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Fatak
Mousavi
Fatak
Mousavi
was born
in 1982.
He has
graduated
in
Sculpture
from the
University
of Arts,
Tehran.
In
addition
to art
he is a
professional
climber,
and
after
completing
various
courses,
he
obtained
a “Route
Setting”
Diploma
in
France
in 2013.
His
presence
in the
first
conceptual
art
exhibition
in 2001
was
welcomed
by the
officials
of the
Tehran
Museum
of
Contemporary
Art. The
museum
purchased
his work
and has
been
installed
it in
the main
building
of the
Ministry
of
Culture
and
Islamic
Guidance.
“Who is
afraid
of
Iranian
art
pioneers?”
This was
a
critique
written
by Dr.
Alireza
Sami
Azar,
published
in
newspapers
in 2009
regarding
the
artist’s
exhibition
named “Sepid.”
In his
critique,
he
states:
“ The
Sepid “
exhibition
has
shown
the
struggle
against
the
pioneers
of
modern
Iranian
art in a
rare and
strange
event.
The
young
artist
“Fatak
Mousavi
“has
harmonized
creative
work
quality
with his
aggressive
approach
in this
icon-breaking
exhibition
in each
of the
masters’
works.
Aghdashloo’s
Classical
Persian
and
Western
characters
are torn
to
pieces,
Ehsayi’s
calligraphies
were
shredded
to tiny
strings
of
papers,
and the
strings
have
been
destroyed,
Tanavoli’s
controversial
“Heech”
has been
hanged
or
burned,
Kiarostami’s
famous
trees
install-
lations
and
photographs
have
been
burned
or
sawed,
and
finally
Nami’s
paintings
with
white
background
had been
blown up
and
destroyed.
What is
the real
purpose
of this
destruction,
and what
is the
mo-
tivation
for
displaying
this
anti-art
behavior?
... In
the
Iranian
art
community
and
especially
in the
young
generation
and
newly
recognized
artists,
significant
changes
are
emerging,
which
can be
interpreted
in the
background
of the
educated
Iranian
society
modernization
movement
and pro-
guess...”
The
exhibition
“Black-Red-White”
results
from
three
years of
artist’s
work in
the form
of a
Conceptual
Art
Installation.
Works in
the form
of
sculptures
and
paintings
displayed
in a
space
covered
with
salt.
The
works
are
based on
different
views of
the
“Azadi
Square”
building
and
various
writings
of “Khat
Ghermez”
in sculp-
tures
produced
from
combinations
of
stone,
wood,
and
epoxy
glass.
The
artist
says
about
his
exhibition:
“This
arrangement
is the
result
of a
post-minimalist
approach,
relying
on
elements
such as
materialism,
repetition
and the
use of
flat and
industrial
colors
in
expressing
the
artist’s
conceptual
point of
view.”
This
arrangement
will be
exhibited
from
January
26th to
February
13th,
2022 in
Shirin
Art
Gallery,
Tehran.
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