Deadly nightshade

Deadly nightshade

<span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:small;">Horrors play out in Sanam Khatibi's dreamscapes. A sweet story, on closer inspection, turns out to be incredibly grim. Khatibi paints memories with the precision of a Dutch fine artist and the detailing of a Persian miniaturist – European realism meets the magic of One Thousand and One Nights. This creates the typically 'uncanny' atmosphere of Surrealist art. [text 2023]</span>

Horrors play out in Sanam Khatibi's dreamscapes. A sweet story, on closer inspection, turns out to be incredibly grim. Khatibi paints memories with the precision of a Dutch fine artist and the detailing of a Persian miniaturist – European realism meets the magic of One Thousand and One Nights. This creates the typically 'uncanny' atmosphere of Surrealist art. [text 2023]

Now in the museum in Collectie Centraal

Title

Deadly nightshade

Artist

Sanam Khatibi (Teheran 1979)

Dating

2020

Material and technique

olieverf op doek

Object number

35548

Object type

schilderij

Acquisition

aankoop met steun van het Mondriaan Fonds 2021

Dimensions

hoogte 180 cm

breedte 230 cm

hoogte (met lijst) 182.5 cm

breedte (met lijst) 232.5 cm

diepte (met lijst) 5 cm

Inscriptions and markings

    Documentation

    • Modern love : [or love in the age of cold intimacies], curated by Katerina Gregos, ([Athens, 2022]), pp. 58-61; p. 58, afb. kleur detail, pp.60-61 afb. in kleur, p. 59 tekst

    • Sanam Khatibi : Cyanide, [text: Nicolaas Demoen ; vert. Eng. Jonathan William Beaton, vert. Fr. Marie-Françoise Dispa], (Brussel, 2020)

    • Utrecht, Centraal Museum : Sanam Khatibi, Deadly Nightshade, 2020, Nadeche Remst, (Metropolis M, 6, dec/jan 2021/2022), pp. 56-57 in bijlage

    Exhibitions

    • Collectie Centraal, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 2023

    • Impakt: Modern Love (or Love in the Age of Cold Intimacies), EMST - The National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens, Athene, 2022 - 2023

    • Impakt: Modern Love (or Love in the Age of Cold Intimacies), Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 2021 - 2022

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    https://hdl.handle.net/21.12130/collect.4eed2b60-f3f5-4d7c-b976-1b7941bfbf4b

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