updated December 2021
Iran Darroudi, renowned Iranian surrealist painter, director, and screenwriter, was born on September 2, 1936 to a well-to-do family in Mashhad. Blessed by the family fortune, young Iran was educated first in Hamburg, Germany, and later on in Paris – at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts and the École du Louvre – where she developed her distinctive modern style, as well as in Belgium and at the RCA Institute in New York City. Art critics often praise her abstraction of Persian motifs and imagery delicately combined with elements of Surrealism with a touch of romanticism expressed by way of strong lighting – an Eastern spirit not left unnoticed by masters of the art such as Salvador Dali.
Ove eight decades of prolific life, Darroudi passionately pursued her artistic endeavors and lived between Paris and Tehran, having left behind over sixty solo exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world and tens of documentaries. She passed away on October 29, 2021 at the age of 85 in Tehran after three months of battle with Covid-19 aftereffects.
The cover of volume #03 displays a detail of an artwork by late Iran Darroudi created during the 1980s. The detail encompasses her exemplary white flowers soaring over sharp-lit ruins resembling the long-lasting grandeur of the Persian Empire.
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