TEHRAN -- Two galleries in Tehran are holding a retrospective of painter and sculptor Bahman Mohasses (1921-2010) in a joint project.

Entitled “60 Pieces of a Lost Object”, a selection of artworks containing works from different periods of works are put on display at the Arya and Ab Anbar galleries, the Persian service of Honaronline announced on Wednesday.

Rare abstract works by Mohasses along with his lithographs, sculptures and paintings are on display in both exhibits, Arya Gallery owner said.

Arya Eqbal added that the exhibited artworks are borrowed from among those made available by gallery owners or collectors, and that is why the works are not related to one specific time or topic.

The exhibit is a follow up to the extensive project of reviewing works by contemporary Iranian artists initiated by Arya and Ab-Anbar galleries, the first of which was dedicated to painter Sirak Melkonian.

The two exhibitions opened on May 22 and will run until June 12.

Arya Gallery is located at 10 Zarrin Alley, off Vali-e Asr Ave., and Ab Anbar Gallery can be found at 2 Roshan Manesh Alley, Khaqani St., off Enqelab Ave.
Mohasses was an outstanding painter and sculptor as well as a good translator. Persian translations of works by Italian authors Italo Calvino and Curzio Malaparte, and French authors Eugène Ionesco and Jean Genet are some of his other accomplishments.

Born in 1921 in Rasht, Gilan Province, Mohasses traveled to Europe in 1951 and chose to stay in Rome. He studied at the Academy of Art in Rome, and held several solo and group exhibitions in Italy and other countries.

Mohasses returned to Iran in 1963 and staged the play “The Chairs” by Ionesco. Some years later in 1967, he decided to go back to Italy and continued living in Rome until he died. He used to visit Tehran every now and then but few were in touch with him.

Some of his valuable artworks are preserved in Italy and the United States while others are kept in Iran at the Jahan-Nama Museum of the Niavaran Palace and the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art.

Photo: Works by painter and sculptor Bahman Mohasses are on display at Tehran’s Arya Gallery on May 26, 2015. (Mehr/Hadi Hirbodvash)

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