AZIZ ART February 2018
Massoud Arabshahi
Sadegh Tabrizi Vincent Abadie Hafez
Tony Cragg
1.Sadegh Tabrizi 5.Tony Cragg 11.competition 12.Massoud Arabshahi 16.Vincent Abadie Hafez 19.competition
Director: Aziz Anzabi Editor : Nafiseh Yaghoubi Translator : Asra Yaghoubi Research: Zohreh Nazari
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Sadegh Tabrizi
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Sadegh Tabrizi was born in 1939, Tehran, Iran - 2018 pass away in London . He studied miniature painting at secondary school after which he worked in the ceramic workshop of the Administrative Office of Fine Arts. He then enrolled at the newly formed College of Decorative Arts in Tehran, studying with fellow artists Massoud Arabshahi (who he held a joint exhibition with, in 1961 at the France Club), Faramarz Pilaram, Mansour Ghandriz, and Hossein Zenderoudi. During that time, Tabrizi had access to the College's library and was encouraged to explore the visual culture of Iran's past as a source of inspiration. Graduating in 1964, he continued his studies with an MA in interior design.
As a result of Tabrizi’s contemporary reinterpretation of folk art, traditional Persian miniatures and Qajar painting, he was soon linked to the ‘Saqqakhaneh School’, a group of artists that worked individually but were united in their exploration of Persian heritage as a key source of inspiration (other artists thought to have pioneered this approach include Parviz Tanavoli, Pilaram, Arabashahi and Zenderoudi). Tabrizi focused on creating calligraphic compositions, an important aspect of the ‘Saqqakhaneh’ trend, since 1970.
From the early 1960s to 2008, Tabrizi has participated in numerous group exhibitions in the Middle East, Europe, Asia, US and Australia.
Solo Exhibition:
1965 Two Solo Exhibition (Tabrizi - Arabshahi) 1970 Burgese Gallery - Tehran - Iran 1972 Seyhoun Gallery - Tehran - Iran 1972 Bengston Gallery - Stockholm - Sweden 1972 Sirous Gallery - Paris - France 1982 Restigush Gallery - Canada 1992 Columbia University - New York - USA 1992 Beverley Hilton Hotel - Los Angeles - USA 1992 Tea Room - California - USA 1995 Seyhoun Gallery - Tehran - Iran 2008 Mah Gallery - Tehran Group Exhibition: 1962 Abby Grey Foundation - Minnesota - USA 1962 Club des Amis de Instruction Francaise - Tehran - Iran 1962 International Ceramic Exhibition - Prague - Czechoslovakia 1964 Talar-e Iran - Tehran - Iran 1965 Tehran University - Tehran - Iran 1965 Burgese Gallery - Tehran - Iran 1965 Iran-American Society - Tehran - Iran 1966 Seyhoun Gallery - Tehran - Iran 1967 International Art Exhibition - Basel - Switzerland 1968 Columbia University - New York - USA 1971 Sirous Gallery - Paris - France 1974 International Art Exhibition - Tehran - Iran 1977 Art Fearra - Bologna - Italy 1978 Contemporary Art Museum - Tehran - Iran 1978 International Art Exhibition - Basel - Switzerland 1990 Hill Gallery - London - England
1991 International Art Exhibition, Contemporary Art Museum - Marsala - Italy 1997 China Art Expo - Beiging - China 1999 China Art Expo - Beiging - China 2000 Melbourn Art Expo - Melbourn - Australia 2000 Manhatan Soho - New York - USA 2000 East and West Art - Melbourn - Australia 2001 ARTSingapore2001 - Singapore 2003 Sydney Art Fair - Australia 2004 ARTSingapore - Singapore 2008 Galleries Artitude - Paris - France 2008 Creek Art Fair - Dubai
Tony Cragg
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Early life and training Tony Cragg's early work involved site-specific installations of found objects and discarded materials.From the mid-1970s through to the early 1980s he presented assemblages in primary structures (as in his first mature piece, the 1975 Stack) as well as in colourful, representational reliefs on the floors and walls of gallery spaces (as in Red Indian of 1982-3). Cragg constructed these early works by systematically arranging individual fragments of mixed materials, often according to their artificial colours and profiles, so as to form larger images.
constructed these early works by systematically arranging individual fragments of mixed materials, often according to their artificial colours and profiles, so as to form larger images.
