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Ahmad Siyar Qasimi: Blue Screen, 2017. Oil on canvas, 145 x 290 cm.
Ahmad Siyar Qasimi is a painter and a drawer. With oil on canvas and oil stick on paper, he evokes enigmatic scenes and motifs in which ambiguities and unresolved stories find their place. Ahmad Siyar Qasimi works with a special technique in his works. The strokes are meticulous and neat, and the oil paint appears dry, creating a distinctive, tactile quality and bringing associations to the Impressionist French painters of the 19th century. The artist creates with an awareness of historical predecessors, and where the techniques may seem related to the expressions of earlier times, his world of motifs emerges as an alluring, timeless contrast. Ahmad Siyar Qasimi takes his motifs from the internet’s digital archives, press photos and films, and precisely the cinematic qualities shine through as interrupted scenes that are freed from their contexts and frozen as a snapshot, where a before and after is missing. The work Blue Screen contains the inexplicables of the snapshot, where we as viewers are met by dark silhouettes behind a screen and a barbed wire fence. As with the rest of Ahmad Siyar Qasimi’s practice, there is a strong storytelling force at play that remains unresolved, mixing the contemporary with the dreamy, the anonymous with the interaction, the human traveling through a landscape.
Ahmad Siyar Qasimi (1986 DK) was born in Kabul and graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
in 2014. He has represented Denmark at the JCE Biennale and exhibited his works at the ARKEN Museum for Contemporary Art, DK; Trapholt Museum for Art and Design, DK; Willumsen’s Museum, DK; Kunsthal Charlottenborg, DK; The Nordic Embassy, DK and Galleri Tom Christoffersen, DK. He is represented in the collection at the Trapholt Museum for Art and Design, DK; Randers Art Museum, DK; New Carlsberg Foundation, DK and Statens Kunstfond, DK. Qasimi has received the Remmen Foundation’s Art reward, and in 2024 he was assigned The New Carlsberg Foundation’s Artist Grant. He is represented by Galleri Tom Christoffersen, DK.
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