unosolo, la project room di 1/9 unosunove, è lieta di annunciare la prima mostra personale in Italia dell’artista newyorkese Amir Mogharabi (1982, Shiraz).


At first I wanted to create four languages. Actually, four large paintings. The number four came to mind, immediately. I wanted them to be grand, triangular, and top heavy. Facing the ground. Grand and facing the ground.

I had a small picture of the vacant space. I imagined, too, something small in the center of it. Something small and delicate, made from, or with, something transparent.

From or with.
Either or.

Possibly glass. Coupled with another element, an element already crafted by hand. Already used by hands. Possibly broken.

The intersection of the two objects, still indeterminate.

One invented geometry, figural or literal, allowing them to support one another, simultaneously.

A knife, for instance, could sit with an ivory handle, and a broken tip, across from a glass rotary, or even on opposite sides of the same wall, fabricated for the center of the space.

Making the room now behind it, inaccessible.

Except, maybe, through the window. From outside, in the adjacent garden, where there is a pre-existing sculpture of a woman, of a woman’s head, of her face, and her features, in particular her eyes. They would also be looking in.

Being as it is, that her outline was made in the image of her original.

Facing forward.
Toward you and me.
From outside, in the garden.
She, made of stone, and enframed by stone.
Set in the building, across the garden, with its facade towards the interior.
She, made of stone, and enframed by stone
Toward you and me.
Facing forward.


And then I found an ‘inventory’ while reading Jacques Prevert:


Une pierre
Deux Maisons
Trois ruines
Quatre fossoyeurs
Un jardin
Un minute de silence






In linea con il significato che il numero 11 riveste nella riflessione teorica ed artistica di Amir Mogharabi e con l’importanza della componente performativa del suo lavoro la preparazione di Interior 01⎜11⎜10 avrà inizio il giorno 11 gennaio 2010. Ogni giorno l’artista porterà avanti l’allestimento della mostra realizzando i lavori direttamente in galleria e incontrando alcune persone (artisti, curatori, scrittori) invitate a interagire con il processo installativo attraverso discussioni sul lavoro svolto giorno per giorno. Tale confronto rappresenterà un contributo fondamentale e necessario per il risultato stesso della presentazione finale prevista per il 14 gennaio alle ore 19.


Laureato in filosofia, autore ed editore della pubblicazione multidisciplinare Farimani, Amir Mogharabi enfatizza l’effimeralità e la non localizzabilità, rifiutando la precisione in qualsiasi tipo di spiegazione. Una miriade di riferimenti nelle sue opere suggeriscono il disinteresse nei confronti di una definizione fissa, determinata, ma un costante invito ad un discorso sempre aperto, attraverso elementi che raramente conducono ad una risposta, ma che al contrario sollevano altre domande.
Né filosofia né poesia, il lavoro di Mogharabi non intende recuperare le fondamenta degli oggetti dei suoi studi, ma esplorare i loro effetti nella molteplicità delle loro relazioni immateriali. Una sorta di critica poetica, che muove il linguaggio dalla letteratura verso l’arte per rivelare i limiti della parola stessa.


Tra le precedenti mostre e performance ricordiamo Cursed by an Original Will con Stefan Tcherepnin, Lisa Cooley, NY, USA; Conjectural End of Human History con the Silver Apples, The Kitchen, NY, USA; Performance for Monochrome with a Hole con Jeffrey Perkins, Daniel Reich Gallery, NY, USA; Discourse on Hysteria con Clarina Bezzolauna, una serie di performance presso la Emily Harvey Foundation, Discussion Around a Stone, X Initiative, NY, USA; The Obstacle is Tautology, Front Desk Apparatus, NY, USA.



La mostra proseguirà fino a sabato 13 febbraio 2010.


unosolo, the project room of 1/9 unosunove, is delighted to present the first solo show in Italy by New York artist Amir Mogharabi (b.1982, Shiraz).


At first I wanted to create four languages. Actually, four large paintings. The number four came to mind, immediately. I wanted them to be grand, triangular, and top heavy. Facing the ground. Grand and facing the ground.

I had a small picture of the vacant space. I imagined, too, something small in the center of it. Something small and delicate, made from, or with, something transparent.

From or with.
Either or.

Possibly glass. Coupled with another element, an element already crafted by hand. Already used by hands. Possibly broken.

The intersection of the two objects, still indeterminate.

One invented geometry, figural or literal, allowing them to support one another, simultaneously.

A knife, for instance, could sit with an ivory handle, and a broken tip, across from a glass rotary, or even on opposite sides of the same wall, fabricated for the center of the space.

Making the room now behind it, inaccessible.

Except, maybe, through the window. From outside, in the adjacent garden, where there is a pre-existing sculpture of a woman, of a woman’s head, of her face, and her features, in particular her eyes. They would also be looking in.

Being as it is, that her outline was made in the image of her original.

Facing forward.
Toward you and me.
From outside, in the garden.
She, made of stone, and enframed by stone.
Set in the building, across the garden, with its facade towards the interior.
She, made of stone, and enframed by stone.
Toward you and me.
Facing forward.


And then I found an ‘inventory’ while reading Jacques Prevert:


Une pierre
Deux Maisons
Trois ruines
Quatre fossoyeurs
Un jardin
Un minute de silence







Considering the importance that number 11 has in the theoric and artistic research of Amir Mogharabi and the performative component of his work, the preparations of Interior 01⎜11⎜10 will start on January 11th 2010. Every day the artist will keep installing the show, producing the works directly at the gallery and meeting artists, curators, writers who will be invited to interact with this creative process through discussions and conversations which will represent a fundamental and necessary contribution for the final presentation of January 14th at 7pm.

Artist-theorist and founding editor of the interdisciplinary publication Farimani, Amir Mogharabi emphasizes ephemerality and non-localizability, refuting exactitude in explanation. A myriad of references hint at a disdain for indexicality and fixed definition, but a constant and gentle invitation into an open-ended discourse is brought by what appears to be analogous elements that rarely lands at an answer, but raises further question as to why.
Neither philosopy nor poetry Amir’s work does not seek to recuperate the foundation in his objects of study, but explore their effects in the collective manifold of immaterial relationships. A sort of poetic criticism which moves language away from literature and into art, in order to reveal the limits of words themselves.

Past exhibitions and performances have included Cursed by an Original Will, with Stefan Tcherepnin, Lisa Cooley, NY, USA; Conjectural End of Human History, with the Silver Apples, The Kitchen, NY, USA; Performance for Monochrome with a Hole, with Jeffrey Perkins, Daniel Reich Gallery, NY, USA; Discourse on Hysteria, with Clarina Bezzola, a series of performances at the Emily Harvey Foundation, NY, USA; Discussion around a Stone, X Initiative, NY, USA; The Obstacle is Tautology, Front Desk Apparatus, NY, USA.




The exhibition will be on view until February 13rd, 2010.