Untitled, NAVID AZIMI SAJADI - T.O.E. Art Market

Winner of the Drawing section, Combat Prize 2018. Navid’s work reviews his experience in-between two cultures. He has developed an esoteric language of signs and symbols from multiple mythologies and histories. His multimedia works on paper are composed of a symbolic language referencing ancient Babylonian sculpture, seventeenth-century Persian miniatures, European devotional art of the Renaissance, and contemporary objects. He uses a combination of traditional materials, such as gouache, gold leaf, and egg tempera, and cutting-edge techniques such as laser print and photography. His works bring together Eastern geometry and a Western celebration of the body as he seeks parallels between his two cultures. His works explore the tensions, traumas, and fears inherent in our society by exploring the religious and the sexual.

Navid Azimi Sajadi was born in Tehran, Iran 1982. He gained a bachelor of art in painting from Tehran Art and Architecture University in 2005. The same year he moved to Rome. In Italy, he had graduated from Accademia di Belli Arti di Roma in 2009. He was awarded the Amedeo Modigliani Foundation prize in the year 2009. He gained his Master of Fine Art in Multi-Media Sculpture in the year 2013 from Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, and in the same year, He has been invited to the 9th Shanghai Biennale.