Within the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central and Later South Asia is a permanent collection of contemporary Iranian art, featuring seven works of art by six renowned contemporary Iranian artists.
Parviz Tanavoli’s sculpture, “Poet Turning Into Heech” (), is one of the central works within this collection. In a phone interview from Tehran, Tanavoli spoke about the symbolism of Heech in his artwork and the role of the poet as philosopher in modern-day society…
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