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Tibor de Nagy Gallery, Inc.
29 W 57 NYC 10019 Tel. 421-3780

Raphael Mahdavi
New Paintings: March 8-27 1975

Reprint Baseler Zeitung December 21, 1974

"Mahdavi's art is unusual. Photographs of inanimate objects, propellers, scissors, planes and signs are delicately drawn in pastels and then painted into life over backrounds of mountains, or infinitely reaching plateaus or vast expanses of water and sky.

The paintings draw upon an elemental human energy. They possess a harmony, and tranquility of almost universal appeal. Has Mahdavi accomplished what has never yet been achieved? Do the paintings he simply calls Landscapes suggest a deeper meaning; the suggestion of visual matter drawn into a cultural cul de sac.

Perhaps the art loving public sensed this particular quality which for want of a better word I'll call cosmic, and it moved them to empty the booths of Mahdavi's paintings at this years art fair."

One Man Exhibitions
1970-Paris. Galerie Zunini
1972-Chicago. Richard Feigen Gallery
1973-Teharan. Iran-America Society
1973-Torino. Galleria Documenta
1973-Busto Arsizio, Milano. Galleria Bambaia
1973-New York, Tibor de Nagy Gallery
1974-Loerrach, West Germany. Galerie im Riesgaessli
1975-New York, Tibor de Nagy Gallery
1975-Madrid. Galeria Juana Mordo(December)

Group Exhibitions
1970-Paris. Salon de la Jeune Peinture
1971-Paris. "Grands et Jeunes d'Aujourd'hui"
1973-New York. "New Talent" Tibor de Nagy Gallery
1974-Los Angeles. Ruth S. Schaffner Gallery
1975-Hanover. Brusberg Gallery

Selected Bibliography
Badische Zeitung, (December 20,1074)
Carluccio, Luigi, Panorama Magazine,(June 14,1973)
Haydon, Harold, Chicago Sun Times,(June 8, 1972)
Mellow, James, The New York Times,(May 26, 1973)

President: Tibor de Nagy
Director: Stewart Waltzer