Rafael Mahdavi, Abstract Wood Collage Assemblage Oil Painting Rafael Mahdavi Art Brut Kouros NYC, 1990

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Raphael Mahdavi, Untitled, 1990, Oil and wood collage, assemblage painting on paper, Provenance: Kouros Gallery NYC Label. (label and backing … Read more Raphael Mahdavi, Untitled, 1990, Oil and wood collage, assemblage painting on paper, Provenance: Kouros Gallery NYC Label. (label and backing torn but present) Dimensions: 17.5 x 23 mat, 25 x 32 frame. Rafael Sinclair Mahdavi (1946-) is a painter and sculptor. He has lived and worked in America, France, Greece, Austria, Spain and England. He has quadruple nationality, France, American, Mexican and Iranian. HIs work combines elements of Contemporary, Symbolist Abstraction and Minimalist art in particularly in his sculpture. Cranbrook BFA & Former Parsons Professor. He taught in Paris, Amiens and Issy-les-Moulineaux, France. Rafael Mahdavi was born in 1946 in Mazatlan, Mexico of an American mother and Iranian father. He was home schooled in Mallorca and later attended board boarding schools in London, Madrid and Vienna. He finished art school in the U.S., and fled to Paris, France to avoid being sent to fight in Vietnam. He speaks five languages not including Catalan, has held various jobs ranging from bartender in Pigalle to university professor, and has three passports. He has exhibited his paintings and sculptures internationally, with gallery and museum solo shows. He now divides his time between Burgundy and the Aegean islands. His painting incorporates photograph images, patterning and slashing brush marks. His work is autobiographical, textured and sometimes includes language. Oil painting based on personal surrealist symbolism. He showed with Tibor de Nagy in the 60's and 70's when he was showing the likes of Robert Goodnough, Grace Hartigan, Joyce Kozloff, Rafael Mahdavi, Peter Reginato, Larry Rivers, Jack Tworkov, Carl Andre Rosemarie Castoro, Ray Ciarrocchi, Jane Freilicher, Ann Purcell, Archie Rand, Richard Tum Suden, and Jane Wilson. select group shows 1970 Salon de la Jeune Peinture, Paris 1971 Grands et Jeunes d’Aujourd’hui, Paris 1973 New Talent, Tibor de Nagy, Gallery, New York 1974 Polly Friedlander, Gallery, Seattle 1975 “Tout en Blanc” Iolas Gallery, Paris 1976 “Boites” Musée d’Art Modern de la Ville de Paris (with Donald Judd, Nicolas Schoffer and Varujan Boghosian and others) 1977 “Drawings of the Seventies” Chicago Art Institute 1978 “Photo-Graphie Photo-Constat”, Galerie Stadler, Paris 1979 Galerie Stadler, Paris 1980 Salon de Montrouge, Paris Galerie Farideh Cadot,. “Installation Espace 13”, Paris 1981 Tours Multiple, Tours 1982 Salon de Montrouge, Paris Billboard Art, France 1983 Salon de Montrouge, Paris “Place”, Gimpel Fils Gallery, London “Six du Centre”, American Center, Paris 1984 “Sechs Künstler aus Frankreich”, Klapperhof, Cologne 1985 “Histoire en tant que Résistance”, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle 1986 Salon de Montrouge, Paris 1987 “Kunst in Frankreich”, Ludwig Collection, Koblenz 1988 Galerie Stadler, Paris, Fondation Cartier, Paris 1989 “The Broader Format”, Gimpel Fils Gallery, London 1990 Newton Art Center, Newton, Ma., USA 1991 Collection BNP, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Paris 1993 Triennale des Ameriques, FRAC Nord Pas de Calais 1994 Kouros Gallery, New York (he showed with Arman, Stanley Boxer and Chryssa 1995 Galerie Stadler, Paris 1996 ARCO, Madrid, Galeria Joan Guaita, Galeria Los Oficios, La Habana, Cuba 1998 Musee de Bourbon Lancy, Bourbon Lancy Ecole Superieure d’Art et Design, Amiens 1999 “Etats des Leiux” Musée de Chateauroux 2000 Quoi Peindre Donc?”, Espace Ecureuil, Toulouse 2001 ARCO, Madrid, Galería Joan Guaita 2003 ARCO, Madrid, Galería Joan Guaita Mexico Art Fair, Galería Joan Guaita Kunst Symposium, Kleinbreitenbach, Germany Toronto International Art Fair, Odon Wagner Gallery 2004 Art Fair, Miami, Odon Wagner Gallery Artistes Pérégrins– Art Senat, Paris 2006 Sculpture Grande, Prague Seis Artistas del Siglo XXI, Centro Cultural Juan de Salazar, Asuncion, Paraguay 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale Global Arts Affairs, Palazzo Bembo See less