Born in 1937, Ali Akbar Sadeghi is a contemporary painter, animator, and illustrator who shows a surreal atmosphere in his works based on Iranian “ghahveh-khaneh” (coffeehouse) art. In his evocative paintings, Sadeghi draws on the rich traditions of Persian art but adds to them a surreal edge that involves dizzying spatial manipulations and startling combinations of real and fantastical objects, producing breath-taking kaleidoscopes of color and form. A master story-teller, the varied Persian sources of Sadeghi’s tales range from historical Persian iconography including swords, horses, gardens and warriors, intricate decorative motifs and patterns taken from classic rugs, to the compositions of archetypal Iranian miniatures and portraits, particularly those of the Qajar dynasty.
The cover art for volume #05 of The Persian Literature Review is by Ali-Akbar Sadeghi, from the Needles [میخها] collection. For more information about him and his surrealist collections, see here.
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