Mostafa choobtarash

In this recent collection, it has been tried to reread historical images with an explicit irony, by concentrating on photos and historical documents and based on narrations and recorded images. In some cases, this irony has complaining aspects, therefore it approaches the stems of graffiti art and in some others it tends to have a destructive or caricatural aspect which adds something different to the way the image is narrated. As a consequence, the image is challenged and a new interpretation is created out of it.

Yet, these images, narrations and historical characters may appear in form of reliefs on historical walls or may be attacked, destructed or satirized in form of an historical album.

Mostafa choobtarash

Born in 1983, Dezful, Iran

2010 MA in painting, Soureh University, Tehran, Iran

2007 BA in painting, Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Solo Exhibitions:

2012 "And so, I ordered the crickets’ stings to be pulled… ", Etemad Gallery, Tehran, Iran

2010 "The Lazy Bomb" series, Siin gallery, Tehran, Iran

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2014 "Approaches to tradition neo- traditionalism in contemporary Iranian art", Tehran Museum of Contemporary Arts, Tehran, Iran

2014 Etemad Gallery, Dubai, UAE

2014 "The second painting & sculpture annual exibition of Iranian Artists Forum ", Iranian Artists Forum Gallery, Tehran, Iran

2014 Siin Gallery, Tehran, Iran

2014 "Forest", Dastan Basement Gallery, Tehran, Iran

2013 "The Inner layers", Pardis e Mellat Gallery, Tehran, Iran  

2012 Homa Gallery, Tehran, Iran

2012 "Wonderland", Shokouh Gallery, Tehran, Iran

2012  Etemad Gallery, Dubai, UAE

2012 Siin Gallery, Tehran, Iran

2011 "The kitchen", Mohsen Gallery, Tehran, Iran

2011 "Tehran Virtual & Real", Aaran Gallery, Tehran, Iran

 2010 Art Center Gallery, Tehran, Iran

 2010 Iranian Artists Forum, (Momayez) Gallery, Tehran, Iran

2010 4^th Visual Arts Exhibition, Pardis Mellat Gallery, Tehran, Selection from the New Generation, Homa Gallery, Tehran

2009 Day Gallery, Tehran, Iran

2009 Young Art, Saba Cultural Center, Tehran, Iran

2009 Laleh Gallery, Tehran, Iran

2008 3^rd Visual Arts Exhibition, Niavaran Cultural Center, Tehran, Iran

2008 Painting Biennale, Saba Cultural Centre, Tehran, Iran

2008 Mahe Mehr Gallery, Tehran, Iran    

2008 2nd Visual Arts Exhibition, Selection from the New Generation, Homa Gallery, Tehran

2006 Painting Biennale of the Islamic World, Saba Cultural Centre, Tehran, Iran

2006 2^nd Painting Biennale Damonfar, Niavaran Cultural Center, Tehran, Iran

2005 Contemporary Iranian Drawings Biennale, Karaj, Iran