Artist of the Month
Shiva Pakdel
Shiva Pakdel grew up in Abadan, Iran during the 60s. Abadan then, was one of the most liberal cities in Iran, offering a modern western lifestyle within a land filled with history and tradition. This immersion in and exposure to both eastern and western culture and art, provided Shiva with a great appreciation and enjoyment of both Iranian art, culture, history, and poetry, as well as the art and culture of the west.
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Shahin Mojtabai was born in Tehran in 1967. His love affair with painting began in Paris by the seine river as he watched the homeless painters at work when he was 7 years old. Shahin’s goal is to be hi country’s pride and to be a solid voice conveying a message of truth through his realist brush.
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Rose Issa is an independent curator, producer and writer specialised on visual arts and films from the Middle East and North Africa. For the last 25 years she has been curating film festivals and exihibitions on contemporary arts from the Arab world and Iran in collaboration with private and public institutions, such as the Tate Britain, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Barbican Art Centre,
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Brothers Arash and Arsalan Rahbary, formed metal rock band TarantisT in Iran in the year 2000.
Arash and Arsalan both learned to play music when they were only six years old (Arash is three years older than Arsalan). Arash started by playing Santoor (a stringed musical instrument), while Arsalan started by playing guitar, which later raised Arash’s interest to learn to play guitar.
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Marzieh Vafamehr, Graduated from Fine Arts Faculty in Tehran University in Acting. Participating in acting and scenario writing classes of Bahram Baizai in Hamid Samandarian`s school Establishing Arnavaz fashion products and gave it up in 1993 Founder of theatre group in Andishe cultural centre and supervisor of cinema theatre group of Andishe Javan group
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Mahshid Modares is a mixed media artist. Her three major series, Black Reality, Gabeh and Termeh, are the artist’s journey to comprehend her heritage and roots as an Iranian woman artist. In her paintings, the artist reminds the viewer of the splendor and excellence of Iranian traditional arts, often mislabeled as handcraft
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Mahshid Modares is an artist, art historian and art collector. She received her B.F.A. in painting from Azad University, Tehran, in 1995, and her M.A. in art history from San Jose State University, California, in 2006. Mahshid plans to continue her academic career by continuing her research and publications while pursuinga Ph.D. She is concentrating her studies on the history of visual arts in Iran during the 18th-20th centuries.
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Writer, photographer and television producer, Iason Athanasiadis has been covering the Middle East, Central Asia and the southeast Mediterranean since 1999. He earned degrees in Arabic and Modern Middle Eastern Studies at Oxford University (BA) as well as Persian and Contemporary Iranian Studies at Tehran’s School of International Studies (MA).
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Born on August 13th 1985 in Tehran/Iran, Ash Koosha ( Ashkan KooshaNejad ) is a 23 years old singer/songwriter. He was raised in an artistic family (His mother a vocalist and a fashion designer and his father an award winning photographer), when he got familiar with the voice of great music legends like Dylan, Sting and many more, at a very young age.
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Leilah was born in New York of Iranian parents, although she has been based in Spain for the last seven years. At a young age, she became interested in the dance world studying ballet, jazz and tap in the Professional Children´s program at New York´s distinguished Broadway Dance Center.
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MIRAGE TOWN was first formed by its leader Amir Badamchi in 2005 when he started to form a serious Rock band which he has gone a long way through to reach it.
The most important point in MIRAGE TOWN is the genre which it has been chosen for it and it tries to be the former Alternative Metal band in Iran.
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