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Mohammad Ali Taraghijah |
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| Biography: | Born in Tehran in 1943, Mohammad Ali Taraghijah enjoyed painting from childhood. Although he began his career as an engineer, he turned away from that work to professionally pursue art which is his true passion. In 1968 he won his first Golden Award in Iran's National Art Competition. His first exhibition in 1976 was of still-life paintings at the Tehran Gallery and later at the Basel's International Art Fai,Switzerland in 1978. By the beginning of the 1980's, Taraghijah developed his unique style of painting, characterized by stylized horses that became his trademark. The International Museum of 21th Century Arts (TIMOTCA), in U.S.A. selected his paintings as representative of Iranian art. His paintings are part of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMCA), the Museum of Modern Arts of Sharjah (U.A.E.) and Wereld Museum, Rotterdam, Leiden, Netherlands collections.
Taraghijah has emerged as a truly exceptional contemporary Iranian artist. His art reveals a man at ease with himself and his surroundings. His peaceful and tranquil paintings use figures of horses, roosters and rural Iranians in a legendary land. Taraghijah creates translucent, peaceful, insightful and long lasting impressions, which remind the viewer of the Orient and legends of the desert. The images are subtle but defined, astonishing and mysterious. Observers standing still in front of his work find themselves transported to a beautiful and peaceful, yet unknown land. Like in poetry his work talks in the simplest and most evocative terms. The horses in his paintings ride free of the earth, as do the roosters, human forms and mountains. Their journey to paradise from which they originated is symbolized by the movement, weightlessness and color of the figures.
Their desire is to fly and return to their loved ones. White in the paintings symbolizes God, a presence M. A. Taraghijah feels close to him everywhere.
In recent years his work has been exhibited alongside world renowned artists around the globe, in such cities as New York, Washington D.C., Chicago, Paris, London, Zurich, Geneva, Vienna, Tokyo, Mexico City, Tehran, Florence, Lisbon, Madrid, and Stuttgart.
"It has always been my wish that all human beings, regardless of their culture, religion, customs and other differences could live together in peace and harmony.", says Taraghijah
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