Mostafa Sarabi

Episode 6Mostafa Sarabi
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Sunlight & Solitude

Sunlight & Solitude brings together works that hold summer in luminous suspension — figures drifting through radiant seas, portraits alive with heat and immediacy, and abstractions that blur like haze. Each piece becomes a meditation on light as memory, presence, and reflection.

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Mostafa Sarabi

Born in 1983 in Iran, Mostafa Sarabi’s paintings merge the supernatural with the natural, fusing Persian myths, personal memories, and symbolic animals into lush, patterned landscapes. His forests, suns, moons, and dreamlike figures evoke spaces that feel both intimate and mythical, colliding reality with fantasy. Summer appears as a season of reverie, warmth, and sanctuary, with forests and symbolic creatures offering visions of protection and mystery.

 

The saturated palette channels both heat and spirit, while human, animal, and celestial presences infuse his art with layered meanings. Through shifting perspectives, blocked faces, and maze-like forms, Sarabi suggests that memory and myth blur into one another, presenting summer as a timeless refuge where the human and the otherworldly coexist.

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82 x 114cm
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160 x 130 x 2.5cm
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114 x 82cm
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82 x 114cm
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82 x 114cm
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149 x 119.5 x 2.5cm
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125 x 100cm
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200 x 155cm
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145 x 100cm
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130 x 95cm
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135 x 95cm
Tree and Sunset
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114 x 82cm
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129 x 167 x 2.5cm
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200 x 145cm
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Mostafa Sarabi
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Mostafa Sarabi
B.1983, Iranian

Through the play with perspective, symbolic motifs and maze-like printmaking, Mostafa Sarabi’s paintings are supernatural while colliding with natural imagery. Portraits of his family, recurring dreams of footballers, Persian myths, suns, moons and forests inhabit the whimsical landscape of the Iranian artist’s works. Existing at the intersection of reality and fantasy, memory and representation, the artist’s human subjects turn their backs at the viewing or have trees and branches in the way of their faces. Other works dwell on the mysterious nature of the animals, with one painting depicting the artist’s father as a lion, or another showing a bright, white horse standing amidst blood-red trees. Sarabi’s forests are landscapes are luring and mythical, originating straight from the artist’s dreams. ...

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114 x 82cm
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188.5 x 119.5 x 2.5cm
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Mostafa SarabiUntitled, 2019
114 x 82cm
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114 x 82cm
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Mostafa SarabiUntitled, 2020
130 x 95cm
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150 x 120cm
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57.4 x 41.2cm
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200 x 250cm
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200 x 150cm
Bloody Jungle
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Mostafa SarabiScars, 2023
24 x 30cm
Lemon Tree
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140 x 100cm
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140 x 120cm
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138 x 158.5cm
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140 x 160cm
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144 x 119cm