Ali Banisadr in conversation with Mitra Abbaspour at Princeton Unniversity
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Kasmin is pleased to announce that Ali Banisadr's Return to Mother (2022) is on view in the Mathey College Common Room at Princeton University through Fall 2023. On the occasion of the installation of the work, Banisadr will join Mitra Abbaspour, Haskell Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, in conversation on Thursday, April 13 at 5:30PM.
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 (1980-88) in his native Tehran, where explosions and other aural disturbances were commonplace, as well as his extant synesthesia, Banisadr painstakingly and intuitively builds complex compositions that exude a vitality at once turbulent and celebratory. -
About the Artist
Ali Banisadr
Ali Banisadr lives and works in New York City. The artist has recently been the subject of solo museum exhibitions at the Museo Stefano Bardini & Palazzo Vecchio, Florence; 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.Learn More
Banisadr’s work is included in significant public collections worldwide, including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; the British Museum, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Het Noordbrabants Museum, Den Bosch, Netherlands; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum der Moderne, Salzburg; the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT.