London to showcase Iranian artwork

London's Waterhouse & Dodd is planning to display works by 12 Iranian artists in an exhibition of Middle Eastern and Arab art.

Routes II, to be held from October 7 to 23, will showcase some 48 works by 16 aspiring and veteran artists.

Parviz tanavoli, Iman Afsarian, Samira Alikhanzadeh, Afshin Pirhashemi, Khosrow Hasanzadeh, Farhad Moshiri, Shirin Neshat, Sadeq Tirafkan, Reza Derakhshani, Mohammad Ehsai, shadi Qadirian and Ala Ebtekar will represent Iranian art at the event.

Routes II will also showcase works by Ece Clarke (Turkey), Lalla Essaydi (Morocco), Nja Mahdaoui (Tunisia) and Youssef Nabil (Egypt).

The event will be the second edition of Waterhouse & Dodd's contemporary Middle Eastern & Arab art exhibition series.

The first of the annual Routes series, held last year, presented works by some 15 sculptors, photographers, printmakers and painters originally from the Middle East and the Arab world.

Iranian artists represented in Routes I included Parviz Tanavoli, Charles Hossein Zenderoudi, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmian, Farhad Moshiri, among others.