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The Hole is please to present a pop-up exhibition during Art Basel Paris by Nastaran Shahbazi. In the heart of the Marais, the artist recreates the feel of her studio with sketches, palettes, brushes and six new paintings.

With notes of Manet, Degas, Renoir, Matisse or Toulouse-Lautrec, Shahbazi conjures a half-remembered tune of 19th Century styles with modern and personal motives. The Paris-based painter captures the poetic nuances of revelry, and from optimism comes freedom. Shahbazi was unable to travel to New York for her New York debut, Wild Roses, earlier this year so instead we will …