Mohsen Vaziri Moqaddam Comes Before Jasper Jones: Italian Critic

Discussing the works by prominent artist Mohsen Vaziri Moqaddam, Liveri said, “It can be said that some of the world contemporary artists have imitated Vaziri, American Jasper Jones who came after Vaziri has exactly imitated Vaziri’s works; that is, the grooves of Vaziri in 1959, while Jasper Jones in 1973, exactly did this in Venice.”

Talking on modern Italian art for the young interested artists of Iran, she displayed a number of paintings by great Italian artists and tried to link them to Vaziri and his works.

According to her, when visitors are involved in a work, and share the same experience, the artist has gone through, the work is definitely an authentic artwork. She said that nowadays, artists are working on video arts with which people hardly communicate, so such a work does not seem to be an artistic one. 

Liveri went on to say that Vaziri is an example of a real artist. Actually, he has imitated nobody, art has come out from within Vaziri; he is the man of his time. He has entered the world of art with his inner energy and taste, and continued his work of art during his lifetime. This is to prove the way he treated the sand on shores, where he spread the lines in his other works.

In 1959, he began working with sand. He actually put his feeling on the sand, and tried to express his own sense of feeling via it. “There are similarities in the form of painting between Vaziri’s works painted during this time and those of Jackson Pollack but he is quite personal in his works.”

It was about 1968, he had a tendency toward sculptures. It was the most significant part of Vaziri’s life. He has created such sculptures, which have never been made in Italy. The feeling of touch was transferred to visual lines in his works, Livery concluded his speech. 

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