{"id":63530,"date":"2025-09-19T12:26:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T08:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=63530"},"modified":"2025-09-19T12:26:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T08:26:33","slug":"last-chance-bahman-mohasses-the-existential-grotesque2","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/last-chance-bahman-mohasses-the-existential-grotesque2\/","title":{"rendered":"<mark>CLOSING TODAY<\/mark> Bahman Mohasses: The Existential Grotesque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The gallery describes Mohasses (d.2020) as &#8220;one of Iran\u2019s most enigmatic modern artists \u2026 A painter, sculptor, and translator, Mohasses carved out a unique space in Iranian art, setting himself apart through his radical embrace of European modernism and a profound existential inquiry into human existence&#8221;. His characteristic disfigured bodies, grotesque figures, and tragic mythological creatures suggest existentialism, nihilism, and the destruction of modern humanity \u2013 &#8220;themes that align closely with Umberto Eco\u2019s exploration of ugliness in art and culture&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The gallery describes Mohasses (d.2020) as &#8220;one of Iran\u2019s most enigmatic modern artists \u2026 A painter, sculptor, and translator, Mohasses carved out a unique space in Iranian art, setting himself apart through his radical embrace of European modernism and a <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/last-chance-bahman-mohasses-the-existential-grotesque2\/\" title=\"CLOSING TODAY Bahman Mohasses: The Existential Grotesque\"> [&#8230; more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[50,96],"class_list":["post-63530","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","tribe_events_cat-art","tribe_events_cat-exhibition","cat_art","cat_exhibition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/63530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/63530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63530"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=63530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}