Naser Houshmand Vaziri
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Naser Houshmand Vaziri was born in 1946 in Hamedan, Pahlavi Iran. At the age of five he moved with his parents to Tehran. He considered his mother as the single most important influence on him as well as his artistic life.[1] He was a graduate of the fine arts faculty of University of Tehran.
After graduating from university, Vaziri began to work in his sculpting studio on Fātemi Street[2] in Tehran. He continued to work in this location for over thirty years. Around 2005 he closed this studio and moved to Lavāsān, in the Lavasanat District, in the northeast of Tehran,[3] where he works on his life-dream, turning his home and surroundings into a workshop and an in-and-outdoor art museum. He was further digging a tunnel into the mountain,[4] hoping to reach a natural tunnel in the process. In doing so, he was simultaneously turning the dug tunnel into a museum of arts. He intended also to create, amongst other things, the real-size sculptures of all the mythical heroes of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh.
Vaziri was the creator of twenty-five of the real-size sculptures that have been installed in the Laundry Museum of Zanjān and of the thirty sculptures of the Bagh-e Ferdowsi [5] (The Garden of Ferdowsi) in northern Tehran.
Although stone was his favorite material, he worked with such other substances as mud, wood, sand, glass, fibreglass, ceramic, metal and cement. He worked both in classical and modern styles of sculpting. He was further a taxidermist.[6] The sculptor and painter Roksānā Houshmand Vaziri[7] and the physicist and sculptor Rāmā Houshmand Vaziri[8] are daughters of Nāser Houshmand Vaziri.
Nāser Houshmand Vaziri died of a heart attack on Friday, 28 June 2019, he was 73, the Association of Iranian Sculptors announced.[9]
Notes and references
- ↑ Javād Montazeri, The Sculptor of Lavāsān, in Persian, Jadid Online, 8 May 2009.
- ↑ Doctor Fātemi Street is named after Dr Hossein Fātemi. For a satellite image of the location, click here. Doctor Fātemi Street is adjacent to the "+" sign in the centre of the image.
- ↑ Lavāsān is to the north of Latiyān Dam. For a satellite image of the location, click here.
- ↑ Part of the Alborz Mountains which border Tehran in the North.
- ↑ Bagh-e Ferdowsi, Tehran, Iran, Agha Khan Award for Architecture, Awards 1999-2001 Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "Official Website of Nāser Houshmand Vaziri". Archived from the original on 2019-08-16. Retrieved 2009-05-08.
- ↑ See Roksānā Houshmand Vaziri Archived 2010-06-23 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ See Rāmā Houshmand Vaziri Archived 2010-06-23 at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "Sculptor Naser Houshmand Vaziri Dies at 73".
External links
- Official Website of Nāser Houshmand Vaziri Archived 2019-08-16 at the Wayback Machine.
- Photographs of Nāser Houshmand Vaziri, by Masoud Soheili, 2004: .
- Some photographs of the Laundary Museum of Zanjān: Main entrance (1), interior (2), interior (3).
- Javād Montazeri, The Sculptor of Lavāsān, in Persian, Jadid Online, 8 May 2009, .
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