Amir Shayesteh Tabar

Amir Shayesteh Tabar (Persian: امیر شایسته تبار; born 7 April 1967) is an Iranian artist, painter, poet, and filmmaker. Tabar is best known for "The Blue Symphony", a collection of computer graphic artworks that use the words of the Basmala, بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم (translated as "In the name of God, the most graceful, the most merciful") to create geometric patterns. Beginning in the 1990s, Shayesteh Tabar spent more than 16 years on the completion of "The Blue Symphony" and four years for the calibration of the colours alone.

On 30 September 2022, it was announced by the curatorial committee of Florence Biennale that the motto for the 14th edition, which took place in Florence, Italy, from 14 to 22 October 2023, would be "I am You - Individual and Collective Identities in Contemporary Art and Design" and that the event would be in large part dedicated to the struggle of Iranian women for their rights. On this occasion, Florence Biennale signed an international petition initiated by Shayesteh Tabar, calling for an increased engagement on behalf of the global community of artists to support the cause of the Iranian people as "true artists" and to become the "voice of those who are left without any help".