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Dislocated Modernism: The Interstices of Mythology and Destruction in the Works of Bahman Mohasses
In this talk, Dr. Honarpisheh situates works by modernist painter and sculptor, Bahman Mohasses, within the wake of the 1953 coup d'état that toppled Mossadegh in Iran as well as within a broader global critique of state violence. Mohasses was a figure who subverted artistic conventions, art historical movements, and national narratives through an expression of figurative abstraction and other medium-specific experimentations between painting, sculpture, and collage. In an analysis that moves between the aesthetic and political conditions of Mohasses' art making, this paper argues that Mohasses turns to destruction as a condition of possibility to express and critique the perpetual violence of his time.
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