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Art Community, Social Movements: A series of conversations: Hamidreza Sheshjavani
30 March 2023
The economy of art and the mechanism of the art market in Iran, in its modern sense, has come to life from new issues, which of course is faced with a thousand buts and ifs and more importantly, with thousands of concealments and lack of clear information that arise from the same ancient and traditional mechanism. To these conditions, we must add the crises that regularly interrupt and seriously injure these newly revived topics, including Corona Pandemic and the new social and political conditions resulting from the 1401 movement, which we all know is more important than any economic sector in Iran, art and especially Visual arts have been closed and the flow of the art economy has made it face an unprecedented risk.
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