Sadi Poem by Bahman Zahedi
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Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 160 x 120 cm
Year: 2008
Price: $30000.00 USD
Status: available
Drawing from Saadi’s universal verse—“Human beings are limbs of one body”—this piece explores the visual potential of interconnectedness through contemporary calligraphic abstraction. The layered strokes, rendered in warm and cool tones, create a dynamic interplay between individuality and unity. The geometric understructure provides a subtle architectural grounding, while the fluid calligraphic gestures evoke the emotional and ethical implications of collective humanity. By dissolving text into movement, the artwork transforms a classical moral teaching into a modern visual meditation on empathy, shared identity, and the interdependence of all people.
Why collect this work?
A dense field of fragmented calligraphic forms presses against a rigid gridded surround, turning Saadi’s verse about shared humanity into a tension between collective structure and individual motion.
- Zahedi describes his practice as moving written forms beyond legibility. Here, that aim clarifies why letters appear less as a readable quotation than as interlocking strokes, loops and pointed fragments.
- The photograph shows an energetic central mass crossing and obscuring a rectilinear framework. Warm reds, oranges and creams appear threaded with turquoise and green, while several enlarged forms break outward, preventing the composition from settling into a sealed emblem.
- Catalogued as oil on canvas, the work uses overlapping, sharply bounded shapes to build visual density. Oil makes sustained layering and tonal variation possible, though the photograph cannot establish surface texture or the artist’s exact process.
- Made in 2008 and titled Sadi Poem in the catalogue, the painting is significant as a visual translation rather than an illustration: ethical unity is presented as compression, friction and mutual dependence within a common frame.
About the Artist
Bahman Zahedi
Bahman Zahedi is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: other. Based in Dubai, AE.
Nationality: Iranian
My work emerges at the intersection of calligraphy, movement, and energy.
