Kasmin is delighted to announce the opening of Ali Banisadr / MATRIX 185 at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Connecticut. In the artist’s first solo museum exhibition in the U.S., ten paintings and two prints by Banisadr join a selection of works from the Wadsworth collection chosen by the artist, as well as a video collage that Banisadr created to show additional works from the museum’s collection that have captured his imagination.
Occupying the liminal space of fantasies and dreams, Ali Banisadr’s dynamic paintings explore intangible worlds balancing figuration and abstraction, order and disorder, energy and entropy. The artist’s process has been related to synesthesia—an internal response to sound that takes visual form as energy and rhythm in his painterly compositions. This creative approach began in Iran, when he was a boy, in response to bombings during the Iran-Iraq War. Fleeing first to Turkey, then California, and now living in New York, Banisadr’s life experiences have fueled his interest in different cultures, art history, and the current events that inform his art. Hallucinogenic or monochromatic color palettes heighten the drama of veiled masses in motion or commotion as if on a stage. He differentiates individual figures by pattern and style, variously applying paint with brushes, rags, and sticks. Like an all-seeing eye, Banisadr observes and considers societies past, present, and future.
To plan your trip to see the exhibition, please visit the Wadsworth's website. The museum is currently open to the public with scheduled tickets.

PUBLIC PROGRAMS :
October 23 | A virtual gallery talk with Ali Banisadr
November 20 | Ali Banisadr & Robert Hobbs in Conversation

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