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.
At a glance
Visual cues
- 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
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
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Dictionary entry
- 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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- Hurufiyya (フルーフィーヤ)Same Modern and Contemporary Art Movements lineage.Compare Saqqakhaneh and Hurufiyya
- Iranian Poster (イランのポスター)Shared effects: Calm / Rebellion / Luxury.Compare Saqqakhaneh and Iranian Poster
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