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Bahman Dadkhah (Iran, born 1941)
Passage
bronze
signed "Dadkhah 94" and numbered "2/8" (on base), executed in 1994, the present work is number two from an edition of eight
55 x 25cm (21 5/8 x 9 13/16in).
bronze
signed "Dadkhah 94" and numbered "2/8" (on base), executed in 1994, the present work is number two from an edition of eight
55 x 25cm (21 5/8 x 9 13/16in).
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Provenance:
Property from a private collection, Paris
"When I see a head from a great distance, it ceases to be a sphere and becomes an extreme confusion falling down into the abyss" – Alberto Giacometti
Elongated, coarse and ethereal, Dadkhah's "Passage" series attempts to capture in sculpture the narrow fault lines between body and spirit, in an attempt to give physical embodiment to mans primal qualities.
Inspired by Giacometti, whose sculptures focused on the relationship between the body and the void and the "erosion" that man underwent by his surroundings, Dadkhah depicts figures who are at once monumental yet fading.
Giacometti once commented that "space is a cancer on being and eats everything", similarly, Dadkhah's figure almost evaporates upwards, slowly shedding the weight of existence, which for Dadkhah as with Sartre, was considered as much a burden as it was a privilege.
As such, Dadkhah's figure does not rue, but solemnly embraces its physical exhaustion; with head tilted upwards it is drawn magnetically to a celestial unknown, where the shackles of physicality and afflictions of the flesh find their cessation.