Ali Golestaneh, an Iranian painter who died on Wednesday, October 6, due to complications from Corona, was hospitalized in the intensive care unit of Toos Hospital in Tehran for 10 days.
Hamid Shahrokh, translator, photographer and close friend of Ali Golestaneh, who was with him in the last days of his life, told about the place of his death: Mr. Ali Golestaneh was in Tehran when he died and had not left Iran for many years.
According to him, Ali Golestaneh’s death was reported to the artist’s wife by telephone at 7:00 AM on Wednesday (October 6). The artist, who was hospitalized at the urging of his wife, died just as preparations were being made for his return home from the hospital.
Golestaneh was born in 1940 in Tehran and had a bachelor’s degree in painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts. He was a classmate of Aidin Aghdashloo and Abbas Kiarostami at Jam Gholhak High School.
Aidin Aghdashloo wrote about this: Ali Golestaneh was one of the two friends of my youth and one of the greatest contemporary painters of Iran, if not the greatest. He died this morning from Corona. His place in Iranian culture and in my heart will remain empty forever.
Ali Golestaneh (Mohammad Golestani) studied painting with Ali Asghar Petgar. He received a bachelor’s degree in painting in 1972 from the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Tehran. Golestaneh lived in England from 1969 to 1977 and studied at the London Printing School affiliated with the University of London.
Golestaneh later worked as a designer and painter for the Royal Car Club of England. He held his first exhibition of his pencil works at the Shahr Gallery in Tehran in 1976. He went to Spain in 1979. He held two exhibitions in Madrid in 1984 and 1986 and another exhibition in Santa Eulalia, Ibiza in 1981.
Golestaneh returned to Iran in 1987 and since then has remained in the country and held several solo exhibitions in the galleries of Golestan, Etemad, Hoor, Emkan and Maryam Fassihi Harandi. His last exhibition was held in August last year at Gallery 009821.
Portraits and human figures have always been one of Ali Golestaneh’s main concerns. He portrays the faces of his friends and people around him, such as Forough Farrokhzad (poet), Lili Golestan (gallery owner), Parviz Maleki (gallery owner), Zoya Pirzad (writer), Mostafa Dashti (painter), Simin Behbahani (poet), Zhilla Ipackchi (Editor), Mohammad Moghadam (linguist), Nader Shah Afshar and others, recounted another aspect of his work
