Abbas Akbari leaning over a field of black lustre cones, his hand resting on one of them

Abbas Akbari

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The solitude, peace, and silence of the House with the soft and silent movement of small red fish in the big blue pool in the dark of the night all ignite the imagination and energize body and soul to work and pour out the inspiration in a piece.

The Fish in Attarha’s House, 2004

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Abbas Akbari modelling in clay in his studio in Kashan

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Abbas Akbari

Abbas Akbari works in clay. Since the late 1990s he has made the revival of Persian lustreware his subject as much as his medium — reading the twelfth- and fourteenth-century treatises that first recorded its glazes, and returning the technique to the city…

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