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Bobak Etminani, Toronto, January 2008
Canadian Art Editor Richard Rhodes interviews Iranian artist Bobak Etminani in Toronto, January 11, 2008.
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It was an unlikely venue for top-notch abstract painting—a wood-panelled basement rec room on the northern edge of Toronto—and an unlikely artist too: Bobak Etminani from Tehran. The visit to the basement was prompted by a phone call a month earlier: “Hello, I am a visiting artist from Iran. Is it possible to drop by your office and show you some of my work?”
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