Mission statement

The Mohsen Vaziri Moghaddam Foundation was established in 2017, following the wish of the Artist and his sons.

The concept of setting up the foundation stems from the desire to explain and contextualise the artworks of one of the main exponents of Iranian art who - unlike many of his contemporaries - never belonged to any groups or collectives.

Vaziri carried out novel, highly original personal experimentation; he was the precursor of many movements and became an antecedent for several successive artists in terms of techniques and materials.

The Foundation was established in Rome, the artist’s adoptive city where his artistic training began at the Academy of Fine Arts and developed over a long-spanning career.

Its goal is to increase the public’s awareness and enhance the understanding of Vaziri’s visual arts –a process that is already underway both in Rome and Tehran– by promoting and protecting the artworks through archiving, conservation activities and the publication of a catalogue raisonné.

The Foundation benefits from an artistic heritage of priceless historic value with a wide selection of works in different media, original documents and materials related to Vaziri’s life and work.

For this reason the aim of the Foundation is to organise exhibitions, publish monographic books, promote a modern understanding of Vaziri’s eclectic artistic production and set up cultural activities in the field of visual arts and music (another great passion of the artist), whilst constantly carrying out research and conservation activities of the artist’s works.