There’s a painting in Sassan Behnam-Bakhtiar’s new exhibition, Extremis, that neatly summarises everything intriguing about this emerging Franco-Iranian artist. The combination of bright, blended colours and layering of paint is uplifting: a piece you’d hang in a living room to give it light and life. It took me back to to the wild mountain tulip fields above Tehran, full of life, energy and colour. I felt my skin heat up, as if a light was trying to manifest itself from within, a comforting sense of belonging to something greater at play. He hopes to add to his collection of the artist’s works “while prices are still low” – the average cost of a work from Extremis is around €20,000 (£17,300).

Source: The Guardian October 25, 2019 13:52 UTC