Bani sadr biography of martin

Ali Banisadr was born in 1976 in Tehran, Iran. He moved to California with his family when he was a child and later attended the School of Visual Arts, New York, until 2005 and the New York Academy of Art, from which he graduated in 2007. He had his first solo exhibition at Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects in New York in 2008.

Banisadr’s work is characterised by dream-like, hallucinatory and often chaotic landscapes. This subject matter is inspired by childhood memories, imaginary scenes, the history of painting and sound. Banisadr has synaesthesia (the ability to experience sound visually). As a young boy during the Iran-Iraq War, Banisadr would draw to create a visual understanding of the sounds of explosions and air raids. These internal noises guide his mark making on the canvas and plate to create layered compositions of disordered forms and figures.

Banisadr’s work has been internationally exhibited, with recent solo shows having taken place in the Palazzo Vecchio and Museo, Florence (2021); Benaki Museum, Athens (2020); Wadsworth Atheneum, Connecticut (2020); The Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (2019); Het Noordbrabants Museum, Hertogenbosch, Netherlands (2019); The Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, USA (2019); Blain Southern, Berlin (2018); Sperone Westwater, New York (2017) and Galerie Thaddeaus Ropac, Paris (2015), which marked his fourth solo exhibition with the gallery up until that point.

Recent group exhibitions include Royal Academy of Arts, London; Vanhaerents Art Collection, Lille 3000, The Tripostal in Lille, France (2023); Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Asia Society, New York; Orlando Museum of Art, Florida (2021); The Frist Museum, Nashville (2018); The Chrysler Museum of Art, Virginia (2018); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2018); The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (2017); The British Museum, London (2016) and Grimm Gallery, Amsterdam (2016). In 2019, his work was featured in a group exhibition at Galerie

These references reveal themselves not as static, sedimentary layers but as successive waves or currents, series of abstract and semi-abstract forms that flow together, intermingle or collide, submerging and resurfacing, recast and transformed through an often-lengthy process of subtraction and addition. While up-close, elements of the artist’s compositions may recall Bosch-ian hybrid figures, from afar Banisadr’s paintings, with their legions of strafing lines, arcs, blurs and smears of colour evoke, for example, grand world landscapes or the fractured and shimmering surfaces of our digital world.

Their narratives – earthly, celestial, pacific or war-like – unfold in grand, ranging dramas that are informed, though far from defined, by the artist’s own life story. Born in Tehran in 1976, Banisadr left Iran with his family in 1988 at the end of the eight-year Iran-Iraq war, moving briefly to Turkey, then to the US. Living in California for twelve years, first in San Diego then San Francisco, the artist was exposed to graffiti culture at an early age. He participated in the Mission School of graffiti in San Francisco, before attending SVA (School of Visual Arts) for his BFA, later earning an MFA from New York Academy of Art.

Like artists before him, most famously Wassily Kandinsky, Banisadr is a synaesthete who perceives visions in sound. He has spoken of how he first became aware of his synaesthesia, with one sense triggering another, during his childhood in Iran when he would draw ‘to create a visual understanding of the sounds I was hearing – the vibrations, explosions and air raids.’

Sound continues to guide his brushstrokes – their tempo and pressure – as well as the process of bringing together often contradictory elements, which he describes as reaching ‘a certain type of harmony that I find in organising chaotic fragments into a unified symphony.’ While a sens

Iranian politician

Salaheddin Bayani (Persian: صلاح‌الدین بیانی) was an Iranian politician who served as a member of Parliament of Iran from 1980 to 1984.

Early life and education

Bayani was born in 1938 in the city of Khaf, Khorasan to Habibollah, a farmer. He obtained a bachelor's degree in law and became a civil servant.

Political career

Bayani was elected in the 1980 Iranian legislative election. Sympathetic towards PresidentAbolhassan Banisadr, he was the only member of the parliament who spoke in his favor during the impeachment process. He argued that he will vote against the motion, because "the party in power (Islamic Republican Party) did not want Banisadr from the start, but the people did, which is why they gave him 11 million votes and keep supporting him now".

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