Mohsen Vaziri Moghaddam | "100 Years": +2 [Fereshteh]

+2 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. 

+2 Fereshteh Venue is showcasing a series of archival images, videos, and a timeline gathered by the Fondazione Mohsen Vaziri Moghaddam highlighting the artist’s prolific career. 

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.