Dastan is pleased to announce its participation at
Art Basel Hong Kong 2024. At Booth
3D25, Insights Sector, Dastan features a solo presentation of works by the late artist
Mohsen Vaziri Moghaddam (1924 – 2018). This marks Dastan’s second presence at the fair. The year 2024 marks one hundred years since the artist's birth. Fondazione Vaziri Moghaddam has programmed numerous international events and exhibitions titled Centenary Project in collaboration with several institutions and galleries, including Dastan. Art Basel Hong Kong will be open to public viewing from
March 28 to 30, 2024, at the
Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre.
Mohsen Vaziri Moghaddam (1924 – 2018) is acknowledged as a pioneer of Iranian abstractionism and a leading figure in developing modernist approaches and 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 gobeyond the limits of established ways. His "Drawing Method and Painting Guide" (1981) is today's standard academic text.
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. Vaziri’s work is characterized by a restless experimentation of form through materials deployed in his drawings, sand paintings, optokinetic sculptures, and painted aluminum wall reliefs. Vaziri Moghaddam’s work was presented at the Venice Biennial several times over his lifetime and acquired by prestigious institutions and collections such as the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York and the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMoCA).
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