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Born 1991/09/14 Kashan Known for Graffiti, Street art, Underground art, Sculpture, Islamic graffiti, Social commentary, Design | ||
Persian graffiti for sohrab sepehri by reza rioter
Reza Rioter (Persian: رضا ریوتر) is an Iranian graffiti artist. He started graffiting in Kashan, in 2006. Because of Rioter's art and influence, people know Kashan as one of the first Iranian cities to contain graffiti and street art.
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Career
Reza Rioter started art field in 2006. Being an amateur rapper, he started his work in Kashan . He was familiar with graffiti therefore, he gave up his music dream. In the beginning, he did most of his graffiti in Aran va Bidgol City (until 2011). After which he stayed active in Ghotb Ravandi Bolvar for almost two years.
Since 2013, he has graffiti'd main streets in Kashan, including 15 Khordad Square and various other places.
In 2010, Rioter used the web as a promotional platform to promote his art of graffiti with a change in style and presentation using Persian letters so that more viewers could visit his talent. He was one of the first artist who was known for graffiti with the Persian Alphabet.
Information increase
Understanding that the Social media, the internet, is the roadmap to gain recognition, many Iranian graffiti writers availed and gained popularity..Reza,occasionally published his talents and expected that the Iranian can get familiar with graffiti art, He too shared his art . That its help to become getting up in art society.
He tried a lot that people got familiar with this modern art and accept it, and it was hard work in a traditional city like Kashan with old fashioned culture.
Recent activities and controversy
he wrote some essays about graffiti that were published in a lot of sties.
In 2014 he started to publish his first videograf in different sties which in first weak 17,000 people visited it just in facebook
Over the last years Reza Rioter has appeared numerous times in Videograf, for example: In 2015 he released his second videograf that was an objection video and it was mad to do honor to Sohrab Sepehri a famous poet of Kashan , in this video Rioter protested why there is Graffiti on street in Kashan which called Sohrab Sepehri Street?
In the Some year Reza Rioter took part in a radio program about graffiti, this documentary was the first documentary made by Iranian governmental media regarding the graffiti art, after that Rioter announced that his statement have been censored a lot.
Recently Rioter do a graffiti in the wall which was covered by cloth in the main street of kashan. This graffiti has bunch of purl and noise. After finishing the work at night? graffiti was expunged secretly by municipality which issued the license after a few days they issued the continuing of the work? but after finishing the work of graffiti they expunge it again because they were under the pressure by higher or greater organ
Arrests
In 2015 Rioter was arrested by morality police (Iran, Kashan), under the charge of graffiti, social and political reasons and was held in Kashan Prison for four days at Ward 4.