TEHRAN – Tehran’s Fravahar Gallery will be holding a retrospective of Iranian contemporary artist Mohsen Vaziri-Moqaddam opening today.

 

A selection of old and new works by the master will go on show, while five other artists will also be hanging their works in honor of Vaziri-Moqaddam, the Persian service of ISNA reported on Tuesday.

 

Babak Etminani, Hadi Jamali, Reza Hosseini, Reza Khodadadi, and Homayun Salimi are the five artists displaying their works.

 

A question and answer panel is also arranged on May 23, in which the artists will be answering the questions posed by the visitors.

 

The exhibit will be running until May 30 at the gallery located at No.2, Golestan St., off Africa Blvd.

 

The Italy-based artist Vaziri-Moqaddam received Europe’s Artist of the Year 2005 award.

 

Mohsen Vaziri-Moqaddam was born on May 26, 1924 in Tehran. In primary school, he was fond of geography and music. He continued his education at the University of Tehran’s Faculty of Fine Arts. In 1955, he set off for Italy, where he studied at the Rome Academy of Fine Arts.

 

He showed an inclination toward sculpture in the late 1960s, which was the most significant part of his life. His unique sculptures during this period, which transferred the sense of touch to visual lines, were unparalleled in Italy.

 

In his career, Vaziri-Moqaddam has created most of his abstract forms and designs using the media of sand, metal, plastic and wood.

 

He has so far held several exhibits in Iran and across the world.

 

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