Rybon Artist in Britto 4th International Artists’ Workshop

As part of Britto’s regular projects, they organized the 4th International Artists’ Workshop from 24 Nov - 03 Dec 2010 in Sonargaon, which is 27km from Dhaka city in Bangladesh. 10 artists from Italy, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, Iran, Germany/UK, China, Malaysia and 10 artists from Bangladesh lived and worked together in fortitude of camaraderie, experiment and exchange.
A series of presentations and open discussions amongst the participating artists were organised every night. An Open Studio Day on Friday, 03 Dec at Panam Nagar, Folk and Craft Museum and BACE Training Centre showcased the outcomes and were open to the art connoisseurs and the public from morning till afternoon.

Amir Mobed took part in this workshop from Iran. Amir was born in Tehran in 1974. He began making sculptures as early as 1989, and studied fine arts in Tehran’s Azad University of Art and Architecture (1995-2001). After a fairly long practice in sculpture, he created his first installations in 1999. In 2001 he won the third prize in the Third Tehran Sculpture Biennial.  In addition to many solo exhibitions, mainly installation, Mobed has participated in many important local exhibitions like Tehran’s Second and Third New Media Exhibitions (2003, 2004), First, Second and Third Tehran Biennial of Sculpture (1997, 1999, and 2001), “Spiritual look”, and “Iranian Garden”, Both held in Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, (2003, 2004), as well as international exhibitions like: New Art Biennial in Doha, Qatar, 2004 and  “Iranian Sculpture in Mexico”, Mexico City, 2006 and so on.