Azarakhsh Farahani
Visual artist, Illustrator, Musician and Actor
Tehran, Iran
Azarakhsh Farahani is an Illustrator, a musician, and an actor based in Iran, Tehran. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in painting from Azad University in Tehran. As an illustrator and painter, he has participated in several festivals and art exhibits and has won numerous awards.
From January 2017 to the end of September 2019, Azarakhsh has had 13 solo illustration and painting exhibitions and 14 group exhibitions in 6 different countries. Moreover, he has participated in several illustration art festivals and taken part in a number of projects as an illustrator and
graphic designer. From 1996 to 1999, Azarakhsh Farahani was an experimental and professional freelance cartoonist and his work has been published in several Iranian journals including Abrar, Fath, Aftabgardan, Chista, Keyhan Karikator, Tanz-o-Karikator, Jelveye Honar, Soroosh-e-Nojavan, Ayandehsazan,and Aban, etc. In recent years, he has made illustrations for several books and event posters and has been
interviewed many times. Azarakhsh served as a jury member in Behance Portfolio Reviews art competition held in Tehran, Iran in October 2017.
In addition, Azarakhsh has been producing music for the last 18 years and is the founder and master-mind behind the band Koochneshin since 2003. Koochneshin was selected as the best band of the second Tehran underground music festival in 2003.
Being an integral part of Tehran's cultural scene, he has organized multiple events and has performed in countless concerts nationally and internationally. As an actor, Azarakhsh was nominated for the Best Male Supporting Actor's award in 34th Fajr movie festival (Tehran 2016) and 10th Festival of the Association of Critics and Scriptwriters (Tehran 2016) for his role in the feature film "Malaria".
More information about Azarakhsh music activities and movie acting can be found at:
Social media: https://www.instagram.com/farahaniazarakhsh https://m.facebook.com/AzarakhshFarahani https://t.me/azarakhshart
Email: azarakhsh1@yahoo.com
Phone (+WhatsApp &Telegram): +989126126229
A summary of Artistic Activities: Solo Painting Exhibitions:
Solo illustration exhibition, Centre Paris Anim'Nouvelle Athènes, Paris,November 2019 Solo illustration exhibition, Botte Art Gallery, Toronto, September 2019
Solo illustration exhibition, The Mitte Culture Center, Düsseldorf, July 2019
Solo illustration exhibition, Wilson abbey, Chicago, June 2019
Solo poster design exhibition, Jerry Polak historical house, Hormoz Island, April 2019 Solo illustration exhibition, Ariana Art Gallery, Tehran, February 2019
Solo illustration exhibition, Anomalie Art Club, Berlin, June 2018
Solo illustration exhibition, Lyan Gallery, Dusseldorf, May 2018
Solo illustration exhibition, Echomusée Gallery, Paris, May 2018
Solo illustration exhibition, Art bass Gallery, Brussels, May 2018
Solo illustration exhibition, Atbin Gallery, Tehran, September 2017
Solo illustration exhibition, Aran Gallery, Brussels, January 2017
Solo illustration exhibition, Canessa Gallery, San Francisco, January 2017
Group Exhibitions:
The Wopart Art fair, Lugano Exhibition Center, Switzerland, November 2021
Group visual art exhibition, Shangarf Art Gallery, Tehran, September 2020
Group visual art exhibition, International museum of contemporary Art, kish, August 2020 Group visual art exhibition, Saless Art Gallery, Tehran, February 2020
Group poster design exhibition, national Galley of Jamaica, February2019
Group painting exhibition, Saless Gallery, Tehran, January 2019
Group painting exhibition, 4Gallery, Tehran, December 2018
Group poster design exhibition, Sangster International Airport, Montego Bay, November 2018 Group painting exhibition, Sa Gallery, Tehran, November 2018
Group poster design exhibition, Medicine Gallery, Birmingham, October 2018
Group poster design exhibition, Klostergarten, Bersenbrücker, August 2018
Group poster design exhibition, Baltic triangle, Liverpool, June 2018
The third annual Iranian Expo, Shiva Art Center, Barcelona, June 2018
Group painting exhibition,Noghteh Khat Gallery, Bandarabbas, February 2018
Group painting exhibition, Sa Gallery, Tehran, September 2017
Group painting exhibition, Negah Gallery, Tehran, September 2017
Group cartoon exhibition, Tehran's House of Arts, Tehran, 1996
Group cartoon exhibition, Shafagh Cultural Center, Tehran, July 1995
Awards and Nominations:
Nominated for the best poster of AltFF Movies Festival, Canada, 2018
Reached the 6th, 32nd, and 41st place amongst 60 in the professional category of The 6th International Reggae Poster Contest, 2018
Selected amongst the top 45 out of 8000 participants, Embracing Our Differences Festival, Sarasota, Florida, 2018
Best Cartoon in the Face-to-Face Cartoon Competition, Tehran, 1996
First place winner of Tehran Electricity Festival Drawing Competition, 1995
Umoristi A Marostica, Italy, 1994 and 1995
2nd Tehran International Cartoon Exhibition at Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, 1996 Tehran Blue Sky Cartoon Festival at Bahman Cultural Center, 1995
Anti-Cigarette Festival, Tehran, 1996
Perasikaba Caricature Festival, Brazil, 1994
Nippon Cartoon Festival, Japan, 1994
Memories of the Seeker:
On the third night I was lost, it hovered towards me from afar, like a motionless statue, without taking steps.
