Marjan Fahimi
Born in Tehran on March 1, 1982, at the age of 15 Marjan Fahimi began attending some painting courses at Hossein Maher and Maryam Mahin’s studios.
Marjan Fahimi is an Iranian artist born in Tehran in 1982. At the age of 15 she began attending painting courses at Hossein Maher’s Studio and after graduation she started studies in Italian Language and Literature at the University of Tehran; in the meantime she participated in several group exhibitions in some of the most important galleries of the Tehran art scene such as Elahe Art Gallery, Bahman Cultural Center, Robat Art Gallery.
Fahimi has also realized two solo exhibitions: in 2003 with the “Urban Details” project at Atbin Art Gallery and in 2004 with the exhibition “Birds” at Seyhoon Art Gallery. The latter period of work is particularly influenced by the city and its landscapes, details and urban views seen so closely as to become abstract images, the only creatures to animate the scene are the birds, almost always sitting to contemplate the passageways of the concrete city.
In 2004 she came to Rome to study architecture. Being in contact with Renaissance and Baroque art changed her artistic vision in a perceptible way; subsequently she moved to the roman countryside, moving closer to nature and undertaking research on the naturalistic component of the landscape and its poetics, interpreting it in an abstract manner where the subjects are mainly characterized by views that highlight the main atmospheric phenomena: wind, clouds, rain and light.
Her search for an equilibrium between figurative and abstract continues, exploring a global vision of painting that proposes both the realism of the form and the lyric of sentiment. Stylistic research is combined with an experimental technique, mostly layered. The use of transparent resin in her artistic production is quite recent: she experimented for the first time with it in 2016. She uses transparent resin in order to encapsulate the pictorial moment and makes the space brighter, thus accentuating the depth of the work as well as the sensorial perception that comes from the stratification of the color.
Selected Exhibitions:
2023 – “Libertà/Azadi”, curated by Vinicio Prizia, Sala Orsini del Palazzo Chigi, Formello
2022 – “Ex-Stasis”, curated by Rossella Savarese, Syart Gallery, Sorrento
2022 – “ArtKeys Prize”, NEXT – Capaccio, Paestum
2021 – “Art is over”, curated by Rossella Savarese, Syart Gallery, Sorrento
2019 – “Astrazione Figurativa”, curated by Juan Carlos Garcìa Alìa, Galleria della Biblioteca Angelica, Rome
2018 – “FORMA MENTIS. Estetica del tatto”, Museo Tattile Statale Omero – Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona
2018 – “Matrice del paradiso”, curated by Shura Oyarce Yuzzelli, Pinacoteca Civica, San severino, Marche
2018 – “Sorrento Young Art – International meetings of Contemporary Art”, curated by Rossella Savarese and Paolo Feroce, Villa Fiorentino, Sorrento
2017 – “Nuvola Creativa – Seconda Edizione LIVING NATURE”, curated by Antonietta Campilongo and Honos Art Gallery, MACRO (Museo D’Arte Contemporanea Roma), Spazio FACTORY, Rome
2017 – “Trasmutazioni”, curated by Gian Ruggero Manzoni, San Galgano Abbey, Siena
2016 – “HONOS presenta HONOS”, group show curated by Juan Carlos Garcìa Alìa, Honos Art Gallery, Rome
2016 – “Dodici Contemporaneamente. Perimetri, prospettive, vie di fuga”, curated by Ornella Ricca e Pietro Spagnoli, Chiostro di Sant Agostino, Veroli
2016 – “DREAMLAND”, curated by Glenda Lorenzani, Domus Art Gallery, Athens
2015 – “Controluce”, solo show curated by Vinicio Prizia, Sala Orsini del Palazzo Chigi, Formello
2014 – “Off Site Art”, Public Art project, sponsored by ArtBridge (NYC), curated by Veronica Santi, L’Aquila
2007 – “L.I.Art Prize – Martelive”, Laboratorio Incontri d’Arte (L.I.Art), Rome
2004 – “The Birds”, solo exhibition, Seyhoon Art Gallery, Tehran
2003 – Group show, Robat Art Gallery, Tehran
2003 – “Urban Details”, solo exhibition, Atbin Art Gallery, Tehran
2002 – Group show, Bahman Cultural Center, Tehran
2002 – Group show, Haft Samar Art Gallery, Tehran
2001 – VI Iranian contemporary drawing symposium, Barg Art Gallery, Tehran
1999 – Group show, Elahe Art Gallery, Tehran
Awards:
2022: Winner of the residency contest “Arte, Cultura del cibo e paesaggio” at Massa Lubrense, a project financed by the Restaurateurs association, Architecture Department of the University of Naples Federico II and the Municipality of Massa Lubrense;
2022: finalist at the fourth edition of ArtKeys Prize;
2014: Second runner up artist in the SILVER Category in “Adrenalina Contemporary Art Prize;
2014: artist selected for “Off Site Art” Project for Aquila – edited by Veronica Santi – in collaboration with ArtBridge, New York;
2008: winner of Martelive contest – painting section;
2007: finalist of Martelive contest and L-I-ART Jury prize;
Pubblic works:
2022: “The Window” – a site-specific sculpture for Monte San Costanzo at Massa Lubrense, Naples
