Ali Banisadr's "Talisman" Opens at Thaddaeus Ropac Paris Marais Through October 2026
Ali Banisadr's individual exhibition titled "Talisman" is currently on display at Thaddaeus Ropac Paris Marais until 10 October 2026. Concurrently, he has a carte blanche at the Musée national Gustave Moreau and presents "Temple of the Mind" at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum. These exhibitions delve into the transformation of vision into experience. The Buffalo show emphasizes the convergence of perception, memory, and imagination, while the Paris exhibition highlights the remnants of creation in each piece, hinting at an alternate concept of time. Banisadr's artworks, such as "Smoke & Mirrors" (2026) and "Terrible Beauty" (2026), merge drawing, painting, and sculpture, embodying themes of surfacing, disturbance, and trace, with the talisman symbolizing the work's lasting impact beyond its initial setting.
Key facts
- "Talisman," Ali Banisadr's exhibition at Thaddaeus Ropac Paris Marais, runs until 10 October 2026
- The show is in dialogue with a carte blanche at the Musée national Gustave Moreau and with "Temple of the Mind" at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum
- Works on view include "Smoke & Mirrors" (2026), "Terrible Beauty" (2026) and "Before the world shattered, I was a part of you" (2026)
- Banisadr works across drawing, painting, sculpture and pastel
- Gustave Moreau is presented as the historical interlocutor closest to Banisadr's conception of the symbol as an open structure
- Robert Storr contributed a dialogue with Banisadr published in "The Alchemist"
- John Vincler wrote on the layering of images in Banisadr's work
- Albert Pinkham Ryder, Hieronymus Bosch and Francisco Goya form the art-historical constellation referenced in the exhibition
Entities
Artists
- Ali Banisadr
- Gustave Moreau
- Albert Pinkham Ryder
- Hieronymus Bosch
- Francisco Goya
- Robert Storr
- John Vincler
- Éric Simon
Institutions
- Thaddaeus Ropac Paris Marais
- Musée national Gustave Moreau
- Buffalo AKG Art Museum
- The Alchemist
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- Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
Locations
- Paris
- France
- Buffalo
- United States
- Tehran
- Iran
- New York
- Marais