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[Artist Biography]
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Derakshani works in long, open-ended series, as though determined to exhaust the formal and emotional potentialities of each chosen theme. It seems he never does and he revisits the same subject matter time and time again. More often than not, his creations reference Iran's splendid cultural history, its wisdom literature, morality tales and allusions to universal spiritual truths embedded in the metaphysical poetry of Attar, Hafez, Sa'adi and Rumi. They are the source of complex metaphors like the nightingale and the rose, the garden in bloom, the hunt, the wine cup and mirror figure, etc - motifs with deep spiritual/religious and secular/political resonance in Iranian society - and ubiquitous in Derakshani's post-1980's oevre. (Dr Christa Paula)
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Reza Derakshani
Bloody Hunting, 2010
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Reza Derakshani
Distortion No. 3, 2010
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Reza Derakshani
Distortion No. 4, 2010
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Reza Derakshani
She is happy not to be here, 2009
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