Britain Seen from the North (1981) is a signature early work, made of multi-coloured scraps of various materials assembled in relief on the wall. The piece depicts the outline of the island of Great Britain, orientated sideways so that Northern Britain is positioned to the left. The island is scrutinized by a figure, representing Cragg himself, who looks at his native country from the position of an outsider. Britain Seen from the North (1981) is often interpreted as Career commenting on the social and Tony Cragg's early work involved economic difficulties that Britain site-specific installations of found was facing under ‘Thatcherism’, objects and discarded materials. which had particular effect in the From the mid-1970s through to north.This work was first exhibited the early 1980s he presented in the large upstairs space at the assemblages in primary structures Whitechapel Art gallery in London (as in his first mature piece, the in 1981 and is now in the Tate 1975 Stack)as well as in colourful, collection. representational reliefs on the floors and walls of gallery spaces (as in Red Indian of 1982-3).Cragg
After moving to Germany in the (1981); Institute of Contemporary late 1977 Cragg had several solo Art, London (1982); Documenta 7, exhibitions including Lisson Gallery, Kassel (1982) and the Hayward and London (1979); Lützozstr. Situation, Serpentine Galleries, London Berlin (1979) and Künstlerhaus (1983). Since then Cragg has Weidenallee, Hamburg (1979).He exhibited extensively at many of also exhibited in seminal group world's most important art shows including the Silver Jubilee institutions. By the end of the Sculpture Show, Battersea Park, decade Cragg received the Turner London (1977); Europa-Kunst der Price at the Tate Gallery in London 80er Jahre, Stuttgart (1979); Kunst (1988), represented Britain at the in Europa na '68, Museum van 42. Venice Biennale (1988) and was Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent (1980) appointed Professor at the and Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (1988L'art degli anni Settanta/Aperto 2001). '80, Venice Biennale (1980). Throughout the 1990s Cragg In the early-1980s Cragg gradually continued to develop two larger moved away from installation art groups of work that have sustained and began to examine more his production up to the present: closely the individual objects used the Early Forms and the Rational as parts of his larger constellations. Beings. The Early Forms series This was the beginning of his investigate the possibilities of engagement and experimentation manipulating everyday, familiar with the properties and containers and the ways in which possibilities of a wide range of they can morph into and around more permanent materials in the one another in space.These form of wood, plaster, stone, sculptures derive their profiles and fiberglass, Kevlar, stainless steel, contours from simple, tick-walled cast iron and bronze.In the early vessels– such as chemistry vessels, 1980s Cragg exhibited at Arnolfini plastic bottles and mortars. The Gallery, Bristol (1980);Whitechapel surfaces of these initial objects are Art Gallery, London (1980); extended and contorted until new, Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal
sculpturally independent forms of movement arise. Through these processes of manipulation the initial objects develop new lines and contours, positive and negatively curving surfaces and volumes, protrusions and deep recessing folds. The broad field of containers and vessels used function as metaphors for cell, organ, organism or body. The Early Forms can be characterized as forms transmutating along a bilaterally curved axis, often with organic, even figurative, qualities. The Rational Beings are describable as organic looking forms often made of carbon fibre on a core of polystyrene. These sculptures derive their forms from the contours of gestural drawings, which Cragg then translates into the third dimension using thick, circular or oval discswhich are superimposed (often vertically), glued together and covered with a skin.The underlying structure of these sculptures gives their skin the tension of a membrane, reflecting the basic structures of many organisms, organs, plants and animals.
In the early 1990s, Cragg was awarded the Chevalier des Arts Lettres (1992) and appointed Royal Academician in London (1994).During this decade of his career he exhibited at the 45. Venice Biennale (1993); the "Terrae Motus" collection at the Royal Palace of Caserta, Italy (1994); The National Gallery, Prague (1995); MNAM, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (1996); MACBA, Barcelona (1997) and the Royal Academy, London (1999).In the early 2000s Cragg was awarded the Shakespeare Prize (2001) and the Piepenbrock Prize for Sculptures (2002).He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) (2002), Honorary Doctor of the Royal College of Art, London (2009), Professor at the Universitüt der Künste, Berlin (2001-2006), and began a Professorship at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (2006).Among many major solo shows, Cragg exhibited at Tate Gallery Liverpool (2000); MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome (2003); and The Central House of Artists, Moscow (2005).
Since 2010, Cragg has been appointed Honorary Fellow of University of the Arts London (2012); awarded Artist's Medal of Honor of the Hermitage, Russia(2012) as. well as the 1st Class Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2012).He has exhibited at the MusÊe du Louvre in Paris (2011), the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh (2011) and at CAFA Museum in Beijing (2012).Amongst new developments in Cragg's work is an increase in sculptures that can be exhibited outdoors; more works wrought from bronze, steel, stone, wood and glass; as well as a vigorous return to his initial interest in art – that of drawing. Recognition Cragg was selected to represent Britain at the 43rd Venice Biennale in 1988, and won the Turner Prize in the same year. In 2001 he received the now discontinued Shakespeare Prize of the Alfred Toepfer Foundation of Hamburg. He was made a CBE for services to art in the 2002 New Year Honours List,and also won the Piepenbrock Prize for Sculpture in that year. In 2007 he received the Praemium Imperiale for sculpture of the Imperial House of Japan for the Japan Art Association.
