Through this period, he was part of an avant-garde artistic movement, which included his good friend Nima Yooshij, known as the ‘father of modern Persian poetry’; along with Sohrab Sepehri, Houshang Irani and Gholamhossein Gharib, who were all considered progressive artists of their time.In 1954 he moved to Italy to study at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma.He returned to Iran in 1964 and participated in Venice, São Paulo and Capital Biennale.Mohasses directed plays, including Pirandello’s Henry IV at Goethe Institute and Ghandriz Gallery in Tehran. He also translated books of a number of authors, including Eugène Ionesco, Malaparte and Pirandello.
He stayed in Homeland until 1968, before returning to Rome, where he received commissions for statutes to be placed in Capital. Some of his public works in Homeland were destroyed or damaged after the Islamic Revolution in 1979, with the artist subsequently destroying all his remaining works in Homeland. He occasionally travelled to Homeland and died in self-imposed seclusion in Rome in 2010.