Like an infant, I felt the warm embrace of its lamp as it arrived, and I sobbed helplessly… My words melted into tears; resting on the softness of the soil. A weight was lifted off my shoulders.
For a while, we stared into each other’s eyes. I no longer felt lost, and as the feelings of thirst, hunger and horror faded away… so did the “Shaman”. It went away and disappeared…
Memories of the Shaman:
Many times you went near the village and never saw the lights. You were so persistent on being lost, it became clear that it was not the path to the village that was missing. What feeling is more pleasant than this wandering? When you sleep, I fill your water bottle! No beast will frighten you! To you, we will be generous! Seek the shining pearl… swim to the depth of the seas and drown! I will be here!
خاطرات جستجوگر:
شب سوم گم شدنم، چونان تندیسی ایستا، بی آنکه قدمی بردارد از دوردستها به من نزدیک می شد.
وقتی رسید گرمای شعله چراغش مرا چون نوزادی در آغوش کشید و ناخوداگاه گریستم...کلماتم همگی اشک شدند و بر نرمای خاک، آرام گرفتند. شانه هایم سبک شد.
مدتی چشم در چشم هم، دیگر نه انگار که گم شده بودم، نه انگار که تشنه و گرسنه بودم، ترسی نماند و «شَمَن»... دور شد و پنهان...
خاطرات شمن:
بارها تا نزدیک آبادی رفتی و چراغها را ندیدی. آنقدر به گم شدنت اصرار داشتی که معلوم بود آنچه که گم کرده ایی نه راه آبادیست! چه از این گم گشتگی خوش تر؟ آنگاه که خفته ایی، قمقمه ات را پر می کنم! حیوانی تو را نخواهد ترساند! با تو گشاده دست خواهیم بود! به دنبال آن مروارید تابناک...در دریای ژرف و عمیق شنا کن و غرق شو! من اینجا هستم!
(آذرخش فراهانى)
Special thank to “Niloofar Shirazian” for english translation
تشكر ويژه از نيلوفر شيرازيان براى ترجمه انگليسى
In an abandoned shelter, faraway
Everything darkened slowly, peace spreading
A small angle was sitting in a corner;
Small as a thumb, large as a key
Oh shiny, innocent key
Turn
Turn and sway
Sway and sing away
.
در پناهگاه دورافتاده متروك.
كم كم همه جا تاريك و آرامش بخش شد.
فرشته كوچكى به اندازه يك كف دست، به اندازه يك كليد بزرگ،
گوشه ايى نشسته بود.
مثل قطره ايى اشك، برق مى زد.
كليد درخشان معصوم
بچرخ..
و پرواز كن
برقص و آواز كن
(آذرخش فراهانى)
ترجمه نيلوفرشيرازيان
فته ايى اما انگار هنوز هم اينجايى.
پيانوى كهنه و داغون بچه گيم رو به وسعت يك اقيانوس پهن كردى.
اقيانوسى كه انگار لباس تورىِ توست
باز نوازشت مى كنم
مى نوازمت
مى نوازى ام
رقص امواج و انگشتان و موسيقى...
با قايق دست ساز حقيرم مى زنم به دل اقيانوس
ديوارهاى رازدار اين اتاق
اين عظمت رو فراموش نخواهندكرد
رفته ايم اما
انگار هنوز هم اينجاييم
(آذرخش فراهانى)
