Sobre el Artista

Mojtaba Shabani, is a 38 year old visual artist living and working in Tehran, Iran. He uses his dreams as inspiration for works ranging from drawing, printmaking, painting to photography, video and sound. As an enthusiast for art, he started his art career and studies in 2000 at The Fine Art School and his first solo exhibition was held in 2003 at Aria Gallery. Since then, Mojtaba has participated in numerous solo shows and group exhibitions in his motherland as well as abroad. He’s been teaching Drawing and printmaking at Academic center for education, culture & research and also at University of Applied science as well as his own studio for over than 10 years. In 2005, he set up a gallery at cultural section of Ivorian embassy in Tehran and since then he has staged two national exhibitions of self-portrait and printmaking in there so far. ______________ Crumpled A Project by Mojtaba Shabani Crumpled is the title of a project including various series of sculptures projects: The Wastes, Crumple the Matrix (cliché), Deformed Form, Face of Altercation, Sealed Objects, and Flying Over the Childhood. These sculptures are made out of copper, lead and galvanized steel. The clichés are copper plates on which a plan is engraved and this plan is distributed through a pressing process. At the end the artist is faced with the wastes which remained of his artwork because the plate should be destroyed due to the artist's obligation not to reproduce the piece beyond the agreement and create further editions. These wastes are the objects which the artist had paid a great deal of money for to produce his art and to be able to present to the public. Anything can be turned into a cliché in order to become a cliché, especially when the artist is busy with a routine process and unaware of the existing reality. In order to express a pure idea, we may need to repeat the action over and over. This, sometimes may lead the mind itself to operate within a cliché and just produces: In fact, the form and meaning of the subject is going to be interpreted in a wrong way. The second look at the true existence, from an aesthetic point of view, re-investigates and reintroduces the concept of beauty. The aesthetic view toward the surroundings gives the artist a broader perspective and leads to the concept of creation, the reflection of which could be traced in the artist's activities.