Aziz Anzabi

AZIZ ANZABI:

From politics to poetics.

Between tradition and modernity: tapping into memorial exploration to nourish collective consciousness.



By placing interiority and personal experience at the service of political awareness, Aziz Anzabi relentlessly questions the means we have to rethink the world in order to relieve sentiments of suffering.



Experiencing Iran / Iraq War at an early age, Aziz Anzabi's encounters with iconic figures of Iranian contemporary art such as Bahman Moasses or modern poet Sohrab Sepehri radically impacted his vision. Embodying concepts of exile and oppression, Aziz Anzabi explores novel paths into the idea of free speech, shaping psychic surrealisms to awaken consciences to the violence of our over-standardized world.



“I want to mix tradition into contemporary art because I think that Qajar art is the only style that is solely Iranian, with its own unique framework and techniques”.



Navigating abstraction and figuration his works evokes a symbolic grammar, both biographical and collective. Anzabi's fantasized landscapes - his moving humans, his uncertain and distorted forms - are so personal that they become universal. They are in no way free from technology, quite t...

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30 October 2020 Artbox Barcelona
18 Jun 2020 Art save Humanity Seeme USA
17 January 2020 solo Sheiss gallery Iran Tehran
10 December 2019 solo Ehsan gallery Tehran Iran
10 December 2019 Art box Miami
1Nov 2019 Artlimited Exhibition winner France
15 August 2019 Art box Zurich
25 Aug 2019 Amsterdam International Art Fair
17 January 2020solo Sheiss gallery Iran Tehran
10 December 2019solo Ehsan gallery Tehran Iran
10 December 2019Art box Miami
22 November 2019solo Idea gallery Iran Tehran
15 August 2019Art box Zurich
25 Aug 2019Amsterdam International Art Fair
11 Nov 2015winner World Citizen Artists France
12 Jan 2015Mad recital spring or summer group exhibition USA
10 July 2015Emillion’s gallery group exhibition USA
18 June 2015Miami takes USA
16 Dec 2015Life in 4D exhibition Malaysia KLCC
10 Nov 2015Myartmakers group exhibition France
7 Dec 2014Human suffering when boys become men group exhibition - Harrison's fund London
3 Dec 2014Human suffering when boys become men group exhibition London
1 Oct 2014Human suffering at times of crisis group exhibition London
2 Dec 2014Scope art Miami USA
9 Dec 2014AAW Showcase group exhibition USA
18 Oct 2014Other Worlds group exhibition USA
9 Nov 2014JMV ar...