Ali Banisadr exhibits alongside Gustave Moreau in Paris
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Ali Banisadr, a painter born in Tehran in 1976 and currently living in New York, is displaying his work within the former studio and museum of Gustave Moreau (1826-1898) in Paris.
The museum invited Banisadr to create an exhibition alongside Moreau’s paintings, pastels, and drawings, and he has also included sculptures, a new medium for him. Both exhibitions share the title “Talisman,” inspired by one of Moreau’s paintings that features a central, haloed figure surrounded by mythical creatures and symbols.
Banisadr’s paintings, such as Smoke and Mirrors and Terrible Beauty, also draw on mythology, with his sculptures named after figures like the cyclops and Gilgamesh, a legendary Mesopotamian king. The exhibitions currently run at the Musée Gustave Moreau and the Thaddaeus Ropac gallery in Paris.
