ALI BANISADR
Thought to be one of the hits present at this New York’s edition is Ali Banisadr. Hosting gallery Sperone Westwater will be showing some works by this artist, originally born in Iraq but who eventually moved to the United States in order to pursue what really did look like a promising and meteoric career. As you would expect, his aesthetic evoques the cruelty of war and all the dreadful byproducts, and it’s mainly known for referencing, aesthetically speaking, all the suffering caused by the ravaging wars that successively took place in his home country in the nineties. What really moves him is being able to confront the usual traditionalism present in Art History, and his artworks tend to arouse feelings such as nostalgia, sadness, the toughness and harsh consequences of the war or even melancholy at its finest level.