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Massoud Arabshahi
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Massoud Arabshahi born Tehran, Iran in 1935 is an Iranian painter. Arabshahi held his first solo exhibition at the Iran-India Centre, Tehran, in 1964, four years before graduating from the College of Decorative Arts, Tehran. His work includes oils on canvas, sculptures and architectural reliefs- among the latter commissions for the Office for Industry and Mining, Tehran, 1971, and the California Insurance Building, Santa Rosa, California, USA, 1985.
His sources of inspiration comprise Achaemenid and Assyrian art as well as Babylonian carvings and inscriptions. Combining tradition and modernity. His work has been shown in a
number of solo and group exhibitions in Iran, Europe and the United States including Two Modernist Iranian Pioneers, at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, 2001; and Iranian Contemporary Art, Barbican Centre, London, 2001. He lives and works in Tehran and California. Prizes 1964, Ministry of Arts and Culture Prize, 4th Tehran Biennial 1965, Mother's Day Exhibition Prize, Tehran 1972, First Prize, Public contest for sculpture ornament at the Farahabad Park, Tehran 1973, First Prize, Monaco International Exhibition
Exhibitions 1964, Tehran, Iran, India Artistic Center 1965, Tehran, Iran, Tehran University 1965, Paris, France, Biennial 1967, Paris, France, Galerie Solstice 1967, Paris, France, Museum of Sacred Arts 1968, U.S.A, Mobile Exhibition of Contemporary Iranian Arts 1970, Tehran, Iran, Modern Iranian Art: a Retrospective, Iran American Society 1971, Tehran, Iran, Negar Gallery 1973, Paris, France, Grand Palais 1973, Paris, France, Galerie Guiot 1973, Monaco, France, Monaco International Exhibition, Monte Carlo 1974, Tehran, Iran, International Exhibition of Arts 1975, Tehran, Iran, Blue, Takhte Jamshid Gallery 1975, Tehran, Iran, Volume and Environment, Iran America Society
Vincent Abadie Hafez also known as Zepha is a French contemporary artist whose work is strongly inspired by traditional and contemporary Arabic calligraphy. He is widely known for his highly ornamental and completely stunning artworks. Famous for employing a wide variety of mediums and techniques, he tries to bring entirely separate worlds together in his work, to merge the ancient with the new, to bring the East closer to the West. Urban Jealousy for Art Azoï Vincent Abadie Hafez aka Zepha Urban Jealousy - Paris - 2014 video geladen Vincent Abadie Hafez aka Zepha – Urban Jealousy, mural for Art Azoï, Paris, 2014 Born in Paris in 1977, he became active in the graffiti and street art scene working under the pseudonym Zepha in the late 1980s. His long-lasting, continuous and engaged involvement in the graffiti movement has allowed him to work in depth on the subversion and stylization of the Latin alphabet. He has developed his own unique
style on the edge between the graffiti and calligraphy and a world in which cross the craftsmanship of ancient civilizations, the movement Figuration, Abstraction lyrical and street art. Brave and open mind, his artistic production evolves by borrowing diverse ways most of the time through not beaten paths at the crossroads of two worlds, ancient and modern. Contrasts and complementarity are his driving force, visible in every aspect of his work, from the choice of medium or technique (he dabbles in street art, while also painting on canvas, his works include calligraphy, murals, etching and engraving…) to the themes of his pieces, in which he tries to bring peace to the chaos of opposing ideas. The gesture intrinsic to the aerosol technique and the energy of calligraphic gestures led him to live creativity as a process, not only as a goal. Zepha’s art is accessible to all, and poses questions fundamental to every human – he reminds us of our beginnings, questions the consequences of our actions, both as individuals and on a global scale, and rebels against over17 urbanization.
Street Art Invasion Vincent Abadie Hafez has Vincent Abadie Hafez aka Zepha - participated in many exhibitions Roots and letters - group show and art festival worldwide, Street Art Invasion at Cargy, France including in France, Germany, - geladen - 2013 Morocco, Spain, Liban, Switzerland, Vincent Abadie Hafez aka Zepha – Qatar and Tunisia. Roots and letters, group show In May 2015, his art was included in Street Art Invasion at Cargy, France group show Concrete Alphabets at His work has been featured in 886 Geary Gallery in San Francisco. Arabic Graffiti, a book by Don Stone Karl and Pascal Zoghbi, which He is represented by BC Gallery in presents the beautiful fusion of Berlin, Germany and David Bloch traditional Arabic calligraphy styles Gallery in Marrakech, Morocco. and modern graffiti techniques. Amongst Zepha, the book includes the artwork and thoughts of Hassan Massoudy, eL Seed, L’ATLAS, Typism, and many more.
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