Restoration of banned "Fifer Man" cancelled
“The statue will be kept at the treasury of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMCA) and we have no plans for its restoration,” office director and TMCA curator Mahmud Shaluii told the Persian service of MNA on Saturday.
“It will be kept at the place in its existing shape; perhaps it will be restored at some point in the future,” he added.
According to former curator Habibollah Sadeqi, TMCA planned to restore the statue in order to reinstall the artwork at the yard of TMCA by the end of the Iranian calendar year -- March 20, 2009.
The 4-meter high statue was created by the prominent Iranian sculptor Bahman Mohasses in 1975 by order of the City Theater Complex director and was installed in front of the complex.
After the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979, it was removed from the site because it was deemed as contrary to the revolution’s criteria due to its unique shape...
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“It will be kept at the place in its existing shape; perhaps it will be restored at some point in the future,” he added.
According to former curator Habibollah Sadeqi, TMCA planned to restore the statue in order to reinstall the artwork at the yard of TMCA by the end of the Iranian calendar year -- March 20, 2009.
The 4-meter high statue was created by the prominent Iranian sculptor Bahman Mohasses in 1975 by order of the City Theater Complex director and was installed in front of the complex.
After the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979, it was removed from the site because it was deemed as contrary to the revolution’s criteria due to its unique shape...