Representative work by Mohsen Vaziri-Moghaddam
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Artist

Mohsen Vaziri-Moghaddam

b. 1924, Tehran, Iran · Based in Rome, Italy

  • Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma (1958)
  • Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Tehran (1947)
  • Painting
  • Sand Art
  • Kinetic Sculpture

Mohsen Vaziri-Moghaddam was a giant of Iranian modernism who pioneered gestural sand paintings and articulated geometric wood sculptures. Running his fingers through thick sand adhesives and composing modular wooden joints, he reconciled Iranian cultural motifs with European post-war abstraction.

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