Gholamreza Takhti (Persian: غلامرضا تختی)

Jahan Pahlavan , 2014
Mixed Media Sculpture, 30 x 15 x 9 cm.

A world without the world's champion is not a place to live!
Small ceramic sculpture, it is an homage an a butcher in Kermanshah. When the news of Gholamreza Takhti (Persian: غلامرضا تختی)'s death spread, the Iranian nation went into mourning. At least seven people killed themselves. The butcher, killed him self written with his blood on the shopwindow: "A world without the world's champion is not a place to live."


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Shahram Entekhabi is an German-Iranian- artist, curator & architect, currently living & working across Tehran, Iran - Berlin, Germany and Europe.