Mohsen Vaziri Moghaddam | " 100 Years": Parallel Circuit

Parallel Circuit is proud to announce its participation in the program, “Mohsen Vaziri Moghaddam > 100 Years”, celebrating the 100th year since the birth of artist Mohsen Vaziri Moghaddam. The program, organized by Fondazione Mohsen Vaziri Moghaddam, takes form in numerous international events and exhibitions in collaboration with institutions and galleries, including Dastan. The exhibitions open on July 19 and will be on view until August 9, 2024. 

Parallel Circuit is showcasing a collection of paintings, silkscreen prints, and reliefs by Mohsen Vaziri Moghaddam from his "Haras va Parvaz" ("Fear and Flight") series dated as early as 1973 to a more recent work signed in 2015, three years before the artist passed away.

Atmospheric and cosmic themes are prominent in Vaziri Moghaddam’s art, particularly in his  "Haras va Parvaz" ("Fear and Flight") series. These works reflect a postmodern, even a post-cubist, three-dimensional visual style.

In his reliefs, Vaziri Moghaddam's vividly colored shapes, resembling bird-like, at times frightening forms, are crafted in wood and installed on a solid colored background. The same flying shapes that are mobile on the reliefs appear in his silkscreens and paintings almost bound within the frame.

Mohsen Vaziri Moghaddam (1924 – 2018) is acknowledged as a pioneer of Iranian abstractionism and a leading figure in developing contemporary Iranian art. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. He was also an educator, opening the way for many to-be artists to go beyond the limits of established ways. His "Drawing Method and Painting Guide" (1981) is a standard academic text today. 

He is widely recognized for works spanning five decades, from the painterly abstracts of the 1960s to the hard-edged geometry of the sculpted and painted aluminum wall reliefs of his later years. Vaziri's work is characterized by a restless experimentation of form through materials –deployed in his drawings, sand paintings, opto-kinetic sculptures, and painted aluminum wall reliefs.