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
 

Solo Exhibitions

2025 Cosmoscow Art Fair, Mojdeh Art Gallery/ Opera in the living room/ Moscow

2025 Volta Art Fair, Mojdeh Art Gallery/ The Last 89 Seconds (Doomsday Clock)/ Basel

2025 Mojdeh Art Gallery/ Mirage/ Tehran

2024 Mojdeh Art Gallery/ From the Stem/ Tehran

2022 Mojdeh Art Gallery/ Hypoxia/ Tehran

2019 Negah Art Gallery/ Autopsia/ Tehran

2016 Negah Art Gallery/ Ataraxia/ Tehran

2015 Saba Cultural and Artistic Center Art Gallery/ Ataraxia/ Tehran

2008 Baran Art Gallery/ Tehran

2006 Baran Art Gallery/ Tehran

Group Exhibitions

2023 Painting Exhibition/ Agnosia/ Shamis Art Galley/ Tehran

2023 Painting Exhibition/ “18”/ Binesh Art Galley/ Tehran

2022 Painting Exhibition/ “XL”/ Negah Art Galley/ Tehran

2021 Painting Exhibition/ Micro Macro/ Vista Art Gallery/ Tehran and Fornaresio Art Gallery/ Turin

2021 Painting Exhibition/ Satin Art/ Saba Cultural and Artistic Center Art Gallery/ Tehran 

2021 Painting Exhibition/ Istanbul Art Fair / Istanbul

2021 Painting Exhibition/ Postcards / Asr Galley and Hengam Galley / Tehran/ Mashhad

2021 Painting Exhibition/ Separate Boundary / Iranian Artists Forum / Tehran

2020 Painting Exhibition/ Virtual Tour of Art Exhibition by Members of the Iranian Painters Association

2020 Painting Exhibition/ Postcards for Norouz 1399/ Sayeh Art Galley/ Tehran

2020 Painting Exhibition/ Contemporary Iranian Artists Works/ Laleh Art Galley/ Tehran

2020 Painting Exhibition/ “Text in Text”/ Iranian Artists Forum/ Tehran

2020 Painting Exhibition/ “In Exist”/ Negah Art Galley/ Tehran

2019 Painting Exhibition/ Laleh Art Galley/ Tehran

2019 Painting Exhibition/ Still Life/ Iranian Artists Forum / Tehran

2019 Painting & Drawing Exhibition/ Sohrab Art Galley/ Tehran

2019 Painting Exhibition/ Farmanfarma Art Galley/ Tehran

2017 Painting Exhibition/ Goharan Art Galley/ Tehran

2017 Drawing Exhibition/ Sohrab Art Gallery/ Tehran

2017 Painting Exhibition/ The Liberty/ Negah Art Gallery/ Tehran

2017 Drawing Exhibition/ Bonn Art Gallery/ Tehran

2017 Painting Exhibition/ Portrait / Khat_e_Sefid Art Gallery / Tehran

2016 Painting Exhibition/ Human / Fereshteh Art Gallery / Tehran

2016 Painting Exhibition of Avant-garde Artists/ Sohrab Art Gallery / Tehran

2016 Research Expo for the members under 40 of SIP/ Iranian Artists Forum / Tehran

2016 Member’s Painting Exhibition of SIP/ Iranian Artists Forum / Tehran

2016 Artist’s Profiles/ Contemporary Art Itineraries/ Satura Editors / Printed in March/ Genoa

2015 Profili D’artista Satura Art Gallery/ Time to Talk/ 100 Contemporary Iranian Artists/ Genoa

2014 The 7th International Fajr Festival/ Saba Cultural and Artistic Center/ Tehran

2014 Member’s Painting Exhibition of SIP/ Haft Ayeneh/ Sari

2014 Painting Exhibition “First Title, Birth of a Painter”/ Iranian Artists Forum/ Tehran

2013 Painting Exhibition/ Shalman Art Gallery/ Tehran

2012 Tehran Artfair/ Saba Cultural and Artistic Center/ Tehran

2012 Member’s Painting Exhibition of SIP/ Contemporary Art Museum/ Isfahan

2011 Iranian Contemporary Artists Painting Exhibition/ Iranian Artists Forum/ Tehran

2006 Painting and Drawing Exhibition/ Kamalodin Behzad Art Gallery/ Tehran

2004 Painting Exhibition/ Bahman Artistic Cultural Center/ Tehran

2001 Drawing Exhibition/ Fadak Artistic and Cultural Center/ Ardebil Activities

Activities

2024 Holding Drawing & Painting Workshops, From The Stem Exhibition, Mojdeh Art Gallery/ Tehran

2017 Illustrating for poetry & music book, A Requiem for Fereidoun (Ghamnoume ye Fereidoun), Composed by Hosein Alizadeh/ Tehran

2016 Poster & brochure Design for a Play, The Duchess of Malfi, Directed by Mohamad Rezaee Rad/ Tehran

2015 Illustrating Ahmad Shamloo’s Biographical Calendar (The Greatest Late Iranian Contemporary Poet)/ Cheshmeh Publishing/ Tehran

2014 Illustrating, directing the first role (in painting) and making the final title for an Iranian movie: the Sea and the Flying Fish

2014 Illustrating for a documentary movie: The History of Education in Iran

2012 Illustrating for a poetry book, Ghamnoume ye Fereidoun, Nakoja Publishing/ Paris



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