Afshin Pirhashemi, Untitled, 2018. Oil on Canvas, 150 X 200 cm.
Source: Courtesy of Ayyam Gallery
Afshin Pirhashemi, Untitled, 2018. Oil on Canvas, 150 X 200 cm.
Source: Courtesy of Ayyam Gallery
Afshin Pirhashemi, Untitled, Oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cm each (triptych)
Source: Courtesy of Ayyam Gallery
Afshin Pirhashemi, Untitled, 2018. Oil on canvas, 150 x 200 cm
Source: Courtesy of Ayyam Gallery
Other American iconographies such as the flag and The White House remain as backdrops in this show – so does Coco Cola, except in one work, where it is foregrounded. Inside, a woman covers her eyes and there are painted tears that hint at ruptures in the painting. If the bottle reminds Pirhashemi of better times in Tehran, he also alludes to its sense of mystery, compulsion, duality, signs of global hegemony and the East- West divide.
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Can You Keep a Secret? is a solo exhibition featuring a new body of work by Afshin Pirhashemi presented by Ayyam gallery.
Pirhashemi is a process-driven artist who works in series of paintings, depicting extremes and creating narrative environments of oppositions, where struggle and strength are made manifest. But he is also showcasing a certain abstract Romanticism, such as in his two crimson landscape paintings of cascading movement, female apparitions, disguise and reflection. As he continues to reinvent himself, his tableaux are dramatic vignettes that unravel in a palimpsest of past and present where more is revealed, and less is known.
Here’s a guided tour through the exhibition, more details in the gallery above.
Info is extracted from the press release.
