Ardeshir Mohasses’ Accolades
Posted by By ifvc at 23 March, at 12 : 38 PM Print
“Iran has a serious cartoonist, whose talent and originality are beyond question.”
— Stanley Mason, Graphis
“The drama which Ardeshir has in his mind is also the conflict between individual consciousness in the modernized world and long-established customs. We do not find any differences between him and ourselves. His grotesque caricatures are the very fruits of his resistance against authority, bureaucratism, class system and conventionalism, all of which pervert our humanity and deprive us of freedom.”
— Akiko Hiuga, Idea
“…We are misled too often into prejudices against other countries and other nations on account of lacking necessary information. I prefer to believe in the heart of an artist rather than the one-sided information supplied by the international mass media.”
— Katzumie Massura, Graphic Design
“Ardeshir Mohasses displays in his style and spirit a vigorous and compelling personality…The gratuitous image of simple, unexpected virtue, absurd and disconcerting; fantasies of horror and fascination with death; eroticism and cruelty; the whole sado-masochist arsenal, have now become linked in a social satire whose violence is felt as in a malaise.
It is a world placed in the dock; a world where injustice reigns; a world of predators and victims, of masters and serfs, where subjection is symbolized by intertwined spirals, a world of alienation, where papers and employees are speared by the same paper holder, where love is but derision, and hanging but a masquerade; a world torn apart, dismembered, where the frontiers between man and beast have been abolished, and in which man is soldered to the bars of his prison and the links of his chains.”
— Jeune Afrique
“Ardeshir Mohasses comes as quite a surprise. His targets are different. A recurring theme in his drawings is that of domination and subjection. Although his depictions of decapitated creatures, beast-like men, men-like beasts are weird, they are not without humor.”
— Jean Coyne, Communication Arts
