Ali Banisadr in conversation with Mitra Abbaspour at Princeton Unniversity

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.

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