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The art of the Iranian painter, musician and performance artist Reza Derakshani Edited by Necmi Sönmez, this monograph features the works of Reza Derakshani, showcasing his unique art perspective. Reza Derakshani is a passionate painter. A hallmark of his paintings is their poetic surface; his subjects are figurative but nevertheless not easly deciphered. To understand the historical relevance of Reza Derakshani, his work must be conceived of as the result of a cross between transnational artistic avant-garde, music pratice, and political activity. It operates in synchrony with contemporary avant-garde language and, in profundity, is deeply rooted in Irans Post-Revolution cultural and social context. Since the mid 1980s, Reza Derakshani has been working on his pictorial vocabulary, which is marked by emotional narration, illusive leitmotives and fluent migration references. Derakshani’s work is characterized by a unique lighter scraping technique, greater exposed areas of unprimed canvas, a precarious imaginary, and the introduction of textual traces. His ongoinig series complement this output with mythic, often cryptic, archetypes and allegories. Derakshani’s world of poetic and music quotations is a gateway to a different fluent universe opened up by a multitude of references and ciphers that can be traversed emotively in a Situationist “dérive”.

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Necmi Sönmez received education on art history at Mainz, Paris, Newcastle, and Frankfurt universities and had his PhD at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University on Wolfgang Laib (2000). He has independently carried out several international cooperation based curatorial projects, residency programs at international level and has worked as an adjunct tutor/curator at different museums among them Borusan Contemporary, Tate, Staatliche Museen Berlin, Kiasma, Deutsche Bank KunstHalle, Stiftung Zollverein, Essen, Kunsthaus Göttingen. Alistair Hicks is s writer and curator. He is the author of The Global Art Compass: New Directions in 21st century art, Urban Mirrors: reflections from the artists of Istanbul, The School of London, and New British Art at the Saatchi Gallery. He has recently curated two exhibitions of Paula Rego, one at Kesntergesellscaft Hannover and the other at the Pera Museum In Istanbul. Marcel Dzama: Dancing with Moon is currently being shown at the Pera. For twenty years he was the Senior Curator at Deutsche Bank. Olivia Sand has been writing for the Asian Art Newspaper since the publication’s launch in 1997. She has been among the first journalists to specialize in contemporary art from Asia and subsequently in contemporary art from the Islamic world.

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