- Title
- Rostam in the Dead of Winter
- Date Made
- 2009
- Medium
- Inkjet print and mixed media on handmade paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 22 1/2 × 30 in. (57.15 × 76.2 cm)
- Accession Number
- M.2015.189
- Collecting Area
- Art of the Middle East: Contemporary
- Curatorial Notes
Fereydoun Ave has created several series featuring the epic hero Rustam represented by photographs of Abbas Jadidi, an Iranian wrestler who won the 1996 Olympic silver medal. While Rustam is portrayed as triumphant in other works, here, in a hostile environment populated by hyenas and vultures, he is bereft. The ominous splashes of red paint, the wild animals, and Rustam’s isolation and visible exhaustion suggest an unfavorable end for the diminished hero.
- Selected Bibliography
- Komaroff, Linda. In the Fields of Empty Days: The Intersection of Past and Present in Iranian Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2018.
