Mansour Vakili

Mansour Vakili started painting in high school and became interested in sketching Iranian antiquities in historical cities at the Faculty of Fine Arts, headed by Engineer Houshang Seyhoun.

After going to France and continuing his studies at the Higher School of Fine Arts in Paris, he made numerous sketches of historical monuments and sights of central and southern France. He then continued to get acquainted with French culture, art, and history with watercolor painting.

 In Monaco, while continuing to work on architectural design and under the influence of the energetic nature of the southern coast of France, he began painting with inspiration from the rare landscapes around him using the oil pastel technique on paper with expressive expression. The profound emotional impact of this period is always evident in his later works.

After his return to Paris and winning several architectural competitions, he was under a lot of pressure from the architectural profession. Then, this time, the painting was influenced by Nostalgia about childhood memories and culture and political events, war, etc. At that time, he turned to Iranian literature, writing, and calligraphy. The achievement of this period is his abstract paintings of calligraphy; Sometimes from right to left and sometimes from left to right, but he never turned to calligraphy and believed that by following the hand movement and gesture of Iranian calligraphy and its literary burden, one could achieve a genuine modern painting concerning Iranian culture.

Exploring the history of ancient art and civilization of the East and the West is an inspiration for Mansour Vakili.

He believes that a committed contemporary artist should follow the valuable resources of the civilization, art, and culture of his past and coordinate them with developments of today's life.

Looking at his exhibitions in Iran and France, the subject of memories, dreams ... in the form of reconstructed imaginations, familiar and unknown, clear and vague, happy and worried, is always seen in his works. He says that he spends hours, days, and weeks in front of each painting in isolation but close to memories and with the serenity of classical music in a meditative atmosphere.

Works of art are always created by people who are in danger and have gone to the ultimate stage of their belief, where no human being has gone beyond it. The farther and farther we go, we create the purest, most personal, and rarest life

Mansour Vakili started painting in high school and became interested in sketching Iranian antiquities in historical cities at the Faculty of Fine Arts, headed by Engineer Houshang Seyhoun.

After going to France and continuing his studies at the Higher School of Fine Arts in Paris, he made numerous sketches of historical monuments and sights of central and southern France. He then continued to get acquainted with French culture, art, and history with watercolor painting.

 In Monaco, while continuing to work on architectural design and under the influence of the energetic nature of the southern coast of France, he began painting with inspiration from the rare landscapes around him using the oil pastel technique on paper with expressive expression. The profound emotional impact of this period is always evident in his later works.

After his return to Paris and winning several architectural competitions, he was under a lot of pressure from the architectural profession. Then, this time, the painting was influenced by Nostalgia about childhood memories and culture and political events, war, etc. At that time, he turned to Iranian literature, writing, and calligraphy. The achievement of this period is his abstract paintings of calligraphy; Sometimes from right to left and sometimes from left to right, but he never turned to calligraphy and believed that by following the hand movement and gesture of Iranian calligraphy and its literary burden, one could achieve a genuine modern painting concerning Iranian culture.

Exploring the history of ancient art and civilization of the East and the West is an inspiration for Mansour Vakili.

He believes that a committed contemporary artist should follow the valuable resources of the civilization, art, and culture of his past and coordinate them with developments of today's life.

Looking at his exhibitions in Iran and France, the subject of memories, dreams ... in the form of reconstructed imaginations, familiar and unknown, clear and vague, happy and worried, is always seen in his works. He says that he spends hours, days, and weeks in front of each painting in isolation but close to memories and with the serenity of classical music in a meditative atmosphere.

Works of art are always created by people who are in danger and have gone to the ultimate stage of their belief, where no human being has gone beyond it. The farther and farther we go, we create the purest, most personal, and rarest life