![]() Calligrapher :Bahman Panahi خطاط : بهمن پناهی |
Born :1967 in Iran Youngest son of a large artistic and cultivated family he was born into the milieu of the Arts and came into contact with music, painting, theatre and calligraphy through the work of his brothers. From these Arts he chose music and calligraphy for himself. In his opinion the former stands for the Iranian history, its culture and its civilization, the later gives a spontaneous image of the Iranian creativity and its taste. His constant preoccupation is the relation between these two artistic domains. He has obtain the official Master certificat from iranian calligraphists assciation with great masters of calligraphy: "AMIRKHANI , FORADI , KABOLI" and satrted teaching in diffrent caltural, artistic and academic centers in iran and abords. He studied assiduously the principles of Iranian music by learning play the “Setar”, a traditional instrument. 1985 he passed successfully the entrance exam for the faculty of Arts of the Teheran University . During this time he learned to play the “Tar” besides the “Setar” and deepened his musical knowledge with great masters of traditional Iranian music like Houshang ZARIF, Mohamad Reza LOFTI, Ataolah ZAHED SHIRAZI…. Since 1990 he gave concerts, workshops and exhibions in Iran, France, India, at the Maldives, Holland, England, Syria, Sri-Lanka, Tunisia, Spain, in Belgique....…
He published several articles in magazines dedicated to the Arts and to Iranian music.
2002 he has carried on with his studies at the “Ecole des Beaux-Arts” in Valenciennes , France . Today he studies at the doctoral school of the Sorbonne in Paris . There he devotes himself to showing the links that exist between calligraphy and music by studying contemporary art |