09/12/2025
Untitled 03, 2020
Acrylic on paper
H 70 x W 50 cm
Reza Shafahi (b.1940, Iran) a self-taught artist who amongst his previous incarnations was a trained wrestler, first started painting in 2012 at the ripe age of 72, as part of the long-term art project, Daddy S***m, by his son Mamali Shafahi.
The initial idea was for father and son to work on identical subjects and show them side-by-side in the Daddy S***m exhibition in Paris.
Since then, Reza Shafahi has continued drawing from his own imagination and with his own inspiration.
His work has been exhibited by Magic of Persia (Dubai), Marlborough Chelsea Gallery, New York, SpazioA Gallery in Pistoia (curated by Martha Kirszenbaum) and in a one-man show atthe Erratum Galerie, Berlin.
