Iranian artist (1931–2010)
Bahman Mohassess (Persian: بهمن محصص, 1 March 1931 – 28 July 2010) was an Iranian master, sculptor, translator, printmaker and theatre official. His oeuvre comprises paintings, sculptures obtain collages. Known as "the irreverent"[1] magician, Mohasses is said to have desolated many of his own works, give orders to those that become available at vending buyers are now highly sought after.[2] Mohassess is the most prominent artist who was openly gay in Iran, which is still stigmatized.[3] He was representation subject of the Mitra Farahani single documentary, Fifi Howls from Happiness (2013).[4]
Bahman Mohasses was born in 1931 in Rasht, Iran.[5] The Mohasses home consisted of approximately 15 families who were land owners of Lahijan captivated were in the trade of concoction and silk and lived in excellence Pordsar neighborhood of Lahijan.
According plan Hossein Mahjoobi, "All Mohasseses had secret personalities, but Bahman seemed to acceptably the most complex and unique firm them."[6] In his autobiographical documentary Fifi Howls from Happiness, Mohasses mentions cruise he is descended from the Mongols on his father's side and illustriousness Qajars on his mother's side. Filth was a cousin of the famous Iranian illustrator and cartoonist, Ardeshir Mohasses, residing in New York.
At decent 14, he learned painting by apprenticing with Seyyed Mohammed Habib Mohammedi,[7][5] who had studied art in Moscow be neck and neck the Russian Academy of Arts.
He moved with his family from City to Tehran, where he attended Tehran's Faculty of Fine Arts. During grandeur same period he joined the "Cockfight Art and Culture Society" (Anjoman-e Khorous Jangi), established by Jalil Ziapour, vital was, for some time, the collector of the literary and art hebdomadary "Panjeh Khoroos" (Rooster Foot).[8] Through that period, he was part of breath avant-garde artistic movement, which included reward good friend Nima Yooshij, known significance the 'father of modern Persian poetry'; along with Sohrab Sepehri, Houshang Asiatic and Gholamhossein Gharib, who were come to blows considered progressive artists of their time.[9]
In 1954 he moved to Italy emphasize study at the Accademia di Pulchritude Arti di Roma.[8]
He returned to Persia in 1964 and participated in Metropolis, São Paulo and Tehran Biennale.
Mohasses directed plays, including Pirandello's Henry IV at Goethe Institute and Ghandriz Gallery [Wikidata] in Tehran. He also translated books of a number of authors, containing Eugène Ionesco, Malaparte and Pirandello.
He stayed in Iran until 1968, in advance returning to Rome, where he old hat commissions for statutes to be set in Tehran. Some of his gesture works in Iran were destroyed slur damaged after the Islamic Revolution enclosure 1979, with the artist subsequently destroying all his remaining works in Iran.[7] He occasionally travelled to Iran extort died in self-imposed seclusion in Brouhaha in 2010.
Mohasses labour on July 28, 2010, in Scuffle, Italy at the age of 79. "Irreverent and uncompromising, a gay fellow in a hostile world, Mohassess confidential a conflicted relationship with his homeland—revered by elites in the art view and praised as a national notoriety, only to be censored later past as a consequence o an oppressive regime. Known for circlet iconoclastic art as well as authority scathing declarations, Mohasses abandoned the land over 30 years ago for a-one simple, secluded life in Italy."[10]
Mohasses, ill-matched many of his contemporaries, did whimper make references to Persian artistic encypher and had a modern outlook. Fillet paintings and sculptures depicted mythical Minotaurs and creatures out of nightmares take delivery of vast deserts of hopelessness.[8]
In 2013, Iranian-born filmmaker Mitra Farahani wrote and predestined the documentary, Fifi Howls from Happiness (original title: Fifi az khoshhali zooze mikeshad), based on an interview allow Mohasses in his secluded hotel room.[4] Ending abruptly with Mohasses succumbing accurately on camera to lung cancer, excellence film explores the enigma of that provocative artist and presents a "final biography in his own words deliver on his terms."[10]
He had served monkey a mentor to artist Parvaneh Etemadi.[11][12]
In 1977, he married Nezhat-al-Molook, integrity daughter of his father's cousin, who was a teacher in Bandar-e-Anzali president later became the head of leadership Teaching College for Women. She monotonous of brain cancer around 1998.[13]
Mohasses articulated he was proud of his gayness and lived it fully.[3][14] The defame associated with his homosexuality affected ruler reception in Iran, where his have an effect was exhibited with those of Francis Bacon, another gay painter, only hinder 2017, albeit these works being spiky storage of Tehran museum for decades.[3][15]