Consisting of 30 pieces, the retrospective covers one element of the last ten years of the artist’s life, namely that of painting (he is also a successful installation and video artist).  Grounded in boldly executed form, Darehbaghi uses his paintings to explore the connection of man to the natural world and his own deeply rooted sense of, and bond with, Iranian traditional culture and heritage. Conscious of the fact that no-one can objectively interpret the past however, he modulates this impossibility through a contemporary personal prism of elegiac creativity.

Janet Rady