Ali Banisadr *
(born in Teheran 1976)
Bots, 2018, oil on canvas, 63.5 x 43.5 x 5.7 cm, framed
Provenance:
BlainISouthern, New York
Private Collection, Northern Germany (acquired from the above in 2018)
Exhibited:
Berlin, BlainISouthern, The World Upside Down, 2018
Literature:
Noura Al-Maashouq, Alkistis Tsampouraki, eds., Ali Banisadr: Vol 2, BlainISouthern, London, 2018
Ali Banisadr's paintings unfold as teeming worlds in which figuration and abstraction continually merge. In Bots, hybrid beings emerge from a swirl of gestural brushstrokes, half organic and half mechanical: armoured bodies, striped limbs and dotted surfaces, a single glowing red eye. Pastel pinks and soft greens collide with deep blues and black, and rhythmic stripes and points of colour charge the surface with restless energy.
Banisadr has often described his painting process as synaesthetic, translating sounds and memories, including those of his childhood in wartime Iran, into visual form. His work draws equally on Bosch and Bruegel, Persian miniature painting and Abstract Expressionism. The title points to our digital present: the "bots" appear as anonymous, swarming agents in a world in flux, at once fascinating and unsettling.
Specialist: Joëlle Romba
(born in Teheran 1976)
Bots, 2018, oil on canvas, 63.5 x 43.5 x 5.7 cm, framed
Provenance:
BlainISouthern, New York
Private Collection, Northern Germany (acquired from the above in 2018)
Exhibited:
Berlin, BlainISouthern, The World Upside Down, 2018
Literature:
Noura Al-Maashouq, Alkistis Tsampouraki, eds., Ali Banisadr: Vol 2, BlainISouthern, London, 2018
Ali Banisadr's paintings unfold as teeming worlds in which figuration and abstraction continually merge. In Bots, hybrid beings emerge from a swirl of gestural brushstrokes, half organic and half mechanical: armoured bodies, striped limbs and dotted surfaces, a single glowing red eye. Pastel pinks and soft greens collide with deep blues and black, and rhythmic stripes and points of colour charge the surface with restless energy.
Banisadr has often described his painting process as synaesthetic, translating sounds and memories, including those of his childhood in wartime Iran, into visual form. His work draws equally on Bosch and Bruegel, Persian miniature painting and Abstract Expressionism. The title points to our digital present: the "bots" appear as anonymous, swarming agents in a world in flux, at once fascinating and unsettling.
Specialist: Joëlle Romba
