Saqqakhaneh
サッカーハーネ派 / late 1950s–1960s / Style / Modern and Contemporary Art Movements
In late-1950s and 1960s Iran, Saqqakhaneh artists reworked street shrines, votive objects, talismanic seals, locks, beads, numbers and letters into modern repetition, accumulation and abstraction in painting and sculpture.
Repeated talismanic seals, numbers and letters filling the field / Accumulations of locks, keys, beads, ribbons and votive objects / Tightly gridded or axially compressed talismanic composition / Layered earth, metal, turquoise and red surfaces
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Addressing tensions between modernization, popular belief and local material culture through assembled objects and signs · Turning numbers, writing and offerings into contemporary repetition rather than antiquarian display
- Type
- Verify the meaning and provenance of Persian words and numbers rather than inventing occult-looking marks.
- Composition
- Compress small seals, keys, beads and writing into a grid or central axis, leaving either calm space or one large color field around it.
- Material
- Preserve the different wear of brass, iron, pigment and paper, and document the origin and use of devotional objects.
- Caution
- Hurufiyya opens writing across several modernisms; Saqqakhaneh is specifically rooted in Iranian popular devotion, offerings and street material culture. Do not merge both into Middle Eastern letter art.
- Further study
- The term Saqqakhana and 1960s Iranian modernism / Votive objects, talismanic seals and popular shrines / Parviz Tanavoli and Hossein Zenderoudi
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- Iranian Poster (イランのポスター)Shared effects: Calm / Rebellion / Luxury.Compare Saqqakhaneh and Iranian Poster
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