Fariba Karimi

Born in 1981

Iran

date of insertion W.A.D. 06/2022

Biography

FARIBA KARIMI, born in Tabriz, Iran

I live and work in Rome. I was born on 11 November 1981 in Tabriz, Iran, in the north, the still Iranian part of Azerbaijan, where Azerbaijani is spoken. Persian is the official language studied at school and when we moved to Tehran I was only five years old. In addition to the novelty of being in a huge city I also had the problem of having to learn Farsi, a language of which I had only a few words. I was a lonely and shy child. For the first seven years of my life, I lived through the war between Iran and Iraq. I well remember the fear, the radio on 24 hours a day, the air-raid warnings for the bombings, the terror of the chemical weapons supplied to Iraq by the industries of some European countries. Distant voices, but they are still alive and always present: a sound or an image is enough to evoke them.

After finishing art school, I graduated in 2006 in Painting from the University of Art in Tehran. In 2009, I came to Rome to study architecture at Valle Giulia, but I was immediately disappointed. The following year I enrolled at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, from where I graduated in “painting” in 2014. Little by little, I found my own way. I chose another life, different and “adventurous,” alone in Italy, earning a living by painting large canvases and small abstract drawings. I am not one for half measures … in Rome I had the opportunity to develop my research and passion for engraving and knowledge of traditional western and eastern papers, and I began to use them as a medium that is very present in my work.

On my journey and in my meetings in Rome, I met the artist Marilù Eustachio by chance when I lived in Trastevere, and immediately we became great friends. She is a special person and a great artist and intellectual who opened up the world to me. Since she started painting, Marilù has also carried on a large parallel project that consists of hundreds of notebooks with drawings and notes, the record of a lifetime, where quality also lies in quantity, and where constancy and determination become “style.” She has always preferred a secluded life, prioritizing her work. A few years ago, I started to organize the archive for her, and this work has brought me yet further riches and knowledge about Italian contemporary art and literature, in particular about Roman art and female artists of the last hundred years.

In recent years, in addition to large canvases, I have been working on various series of paintings and drawings, mostly small in size … using mixed techniques on paper. Most are in black and white with some shade of grey, but every now and then I use colours … a red, a bright blue, almost cobalt, and an intense blue.

Curriculum

Principali esposizioni

2022 – Opera Uinca, Rivelazione, Bibliothe’- Roma, a cura di Francesco Gallo Mazzeo

2021 – Biennale Internazionale Donne 2021 BID21ART, Trasformazioni silenziose/Silent Transformations, a cura di Gabrila Von Habsburg, Trieste

2021 – mostra Tendenze Attualizzanti, Rggi D’Ulivo #2, Trevi

2019 – mostra Dell’Hanji , Istituto Culturale Coreano- Roma, a cura di Laura Salvi, Riccardo Ajossa

2019 – mostra collettiva “CONTRAPPUNTI, 1” , a cura di Bianca Pedace, stazione di posta San Gemini , San Gemini, Italia.

2019 – mostra  internazionale “SILK ART YUN”,  Tsinghua Academy museum , Pechino- Cina. 

2018 – Mostra internazionale “SILK ART YUN”, The Gongwangfu museum Pechino,

organizzato Academy of fine Art Tsinghua University, Pechino, Cina.

2018 – KWVD mostra internazionale , Art Center Gallery LONG, Seoul, Sud Corea.

2018 – Mostra collettiva “OPIFICIO PUCA” a cura di Antonio Rossi, Caserta,Italia.

2018 – Mostra internazionale “ The Blood of women- Tracce di rosso sul panno bianco”  a cura di Manuella De Leonardis, Palazzo Fibbioni, comune dell’Aquila.

2018 – Night , Tinny biennale a cura di Susan Moore, Gallery of Temple University Roma, Italia.

2017 – Mostra personale “Siyahkhat” , a cura di Mitra Pur Memar,  Matn Gallery , Isfahan, Iran.

2017 – Workshop- Seminario (organizer), preparazione della Carta (orientale –occidentale), Kashane Honar Fine Arts Academy, Isfahan, Iran.

2017 – Mostra collettiva con associazione International female artists  Roma.

2017 – Mostra Personale, The  Road  to  Life, a cura di Vincenzo Elefante, Nell’ambito della XV edizione “ Tu: donna” , Museo Archeologico  Calatia-Maddaloni.

2017 – Mostra collettiva con associazione International female artists , organizzato di associazione internazionale cinese  donna artiste, Roma,Italia.

2017 – Giallo , Tinny biennale a cura di Susan Moore, Gallery of Temple University Roma, Italia.

 2016 – Mostra collettiva , Tinny biennale a cura di Susan Moore, Gallery of Temple University Roma, Italia.

2016 – Mostra collettiva “haft negah” Tehran cultral Center Niavaran, Tehran, Iran.

2015 – Mostra Personsle, Art Caffé, Spoleto. A cura di Francesco Gallo , 2014 _  Mostra collettiva ,Gallery Aria, Tehran, Iran.

2015 – Mostra Collettiva con artisti italiani e cinesi della Accademia delle Belle Arti di Roma e supportato dall’omonima di Roma (AACI Roma), dalla New MillenniumGallery , Palazzo Velli,Rome.

2013 – Video- Installazione, Festival Roccadaspide-Salerno. 

2013 – Mostra Collettiva di  Accademia delle Belle Arti di Roma, Biblioteca Rispoli, Rome.

2012 – Festival- installazione,  Camigliana- Caserta.  

2012 – Mostra  Collettiva, Galleria Laleh, Tehran-Iran .

2012 – Mostra Personale, Libreria del    Cinema, Roma.

2012 – Mostra Collettiva, Libreria del Cinema, Roma.

2011 – Personale, Galleria di Belle Arti di Karaj, Karaj_Iran.  Tehran-Iran.

2011 – 1° Int. Print Biennal, Istanbul, Turchia.  

2006 – 4° International Painting Biennal of Islamic World, Galleria Saba, Tehran-Iran. 1° Int. dell’Arte nell’Università dell’Arte di Tehran, Tehran-Iran.   

2003 – Drawing Biennal , Tehran, Iran.

2003 – Mostra Collettiva, Galleria Barg, Tehran-Iran.