Sassan Behnam-Bakhtiar has the artistic ability to create dialogue that goes far beyond the strokes of his canvases. A fourth generation creative, the French-Iranian artist has earned the reputation as the ‘artist who paints energy’, he attributes meditation to both saving his life and for forging a new, unique method of painting that peels back more than just the layers of paint; it strips us, the viewer, back to the core of our humanity, inviting us to discover who we were, who we can truly become.
Born in Paris in 1984, a sudden move to Iran when Behnam-Bakhtiar was seven years old would shape his world – on one hand the…
