceramic objects provided by the community, and create a new collage from the images.Sanaz Mazinani, carefully and intelligently, presents to us her grand Persian imagery, acculturating us to her world of Islam. The AGM curators are not wedded to Islam. They present us with a smorgasbord of religious/spiritual art, even occasionally Christian ones.
Their intention really is to show us the wonderfully diverse population that now lives in Mississauga, and to help us museum-goers appreciate their backgrounds and origins. The curators' generosity knows no bounds, except when it comes to Christian art and Canadian culture. Do they think that other cultures and religions will so readily step aside, in the same spirit of generosity?
From Sanaz Mazinani's Works on Paper collection
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Pattern Migrations' curator Kendra Ainsworth,
who now holds the title of Curator of Contemporary Art,
photographed here with the artist Sanaz Mazinani
at the exhibition's opening reception on July 14, 2016
The work on display in the background is
Mazinani’s “Golestan Palace Tiles”
from her Persian Architecture series
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Pattern Migrations exhibition at the Art Gallery of Mississauga
Left wall:
Diyan Achjadi
Java Toile, 2015
Toner print on Tyvek
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Floor:
Soheila Esfahani
The Immigrants, 2016
Hand-built and found porcelain
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Back and right walls:
Images left to right:
Golestan Palace Tiles, Tehran, Iran (1865/2014)
Archival Pigment Print (ed. 1 of 3)
Printed in 2016
Iwan of Imamzadeh Mahruq at the tomb of Omar Khayyam
Neyshapour, Iran, 17th c./2013
Archival Pigment Print (ed. 1 of 3)
Masjed-Jame mosaic, Isfahan, Iran, 841/2016
Archival Pigment Print (ed. 1 of 3)
Printed in 2016
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[Photo By: [KPA]