Lili Golestan

Lili Golestan in her gallery (2007), photo: Masih Azarakhsh

Lili Golestan Taghavi Shirazi ( Farsi لیلی گلستان, born July 14, 1944 in Tehran ) is an Iranian translator in, author in, art collector in and curator in. She is the owner in the Golestan Gallery in Tehran.

Life

Lili with her brother, Kaveh Golestan (1970)

Lili Golestan grew up in Tehran and spent some very formative years in Abadan , where her father, the filmmaker and writer Ebrahim Golestan, worked. Her mother is Fakhri Golestan, Ebrahim's cousin. Photo reporter Kaveh Golestan, who was killed in a land mine in 2003, is her brother.

Her parents' house was considered a meeting place for artists and intellectuals, so she was familiar with art and literature from an early age.

In 1968 she married the filmmaker Nemat Haghighi, from whom she separated in 1974, after only six years of marriage. The couple has three children: their daughter Dr. Sanam Haghighi, who now works as a lawyer, Mahmud Haghighi and the filmmaker Mani Haghighi . Lili Golestan raised the children alone after the separation.

Artistic career

After graduating from high school, Lili Golestan went to Paris and studied costume and textile design at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs while attending lectures on art history and French literature at the Sorbonne . Four years later she returned to Iran and took a job as a textile designer at the Moghaddam textile factory.

A short time afterwards, around 1962, she worked as a costume designer for TV production companies and the Iranian state television . She has also directed several children's programs. After seven years, in 1969, she gave up her career in television and published her first translation of the novel in Farsi, Nothing and Amen (Niente e così sia) by Oriana Fallaci .

Since then she has been translating from French, and occasionally from Italian, Spanish and Greek. Genres include novels, biographies, and poetry.

From 1981 to 1987 Lili Golestan ran a bookstore in Tehran, Ketab-e-Iran , which she transformed into the Golestan Gallery in 1988 . The gallery is now considered to be the oldest still existing art gallery in Tehran. In particular, it pursues the objective of discovering and promoting young Iranian artists and giving them a platform to sell their art.

Lili Golestan has repeatedly spoken out publicly against censorship in art and literature.

Awards

On November 17, 2014, she was honored by the French ambassador to Iran, Bruno Foucher, for her translation work, especially of French-speaking authors, with France's highest award for special services to education, the Ordre des Palmes Académiques .

Translations

• Andrew Andry: Where do the young children come (How Babies are Made)
• Oriana Fallaci: Nothing and Amen (Niente e so sia)
• The Strange Story of Spermato
• Eugène Ionesco: Stories for Children Under Three. 3. Story number 3 (Conte 3 pour enfants de moins de 3 ans)
• Christopher Frank: Mortelle
• Maurice Druon: Tistou with the green thumb (Tistou les pouces verts)
• Two pieces from ancient China
• Sohrab Sepehri Poet - Painter
• Gabriel García Márquez : Chronicle of a death foretold (Crónica de una muerte anunciada)
• Miguel Ángel Asturias : El Hombre Que Lo Tenia Todo Todo Todo
• Gabriel García Márquez: The smell of the guayava: Conversations with Plinio Apuleya Mendoza (El olor de la Guayaba. Conversaciones con Gabriel García Márquez)
• Giannis Ritsos : Hellenism
• Romain Gary : L'homme à la colombe
• Leonardo da Vinci Stories and Myths
• Jean Giraudoux : Undine (Ondine)
• Italo Calvino : When a traveler on a winter night (Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore)
• Hekayat-e Hal (The Story of My Condition Now), a long interview with Ahmad Mahmoud
• Italo Calvino: Six suggestions for the next millennium: Harvard lectures (Lezioni americane: Sei proposte per il prossimo millennio)
• A two-volume book about Ali Hatami and his work
• Interview with Marcel Duchamp , Pierre Cabanne
• Ludwig Wittgenstein : Remarks on Colors (Remarks on Color)
• Françoise Gilot : Life with Picasso (Life with Picasso)
• David Hockney : Picasso
• Sean Scully : Mark Rothko. Corps de lumière
• Van Gogh, Gauguin
• Marcel Duchamp talks about readymades

Publications as an author

• Majmooaye Honarhaye Tajasomi Moaser
• (2019) Lili Golestan's Private Collection
• The Oral History of Iran's Contemporary Art

Related Links

Commons : Leyli Golestan  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Lili Golestan in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Official website of the Golestan Gallery
• Photo by Lili Golestan in the Golestan Gallery
• Tehran Roundtable . In: bidoun.org. Interview with Lili Golestan, among others, about contemporary Iranian art
• Book lunch “Blade, warp and weft, conversation between Lili Golestan & Neda Razavipour” on vimeo.com from 2009 (published in 2016).

Individual evidence

1. ^ About Golestan Gallery and Tanin Technology. Retrieved September 14, 2019 . 
2. ↑ RM / MMS / YAW: Veteran curator Lili Golestan publishes her private collection. In: www.tehrantimes.com. January 20, 2019, accessed September 14, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Ann-Christin Schubert: Suppression has never been a barrier for Iranian translator and gallerist Lili Golestan. In: freundevonfreunden.com. June 10, 2019, accessed September 14, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Dr. Sanam S. Haghighi - Contributing Authors - About - OGEL Journal (Oil, Gas & Energy Law Intelligence) - Global Energy Law & Regulation Portal. Retrieved September 14, 2019 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b} Lili Golestan. In: womenrightful.com. January 11, 2019, accessed on September 14, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Lilli Golestan: I Wanted it, I Made it Happen. In: tedxtehran.com. Retrieved September 14, 2019 . 
7. ↑ LiTTeam: Annual '100 works, 100 artists' exhibition at Golestan Gallery. In: livingintehran.com. August 3, 2019, accessed on September 14, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Jashar Erfanian: Successes despite restrictions for cultural workers . In: http://iranjournal.org . Transparency for Iran, August 1, 2016, accessed September 14, 2019 . 
9. ^ Iranian Lili Golestan received France's Order of Academic Palms. In: theotheriran.com. November 21, 2014, accessed September 14, 2019 . 
10. ^ "100 Works, 100 Artists" Exhibition at Golestan Gallery. In: financialtribune.com. Retrieved July 28, 2018 .