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Ali Banisadr

Born in 1355, tehran, Iran

Biography

Ali Banisadr’s densely populated paintings are influenced by the artist’s perception of sound as inextricably linked to color and form. Drawing on childhood experiences of the Iran-Iraq war in his native Tehran (where explosions and other aural disturbances were commonplace) as well as his extant synesthesia, Banisadr works painstakingly and intuitively to build complex compositions that exude a vitality at once turbulent and celebratory.
Banisadr draws freely from an encyclopedic knowledge of the history of painting to create a distinctive visual language. Whilst his gestural brushstrokes recall the unbridled energy of de Kooning’s Abstract Expressionism, the work’s intensity of mood and dreamlike detail evokes mid-20th-century surrealism in the vein of Francis Bacon. Much like Old Masters Bruegel and Bosch, whom Banisadr cites as influences, the artist’s work conceives of a concurrent, existentially absurd flurry of activity as seen from above. As the lower portions of the picture planes brim with carnivalesque energy, the upper halves achieve balance in their calming sense of distance, functioning like the flattened, scenic backdrop of a theatre stage. Banisadr’s oscillating use of cool and warm tones works to denote either landscape or flesh, though the abstracted forms, fading in and out of focus like figures from a dream, resist total comprehension.
Ali Banisadr lives and works in New York City. The artist is currently the subject of a solo exhibition at the Museo Stefano Bardini & Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. He was recently the subject of solo museum exhibitions at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum, Hartford, CT; the Benaki Museum, Athens; Gemäldegalerie, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, and Het Noordbrabants Museum, Den Bosch, Netherlands. In 2013, his work was included in "Love Me/Love Me Not, Contemporary Art from Azerbaijan and its Neighbors," The 55th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, and “Expanded Painting," Prague Biennale 6.

Auctions participated by Ali Banisadr

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Foot Soldier
2016|FootSoldier
18,900
15,000-20,000
It Happened 1
2011 | It Happened 1
31,500
25,000-35,000 Pound
Divine Wind
2012 | Divine Wind
92,500
20,000-30,000 Dollar
What's Yours is Mine
2008 | What's Yours is Mine
81,250
30,000-40,000 Dollar
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Art Fairs participated by Ali Banisadr

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Artworks of Ali Banisadr

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ملکه‌ی شب
2022 | ملکه‌ی شب
208.3×304.8 cm
Thinkpol
2021 | Thinkpol
92.1×114.9 cm
Underworld
2021 | Underworld
223×167 cm
Beautiful Lies
2021 | Beautiful Lies
223×167 cm
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