TEHRAN – An exhibition of works by Iranian veteran painter Bahram Dabiri will be held at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMoCA) from November 10th to December 16th.
IRNA reports that the exhibition, titled “Things for the Future,” looks back on Dabiri’s 50 years of artistic activity and displays a collection of works by famous artists donated to the museum’s treasury.
The exhibition will feature over 65 works from different periods of Dabiri’s career, including themes such as mythology, love and violence.
In his work, Dabiri, 74, emphasizes the simplicity of shapes and the use of expressive lines, creating figures, especially women, animals, and symbols taken from mythological stories.
As a child, Dabiri became fascinated with Iranian mythology. One of his fondest memories of those days is listening to the Shahnameh stories that his mother read to him on various occasions.
He graduated in painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts at Tehran University. During his nearly 55 years of artistic practice, Dabiri has held more than 70 solo and group exhibitions in Iran, Ukraine, Spain, Germany, and the United States.
Dabiri’s work has been exhibited at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, the French Embassy in Tehran, Art Expo New York 2000, and the Bernak Gallery in Bremen, Germany.
Dabiri is committed to both modernism and tradition. His works are stories that combine his fundamental beliefs with the language of life and contemporary painting to express the concepts in his mind.
He has his own narrative and symbolic style, methods and standards, depicting the world at times delicately and poetically, at times violently and horrifyingly. Nevertheless, he does not continue with the outdated beliefs of his predecessors. In both cases, he creates beautiful scenes.
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