Saba Najafi was born in Iran in 1979, lives and works in Milan
2018 – 2021 Specialist Course in Art Therapy Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan, Italy
2009 – 2013 Specialist Course in Painting Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan, Italy
2005 – 2002 Master degree in Painting Honar Art University, Tehran, Iran
1998 – 2002 Bachelor degree in Painting Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran
EXHIBITIONS
SOLO EXHIBITION
2009-02 ELLEQUADRO GALLERY , GENOA
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITION SELECTED
2021-09 SERENDIP PROJECT, FELICE EFFIMERO INDETERMINATO, FESTIVAL DEL TEMPO 2021, SERMONETA
2021-09 ARTI PAESAGGI UTOPIE , DUNE PROJECT ART RESIDENCY, PRINCIPINA A MARE, TUSCANY
2021-07 LA PIETRA E IL LEGNO, FONDAZIONE SORMANI PROTA-GIURLEO, SORMANO
2021-06 BIENNIAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL ART IV ED.THE NATURE OF ART, GALLERY SWEET GALLERY, MARIANO COMESE
2021-03 ARTE NATURA POESIA IN VALLASSINA, VIRTUAL EXHIBITION
2020-10 STUDIO PEPE36, WALKINSTUDIMILANO , MILAN
2019-12 MARINO MARINI MUSEUM, FLORENCE
2019-10 TORNERIA, MILAN
2019-10 GRAND ART, FINE FAIR, MILAN
2018-05 ALTROVE PROJECT, CIRCUITI DINAMICI, MILAN
2017-03 NUOVO ORDINE, SPAZIO PUNTO, MILAN
2016-06 LALTALENA SPACE, C&F, MILAN
2016-04 CIRCUITI DINAMICI, CONTAMINAZIONI IDENTITATIRE, MILAN
2016-03 IMPRINT, SPAZIO PUNTO, MILAN
2015-06 NORMAN PLASTROW GALLERY, LONDRA
2015-05 ART TODAY GALLERY, ANDARE VERSO… , WITH LOREDANA GALANTE, TEHRAN
2014-05 CENTRO UGO FOSCOLO ,” CONTEMPORARY IN ART” ARTIST OF BRERA, CORSICO, MILAN
2014-02 SPAZIO VOGH, MILAN
2013-01 ANTICO ORATORIO DELLA PASSIONE DI SANT AMBROGIO, “THE WOMAN MULTICULTURAL MEDIATOR”, MILAN
2011-06 MAIMERI FOUNDATION, “THE NEST”, MILAN
2011-03 SPAZIO CONCEPT, MILAN
2009 ARTOUR-O, FIRENZE ( MUST MUSEO TEMPORANEO FIRENZE), FLORENCE
2005 FIRST EXHIBITION OF NATURE AND THE ORIENT, SABA GALLERY, TEHRAN
2004 FATIMA GALLERY, TEHRAN
2004 THIRD BIENNIAL OF CONTEMPORARY PAINTING OF THE ISLAMIC COUNTRIES, SABA GALLERY, TEHRAN
2003 SIXTH BIENNIAL OF CONTEMPORARY PAINTING MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, TEHRAN
2003 FIRST FESTIVAL OF ART, ART UNIVERSITY, TEHRAN
2003 BARG GALLERY, TEHRAN
2002 NIAVARAN GALLERY, TEHRAN
2001 TARRAHAN E AZAD GALLERY, TEHRAN
2001 AFRAND GALLERY, TEHRAN
2000 ESHRAGH GALLERY, TEHRAN
1997 ANDISHE GALLERY, TEHRAN
ENG
The leitmotif of my works is existence that must be faced in its most intimate individual Shades up to the collective and most external ones.
I share the fragments of my experience to bring the gaze to the invisible part of our being: the fragility, resilience and complexity of our existence.
The topics covered are in line with a search in the inner world to know our intimate and hidden virtues.
The choice of material is characterized by the concept of the work and can vary from raw canvas to stone and wood with techniques that can range from painting to video representations.
Culture and intuition lead me to use wool and cotton threads as a repeated and meditated path between lived and present. The threads are links between the inner and outer world, between us and the other and between us and the world.
IT
Il filo conduttore dei miei lavori è l’esistenza che va affrontata nelle sue sfumature individuali più intime fino a quelle collettive e più esteriori
Condivido i frammenti del mio vissuto per portare gli sguardi verso la parte invisibile del nostro essere: la fragilità, la resilienza e la complessità della nostra esistenza.
Le tematiche trattate sono in linea con una ricerca nel mondo interiore per conoscere le nostre doti intime e nascoste.
La scelta del materiale è caratterizzata dal concetto dell’opera e può variare dalla tela grezza alla pietra e al legno con tecniche che possono spaziare dalla pittura alle rappresentazioni video.
Cultura e pensiero mi portano ad utilizzare i fili di lana e cotone come un percorso ripetuto e meditato tra vissuto e presente. Il fili sono dei legami tra mondo interiore ed esteriore, tra noi e l’altro e tra noi e il mondo.