Monir shahroudy farmanfarmaian biography of michael jordan

As an important reverse-glass painting by Monir Farmanfarmaian is offered in London, Serpentine Galleries Director Hans Ulrich Obrist, specialist Dina Nasser-Khadivi and gallerist Sunny Rahbar discuss the artist’s pioneering practice 

Monir Farmanfarmaian in her studio in Tehran, 1975.

Photo: courtesy of The Third Line, Dubai

For Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries in London, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian (1924-2019) was one of the most important artists of her generation.

‘She was one of the first artists to leave the “centre” of the art world and maintain a global practice,’ wrote Obrist in the monograph MonirShahroudy Farmanfarmaian: Cosmic Geometry (2011).

‘In this respect, she has been a role model for the artist of the 21st century.’

Born to a liberal family in Qazvin, Iran, in 1924, Farmanfarmaian woul