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Bio Parvaneh Roudgar moved to Canada in 1999 from Italy. She began her journey in art in 1986 at the Artistic Lyceum in Florence under the instructions of her Professor of sculpture Antonio Di Tommaso, and Professor of ceramics and world famous artist Marcello Fantoni. She concluded her art studies at the Fine Art Academy of Florence. She specialized in ceramics at the Marcello Fantoni Ceramic School and in plaster and casting at the University of Arts of "Eta' Libera" in Florence. She received her certificate in working with stones at the Art school of Porta Romana in Florence. She has had many exhibitions and has won many awards in Italy and internationally. In 2000, she was commissioned by the Environmental Society of Iran a project to design and create a model for an outdoor sculpture. The project has been reproduced in large numbers and installed in retrofitted traditional homes and historical sites across the country. She was also commissioned in the same year by the mayor of Tehran (Iran) to create a trophy to reward various individuals of environmental preservationists. In 2009, she won the competition for outdoor sculpture from the City of Anacortes in Washington city. Her Cosmos flower is installed in the city. |
| Prizes 1993 - First Prize at "Gadarte" art competition (Italy).1992 - First Prize in sculpture at the "Giuseppe Pescetti" art competition (Italy). 1991 - First International Prize at the Painting-Graphics-Sculpture-Poetry organized by A.S.A.P in Florence. One Woman Exhibitions 2001 - Italian Cultural Center, Vancouver1996 - Fine Arts Society (Casa di Dante, Florence) 1992 - A.S.A.P, Florence Joint Exhibitions 2010 - Legacy 2010, Art Gallery of Penticton,Penticton, BC2009 - Vandusen Botanical Garden, Vancouver, BC 2009 - Port Moody Arts Center, Port Moody, BC 2008 - Vandusen Botanical Garden, Vancouver, BC 2007 - Blackberry Gallery, Port Moody, BC 2007 - Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC 2007 - District of North Vancouver City Hall, North Vancouver, BC 2006 - Vandusen Botanical Garden, Vancouver, BC 2006 - West Vancouver Memorial Library, Vancouver,BC 2006 - PendulumGallery, Vancouver, BC 2005 - West Vancouver Memorial Library, Vancouver, BC 2005 - Pendulum Gallery, Vancouver, BC 2005 - Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC 2005 - Seyhoun Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca. 2004 - Places Des Arts, Coquitlam, BC 2003 - Art Council of Burnaby, BC 2002 - Portfolio Art Gallery, Vancouver 2002 - Halt's Show Case, Vancouver 2002 - Art in the City, Vancouver 2001 - Ishtar Art Gallery, Vancouver 2000 - Venetian Dance, Vancouver 1999 - Gruppo Donatello, Florence, Joint Exhibition with Antonio Di Tommaso 1992-98 - Fine Arts Society "Casa Di Dante", Florence 1991 - Antica Compagnia del Paiolo, Florence Memberships 2004 - present - Sculptors' Society of British Columbia (SSBC)1999 - Gruppo Donatello 1992-98 - Casa di Dante, Florence |
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| Critics from the Professors of the Academy of Belle Arte in Florence Antonio Di Tommaso Nov 1st, 1998 The sculptress Parvaneh Roudgar presence her work with great diffidence, as thought she were afraid of appearing intrusive and in adequate in front of quite different artistic work, But a different and modest character can have positive effect on the personal creative journey of an artist, producing dense works of broad meaning and deep significance, worthy of recognition and acknowledgment. Today, we too often encounter "false talents that make themselves known, doing whatever be necessary to get a reputation. Our sculptress, on the other hand, prefers to follow her own ideas and convictions, taking in everything around her, and translating it into high quality sculpture. Her "construction sculptures" arise from analysis of the concept of "geometric abstraction" an analysis deriving from an ancient Persian culture which has been characterized by such qualities for thousands of years, and also fundamental to the history of art in the west. Parvaneh Roudgar is a great technical master in the modeling of clay, transforming it into beautiful terracotta or refined ceramics. In these neat figures, which weave together arches and triangles and planes, we sense the purity and harmony of form as well as the perceptive sensibility and artistic rigor of the artist who modeled them. I look forward to seeing Parvaneh Roudgar continue her sculptural researchers by means of "construction forms" or "Architectural geometries", hoping it continues to be marked by know well established harmony of line, and always regulated by that professional discipline without which it will never be possible to achieve worthwhile and innovative works of arts. Attilio Bellanca Aug 15th, 1996 Interdisciplinary development of investigation into the link between the abstract and figurative has founds roots in the work of Parvaneh Roudgar. As a sculptress Parvaneh Roudgar deals with the complex problems arising from acceptance both of the academic and naturalistic worlds, bringing everything within the laws of optics and perspective. Her vision thus emblematically synthesized derives from the highly idealized train of thought, enabling her to maintain the creative ideal intact while offering great comprehensibility. The work entitled "Intenzionalita' Gemellari", expresses rare inner sensibility of great beauty, such as inspired the great artists of the past and which Parvaneh Roudgar now translates into her modern idiom, enriching that future which is already hers. The polished bronze sculpture "Intenzionalita' Gemellari" composed of two equal pyramidal modules on transparent based, intersecting with each other, Exposed in their vertical approached to the sensory impression of light, assumes a value of renewal, where creativity is growth, richness and spiritual witness of a gift which only the human race possessor. The sculpture in its entirely is beautiful for with it presents again and for its veiled reference to ancient values. It is a homage which Parvanhe's Roudgar renders as and which form the third millennium, because there is no doubt that the sculptress is sowing the seeds for those roots of artistic development which will unite all people. |