Mehdi Ghadyanloo

Mehdi Ghadyanloo
Nationality Iranian
Known for mural painting

Mehdi Ghadyanloo is an Iranian painter. His work makes use of trompe-l'œil and shows the influence of Surrealism;[1][2] he has been compared to Magritte.[3] In 2006, on commission from the city authorities, he started painting large-scale murals on bare walls in the city of Tehran; he has painted more than 100 of them.[1] [4] In 2015 he visited London for an exhibition of his "indoor" paintings, and painted murals there also,[3] including one in Shoreditch.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Jonathan Jones (26 February 2015). Tehran's answer to Banksy: Medhi Ghadyanloo hits Britain. Guardian. Accessed June 2015.
  2. ↑ Roxane Zand (28 May 2015). Street Art or Fine Art?. Sotheby's. Accessed June 2015.
  3. 1 2 Emily Gosling (9 March 2015). Mehdi Ghadyanloo – "a Magritte of our times". It's Nice That. Accessed June 2015.
  4. ↑ Katherine Brooks (28 May 2014). Iranian Artist Has Covered Over 100 Of Tehran's Walls In Surreal Street Art. Huffington Post. Accessed November 2015.
  • Pamela Karimi (2008). “Imagining Warfare, Imaging Welfare: Tehran's Post Iran-Iraq War Murals and their Legacy,” in Persica: Uitgave van het Genootschap Nederland-Iran.
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