Mohamadali Vadood’s wooden sculpture The Sound of Silence reminds us that restricting art does not necessarily mean silencing creativity. At times, art creates its most eloquent narrative precisely through absence.
Vadood’s wooden sculpture from his Forever a Tree series, titled Amidst the Inner Turmoil, was created in 2012 (1391 in the Iranian calendar) from a single piece of pine wood and stands 140 cm tall. It captures a moment of encounter between stillness and movement.
A tree, wounded by a bullet approximately 250 years ago, eventually finds its way to Mohamadali Vadood, inspiring him to create A Shot at Hyrcania. The work emerges from the concept of his internationally developed project, WOOD ALL WOOD, in which some of the wood fragments used are themselves a century old. The composition moves between geometry and organic form, density and void, color and texture, repetition and difference, and, ultimately, the natural memory of the forest and human…
Last week, at the international CAPFA 2025 event in China, Iranian artist and sculptor Mohamadali Vadood was selected as the “Outstanding Master of Wood Arts of Asia and the Pacific” for 2025.
“Forever a Tree” is Mohamadali Vadood’s compelling project that gives a new life to dead or felled trees.
The wooden artwork Forest Heart by Mohamadali Vadood, created using his distinctive “Naqsh-Bandi” technique, impressed the A’ Design Award in Italy in 2019; an art form born from wood and committed to the environment, inviting us to look at nature with greater attention and understanding
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