Ali Banisadr exhibits work alongside Gustave Moreau in Paris
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Ali Banisadr, a painter born in Tehran, Iran in 1976 and now based in New York, is displaying his art at the Gustave Moreau Museum in Paris.
The museum was formerly the studio of Gustave Moreau (1826-1898), a French artist. Banisadr selected pieces of his own work, paintings, pastels, drawings, and sculptures, to exhibit with those of Moreau, after the museum invited him to do so. The exhibition, titled “Talisman,” also appears at the Thaddaeus Ropac gallery in Paris.
One painting, also named “Talisman,” features a central figure with a halo, surrounded by creatures and colorful shapes. Other paintings like “Fumée et miroirs” and “Terrible beauté” share a similar style. Banisadr also included bronze sculptures in the exhibition, naming them after figures from mythology such as “Cyclope,” “L’Alchimiste,” and “Gilgamesh,” the legendary king of Mesopotamia whose epic poem is one of Banisadr’s favorite reads. Many other mythologies subtly appear throughout his work.
