Hassan Azizi

Hassan Azizi (born 3 November, 1981) is a designer and sculptor. He tries to make sculptures in different scales and functions. After graduating in architecture in 2006 from Tehran Art University, he worked for 5 years in different architecture studios in Tehran, where he lived. With a background in presentation, design and theory research, he went to Italy to find out new aspects in his perception of design. He spent three years there, where he started to make wooden abstract sculptures, when he was a student of sustainable architecture in “Politecnico di Torino”.  After graduation, he studied and experienced natural organic forms in combination with mass and space. As one of the results of such a study, he founded his studio, where he started to design wooden pencils as small sculptures. 

He started the “Ramz Studio”, then reformed it to his personal brand “HA Design”, as well as gradually leaving the architecture as a job. He has made more than 3000 handmade pencils and other objects heretofore. And has shown them in some galleries in Iran and Italy. He has participated two times in Milan Design Week, showing his pencils and small wooden sculptures. As well as moving between Iran and Italy, he is in movement among different new experiences in design and art.

Human behavior is patternable during a day and night.  ”  “25 o’clock” is a wall sculpture consisting of 25 wooden pieces of the same size and arranged in a 5*5 grid, which follows this patternability; An interpretation that creates an objective aspect of a practical phenomenon (behavior) by using a combination of abstract forms. 

Each piece of wood is representative of a specific time of day, in terms of how the person’s atmosphere has taken shape in terms of ideas, context and behavior. The total arrangement demonstrates how a day has been spent.

Along the days and months, the pieces’ arrangement changes many times as well as the content of the pieces. This change goes through complexity and simplicity. Therefore, the formation of each piece should be capable of representing both complex and simple codes. 

We move like a pendulum between simple or complex arrangements of simplicity or complexity; and then it will be at rest forever: “25 o’clock”.