Shahla Moazzezi in 1990
Style:<strong><i>Marie-José Bouscayrol point of view: </i></strong> Shahla Moazzezi has kept an enlightened memory of her Iranian childhood. She carries in her, the wisdom of a multi-millennium culture. Very young she learnt the refinement of the occident and has perfectly assimilated it. Today she splits her life between France and Iran and her art nourishes itself from the narrow sentimental link which she maintains with her birth country.<br />
Shahla Moazzezi only paints when she feels the need to express an emotion, which is usually born from an event, a thought, a memory, a meeting with a particular character or poetry. It is indeed her private garden that she paints with the pastel art medium on a black background. It happens that she decides to partially open the door of this garden and invite us to join her in her journeys built of memories and mythological inspirations.<br />
In the secretive confines of her atelier, Shahla Moazzezi builds a rare masterpiece and very personal, fingerprints of the oriental culture inherited from her country of birth, Iran. Shahla Moazzezi is a warrior who believes in the forces of life and hope as the ultimate victor against death and hatred. Her work is at her own image, enlightened, subtitle and strong. She works with pastel with a dark background most of the time. The colors strike like lighting but harmonious at the same time around the milestones told in the stories of her paintings. Both safe haven as well as source of strength, each masterpiece carries rituals, symbols and mythologies straight from the Orient. Shahla Moazzezi nurtures her paintings from an emotion, a painful memory, or an anger from the past. The story unravels around a central point which acts as an essential maelstrom of feelings inhabited within the painter. World citizen, she knows that her life is always elsewhere, this elsewhere who could perhaps tear her, she decided instead to make of it an ally, a force within her. Her philosophy of existence is based on a frontier that paradoxically frees her mind. Frontier between life and death, pain and happiness… Accordingly, her life which could become a long wandering becomes instead a succession of routes, a gateway between several universes which nurtures her thoughts and artistic contributions, as she feels that happiness is only obtained through patience.<br />
<strong><i>Jean-Louis Depierris point of view:</i></strong> If anyone carries within himself images, symbols and myths of humanity, it is for the designer that their implementation corresponds to a silent internal necessity. As it is this implementation which exposes, the most secret characteristics of Man. Through the attraction that these images impact the spirit, the designer overrides the conditions of the history, and reintegrates the archetype of Man, his primordial unity, which he cannot possibly realize in the closed world of the moment. It is through these means that he rediscovers the existence of a lost paradise. The symbols of the desires, the enthusiasm or the nostalgias projects the designer in the creation of an awaken dream, where spirit and the hand utilizes images to attempt to abolish the constraints, and capture, through their rays of significance, the ultimate reality of the universe, but also, for the designer, the most intimate. It is this imprescriptible domain of being that Shahla Moazzezi rediscovers in her painting. Her imagination swims at the heart of life symbols and lives in myth and theologies.Painting Career:<i>Exhibitions:</i> Shahla Moazzezi has been selected to numerous international painting exhibition notably the Paris Salon d’automne, Tehran Artist House, multiple place in France, USA, Belgium, Iran and others.<br />
<i>Prizes: </i>She has won half a dozen first prize in international painting competition notably in Cannes, Toulouse, Ypres and Lyon.<br />
<i>Work location:</i> Some of her work are spread across the world notably in Paris, Los Angeles, Cologne, New York, Tehran, Paris, Toronto and London.<br />
<i>Notable people owning Shahla Moazzezi work:</i> Dr. Ahmad Mahdavi-Damghani, Empress Farah Diba, Tirafkan foundation in Tehran and Jean Louis Depierris.<br />
<i>Books involving the work of shahla moazzezi:</i> “Les Artistes du Grand Sud Ouest”, “Femmes Artistes (d’hier et d’aujourd’hui)”, “Portraits d’artiste, Shahla Moazzezi (by Depierris)”, “Shahla Moazzezi: poésie des couleurs, la philosophie des images (Homa Sayar)”
Marie-José Bouscayrol point of view: Shahla Moazzezi has kept an enlightened memory of her Iranian childhood. She carries in her, the wisdom of a multi-millennium culture. Very young she learnt the refinement of the occident and has perfectly assimilated it. Today she splits her life between France and Iran and her art nourishes itself from the narrow sentimental link which she maintains with her birth country.
Shahla Moazzezi only paints when she feels the need to express an emotion, which is usually born from an event, a thought, a memory, a meeting with a particular character or poetry. It is indeed her private garden that she paints with the pastel art medium on a black background. It happens that she decides to partially open the door of this garden and invite us to join her in her journeys built of memories and mythological inspirations.
In the secretive confines of her atelier, Shahla Moazzezi builds a rare masterpiece and very personal, fingerprints of the oriental culture inherited from her country of birth, Iran. Shahla Moazzezi is a warrior who believes in the forces of life and hope as the ultimate victor against death and hatred. Her work is at her own image, enlightened, subtitle and strong. She works with pastel with a dark background most of the time. The colors strike like lighting but harmonious at the same time around the milestones told in the stories of her paintings. Both safe haven as well as source of strength, each masterpiece carries rituals, symbols and mythologies straight from the Orient. Shahla Moazzezi nurtures her paintings from an emotion, a painful memory, or an anger from the past. The story unravels around a central point which acts as an essential maelstrom of feelings inhabited within the painter. World citizen, she knows that her life is always elsewhere, this elsewhere who could perhaps tear her, she decided instead to make of it an ally, a force within her. Her philosophy of existence is based on a frontier that paradoxically frees her mind. Frontier between life and death, pain and happiness… Accordingly, her life which could become a long wandering becomes instead a succession of routes, a gateway between several universes which nurtures her thoughts and artistic contributions, as she feels that happiness is only obtained through patience.
Jean-Louis Depierris point of view: If anyone carries within himself images, symbols and myths of humanity, it is for the designer that their implementation corresponds to a silent internal necessity. As it is this implementation which exposes, the most secret characteristics of Man. Through the attraction that these images impact the spirit, the designer overrides the conditions of the history, and reintegrates the archetype of Man, his primordial unity, which he cannot possibly realize in the closed world of the moment. It is through these means that he rediscovers the existence of a lost paradise. The symbols of the desires, the enthusiasm or the nostalgias projects the designer in the creation of an awaken dream, where spirit and the hand utilizes images to attempt to abolish the constraints, and capture, through their rays of significance, the ultimate reality of the universe, but also, for the designer, the most intimate. It is this imprescriptible domain of being that Shahla Moazzezi rediscovers in her painting. Her imagination swims at the heart of life symbols and lives in myth and theologies.
Exhibitions: Shahla Moazzezi has been selected to numerous international painting exhibition notably the Paris Salon d’automne, Tehran Artist House, multiple place in France, USA, Belgium, Iran and others.
Prizes: She has won half a dozen first prize in international painting competition notably in Cannes, Toulouse, Ypres and Lyon.
Work location: Some of her work are spread across the world notably in Paris, Los Angeles, Cologne, New York, Tehran, Paris, Toronto and London.
Notable people owning Shahla Moazzezi work: Dr. Ahmad Mahdavi-Damghani, Empress Farah Diba, Tirafkan foundation in Tehran and Jean Louis Depierris.
Books involving the work of shahla moazzezi: “Les Artistes du Grand Sud Ouest”, “Femmes Artistes (d’hier et d’aujourd’hui)”, “Portraits d’artiste, Shahla Moazzezi (by Depierris)”, “Shahla Moazzezi: poésie des couleurs, la philosophie des images (Homa Sayar)”
