Mashaallah Mohammadi

Iranian animation today is a medium closely related to drawing, painting and the graphic arts. It draws on the rich cultural and artistic heritage of textile design, miniature painting, calligraphy, Persian folk tales, literature and the motifs of ceramics and architecture.

These animations profile the work of a talented Kurdish-Iranian emerging animation artist, Mashaallah Mohammadi.

Mohammadi started painting when he was 12, attended the University of Fine Arts in Tehran and began making animations in 2004. Based on scanned drawings in a limited palette, Mohammadi’s animations draw on life experiences, melancholy and fragility to tell stories of shared human experience.

Mohammadi’s award winning work Other Being (2006) is included in this program of three works.

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