Exhibition
Azadeh Razaghdoost: Recipe for a Poem
24 Nov 2016 – 18 Feb 2017
Regular hours
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- 11 Grosvenor Street
- Mayfair
- London
- W1K 4QB
- United Kingdom
Sophia Contemporary Gallery is pleased to present 15 recent paintings by Iranian artist Azadeh Razaghdoost for her first solo exhibition in the UK.
About
Razaghdoost's lyrical paintings are inspired by 19th century European poetry of the Romantic Age, in particular ”The Sick Rose“ (1794) by British poet William Blake and the volume of poetry “Les fleurs du mal“ (1857) by French poet Charles Baudelaire. Through poetry she explores the contradictions inherent to human nature, using the emotional associations of the colour red, a signifier of love, passion and blood, to refer to humanistic states and impulses from health and sickness, to life and death, and love and lust.
Born in 1979 in Tehran, Iran, Azadeh Razaghdoost received her BA in Painting from Tehran’s University of Art in 2002. She currently lives and works in Karaj, Iran. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Vallpalou Foundation, Lleida, Spain and has been widely exhibited internationally.