Ahmad Siyar Qasimi (DK)

Ahmas Siyar Qasimi

Ahmad Siyar Qasimi's paintings and drawings quiver in their simultaneously recognizable and estranged motifs. With a meticulous and precise technique, Ahmad Siyar Qasimi places brushstrokes of oil paint on the canvas. By painting with one color at a time and often layering complementary colors on each other, the artist creates a vibrating and physical texture in the picture surface. He achieves the same effect in his drawings, where the black oil stick creates painterly qualities on the white paper.

With a clear foundation in the motifs and allegories of art history, Ahmad Siyar Qasimi paints in the interaction between the undeniably beautiful and the indefinably uncomfortable. Often, the motivic starting points are found photographs from the mass media news streams. Magnificent nature motifs are occupied by people wandering through the landscape, and flashlights illuminate dark forests. With Ahmad Siyar Qasimi, the hidden drama runs as if in an undercurrent, and the motifs never reveal their actual narratives. Instead, they are nourished by their ambiguous expression, allowing the indeterminate images to live in the here and now, removed from their original contexts and transformed into the sensuous and present painting.