MANI

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You must to have a lot of sensitivity

in order to be effective

Mani Mehrzad was born in Tehran/Iran 1981.After he graduated from high school, he moved to Kerman. Living in the City of Kerman, Iran, for four years to study restoration of the historical structures left a lifetime expression on Mani. The supreme architecture of the city and the astonishing nature around it, which he witnessed during his trips to Tehran, familiarized him with

a unique phenomenon and All those experiences inspired him to start his first series of paintings.

In 2004, he moved back to Tehran to study Visual Communication at TarbiatModares University.

For his thesis, he decided to focus on illustrating heroic stories for children’s books. His interest in merging Traditional Iranian miniature painting and modern art, and, studying the schools of art such as Haraat, Tabriz and Shiraz as well as referring to the Lithography of the nineteenth century led him to a new series of paintings.

Now, painting is his core concentration. His practices in book illustration, studying graphic design and restoration of the historical structures, Philosophy, literature, and living in two different cities that are in stark contrast in many ways have become his muse. His new paintings are a manifestation of the contradictions that he live in.