Alireza Mojabi

Alireza Mojabi (M. Azarfar)
Iranian Contemporary Artist

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 based in istanbul, turkiye
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Member of the International Association of Artists (IAA/AIAP), UNESCO

Member of the Turkish Visual Artists Association (UPSD)

Initiate of  drawing and painting during the mid-1980s under supervision of masters : "Vartges Asseriance" , "Kamran Kahnemoei", "Abbas Katouzian" , and "Morteza Momayez".

 
Teaching Background in art centers, art universities and his atolie since 1995.


 
The first visual criticism of genesis and evolution of modernism in Iranian art and literature – A program in which portraits of 54 Persian artists were painted considering their transition from tradition to modernity; and writing a book with more than 2000 pages containing interviews and criticisms about these artists, poets, and writers.  


Performing the first RANGAHANG performance -2013- Improvised canvas and piano duet by Alireza Mojabi and Honibal Yousef in front of more than 3000 spectators who watched an unprecedented intertextual dialogue.
 

Idea creator of intertextual interaction between painting and architecture on the ceiling of a well-known traditional Qajar house in Yazd (In-Progress)

Performing the second RANGA...

More than twenty-five years of teaching drawing and painting in Iranian universities and art centers, as well as in her own studio

Writing dozens of critical articles in the press and specialized magazines in the field of visual arts.

Dozens of lectures in the field of art research topics in Iranian art universities

1992 Solo exhibition - The Gallery of the Art and Literature School of Iran Broadcasting

1999 Solo exhibition - Barg Gallery, Tehran

2011 Solo exhibition - Ashian Naghsh o Mehr Gallery, Tehran

ISNA news agency reported it as the most visited individual exhibition after 1978 revolution

2013 Performance (Rangahang 1) improvised duet, painting and piano Tehran Museum of Contemporary Arts With the presence of more than three thousand spectators presence more

2015 Performance (Rangahong 2) imprvised duet of painting and Taar instrument, authentic Iranian music (Vahdat Hall, Tehran)

2017 Solo exhibition - The Iran Artists Forum, Tehran

2017 Improvised painting performance to support the homeless at Niavaran Cultural Center in Tehran

2018 Improvised creation of a painting on Lake Urmia in protest of the lake's drought and dehydration, Urmia

2021 Participating in the Istanbul Arts and Antiques fair (IAAF), Istanbul-Turkiye

2021 Participating in the Istanbul Art Contact fair, Istanbul-Turkiye

2023 Participating in the İstanbul Art and Antiques Fair, (IAAF), Istanbul-Turkiye

2024 Participating in the İstanbul Art and Antiques Fair, (IAAF), Istanbul-Turkiye

2024 Participating in the 6th Qatar International Art Festival (QIAF), Do...