Mehdi Ghadyanloo valuation
Painted a hundred walls in Tehran, most of them doorways and staircases that are not there.
Mehdi Ghadyanloo was born in Karaj, outside Tehran, in 1981 and painted well over a hundred large public murals across that city from the mid-2000s, mostly architectural illusions — staircases, tunnels, openings onto impossible skies — introduced onto blank concrete in a city with little public art.
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Bio
Mehdi Ghadyanloo was born in Karaj, outside Tehran, in 1981 and painted well over a hundred large public murals across that city from the mid-2000s, mostly architectural illusions — staircases, tunnels, openings onto impossible skies — introduced onto blank concrete in a city with little public art. The studio paintings that followed keep the same vocabulary at gallery scale: flat light, long shadows, small figures in vast constructed spaces, closer to metaphysical painting than to street art.
Unique paintings on canvas are the market, with a limited output of editions. The surfaces are smoothly and evenly painted with large uninterrupted fields, which is unforgiving of condition problems — a scuff or stretcher-bar mark across a flat expanse of sky is conspicuous in a way it would not be on a worked surface. Provenance is generally straightforward through the representing galleries and is worth assembling before a sale.
The Bureau of Beautification, London and Boston
Ghadyanloo grew up on his family's farm in Karaj, graduated in painting from the University of Tehran in 2004 and later took a master's degree in animation at Tarbiat Modares University. In 2006 he answered an open call from Tehran's Bureau of Beautification, and by 2014 he had painted more than 100 murals on the city's blank walls.
His first exhibition in Britain, Perception, was at the Howard Griffin Gallery in London in 2015, and in 2017 he showed Space of Hope at Ambika P3. The same year he painted a mural for the Rose Kennedy Greenway in Boston, the first Iranian artist since 1979 to complete public commissions in both Iran and the United States, and in 2018 he painted Rebuilding the Sky in Almetyevsk, Russia.
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