Mojtaba Taghvaei (aka “Moshtaba”) is an artist from northern Iran, Mazandaran, born in 1989. From 1996 to 2000 he spent four years in Ahmad Nasrollahi‘s “Blue Atelier”, learning about art, painting, and different techniques.
He started a self-taught career after a long break in 2012, starting with a simple “ink on tissue” technique and mastering his main “marker on cardboard” style after years. Four solo exhibitions in Iran and participating in multiple group exhibitions in Iran, Switzerland, and Germany, creating cover artworks for some musicians, movie posters, and illustrating books, have been the main body of his activities. (read the detailed information in the Exhibitions/Projects section)
Working on cardboard with non-rectangle, non-standard shapes and making the painting’s shape follow the composition and not otherwise; is the key factor in his style. The subject matter is a never-ending dystopian trip based on his experiences of growing up in the Middle East and all the purely maximal scenery, ethics, urban legends, symbols, quotes, and traumas of being a part of the blood-soaked, troubled region.
