Azim Morakabatchi is a contemporary painter and illustrator born in 1977 in Ardabil city. He has had 6  solo exhibitions and more than 35 group exhibitions in his career. Morakabatchi studied painting academically at  the undergraduate level at  the University of Science and Culture and is a permanent member of the Iranian  Painters Association. Apart   from   university studies, continuous study  and activity i n  knowing  the  characteristics  of  the  painting medium  has  created a new and       personal expression in Morakabatchi’s works. His  expression  over   time  shows  his  transition  from  representing reality    to a vector  drawn  between  reality  and  abstraction. In  such a    way   that   the   color, composition   and   lines of the  painting oscillate on the border between  reality and   abstraction, sleep  and  wakefulness, madness and   rationality.             In  addition to  the expressive   form   of    painting,  to   express  these   borderline   an  sometimes  confusing elements, Morakabatchi has also used other forms  of  expression  such  as  illustration   and  video,  which, like  painting,  expres the  complex   and   borderless  world  of  Morakabatchi.  Sometimes   he   crosses   the    border   between   different  media,  sometimes  by  knowing  the  limitations of media and sometimes  by  knowing the  capabilities  of  each media,  he goes  towards discovering a new expression and he  sometimes  connects  the media to each other The most important poin  is that in his artist books, he creates a deep and continuous  link  between  the  verbal  media, i.e.   language, and   the   non-verbal media, i.e. illustration, and this  issue  is also evident and traceable in the statements he wrote during different  years    for his exhibitions. In such a way  that  the  artist’s statement is not as an interpreter and carrier for the perception  of the  painting, but  as  an  independent  medium  in  the  direction of linking verbal and non-verbal  language. Azim Meskaranchi     is a bilingual artist  and  therefore benefited from the culture  of  both Persian and Azeri  languages, and   this benefit from two languages in his works  has  led  to the  richness  and    clash   of   two cultures. He    entered    popular  culture   by  using  Azeri  folk  stories  and  uses  these  stories  and   the   literary  language  of   imagination  to  create textures and roles that are not only representative elements for illustration or painting, but they convert the  image  to  an arena for thought  and contemplation in culture and language.

Sohrab Ahmadi

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