Mehdi Ghadyanloo Joins Perrotin

Mehdi Ghadyanloo, who is primarily based in Germany, is known for his surreal, tromp l'oeil paintings, often featuring sprial slides and staircases, and before that the many murals he painted across the Iranian capital.

In 2016, he created a mural at the Rose Kennedy Greenway in Boston featuring a giant red balloon about to escape into a blue sky from its drab surroundings.

After training as an animation artist and finding he had little talent for storytelling, as he once joked, the artist spent the next decade making public art in the Iranian capital.

"Tehran has like 10,000 mural-ready walls. It was a fantasy in some ways; even if we knew that this golden age wouldn’t last forever, it was a dream for a while," he told Gagosian magazine.

Ghadyanloo has also show at Almine Rech in Paris and New York in the past and in 2024 had a solo show at the Long Museum in Shanghai.