Unedited History
Art and visual culture in Iran from the 1960s up to the present. Shown in Paris and Rome, 2014 - 2015. Extensive photo documentation.
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No title, 1967
Shutter on wood, 132 x 87 cm
No title, 1974
Oil on aluminium, 70 x 100 cm
While many of his contemporaries wavered between abstract and figurative, Behdjat Sadr (1924-2009) steered towards a non-geometrical kind of abstract painting blending calligraphy and a scientific obsession with movement. Like Bahman Mohasses, his work was typical of the cosmopolitanism of the 1960s and 70s but at the same time questioned the Eurocentric concept of modernism.
Unedited History. Iran 1960-2014
Chapter: The Years of "Modernisation" 1960-1978
© Photo: Haupt & Binder
Art and visual culture in Iran from the 1960s up to the present. Shown in Paris and Rome, 2014 - 2015. Extensive photo documentation.