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Mehdi GhadyanlooPerrotin Seoul
Mehdi Ghadyanloo: Paradise Opens Tomorrow
메디 가디안루: Paradise Opens Tomorrow
About the exhibition
Playground equipment and toys sit in closed rooms shaped like boxes, with light falling from round holes overhead, Art Korea TV reports, painted in trompe-l'œil, a style meant to fool the eye. The Korea JoongAng Daily notes that children never appear. Hankyung counts about 20 paintings and colored pencil drawings, including The Playground of Tomorrow (2025), oil on canvas at 200 by 300 cm. The JoongAng Daily also describes a pink dog sculpture whose hollow legs double as slides.
This is the artist's first solo show in Korea. Art Korea TV quotes Perrotin on playground structures as monuments to psychological states. The JoongAng Daily reports Waiting for Godot as the inspiration for the title, and that the works were finished in Iran during the war in the Middle East, then shipped overland to Istanbul.
About the artist
Mehdi Ghadyanloo (b. 1981, Karaj, Iran) is primarily based in Germany, according to HENI. Art Korea TV reports that Ghadyanloo studied painting at the University of Tehran and took a master's in animation at Tarbiat Modares University, and that from 2004 the artist painted more than 100 large murals in Tehran. The Korea JoongAng Daily reports a 2016 public commission in Boston, Spaces of Hope. HENI notes a 2024 solo show at the Long Museum in Shanghai, and Art Korea TV reports that Perrotin began representing the artist in Asia in 2026.
Sources: Perrotin: Mehdi Ghadyanloo · Perrotin: Paradise Opens Tomorrow
