Mojé Assefjah

[...] The abstract pictures of the Iranian artist Mojè Assefjah impress by the lightness of the colors and the weightlessness of the forms; the duct of the brush is seemingly playful and fleeting. The non-illustratable planes and lines shift in the eye of the beholder to objects, which - easily and lucid - do mediate an idea of spatiality. The canvas becomes an imaginary and imagined occurrence of color.
The pictured impression, from which Assefjah creates her paintings, is often quite palpable. Since a very early intensive examination of paintings from the renaissance so called "frozen moments", events that arise from relating forms and shapes to a time and space, form an important starting point of her work.
 
So accordingly Assefjah uses photographs of other people in her project "Der andere Blick" (2003/2006), that they collected for her with a camera - for example in Iceland, or most of all in the home country of the artist, Iran.  [...]

Extrait du communiqué de Presse "Jam-avary" (06/09/2006 - 10/11/2006) - OSRAM (Munich, Allemagne)