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Ahmad Siyar Qasimi: Untitled, 2015. Oil on canvas, 85 x 110 cm. .
Ahmad Siyar Qasimi’s artistic practice has oil painting as its center point. Qasimi has developed a painting technique that not only mimes old, classical oil painting with origins in the masters of impressionism such as Bonnard and Monet but also points towards new directions of what painting can manage. By using a relatively classic technique when picturing current themes and motives, Qasimi continuously draws connecting lines between our present and its historic origins. Qasimi’s paintings all have something ambiguous and dreamy about them. The motives are torn away from their contexts and an actual narrative is not revealed. Instead, we are as viewers encouraged for ourselves to imagine a meaningful before and after. .
Ahmad Siyar Qasimi (1986, DK/AFG) is born in Kabul and graduated from The Royal Danish Academy of Art in 2014. Han has exhibited at the JCE Biennale d’art contemporain at seven European exhibition venues, Charlottenborg, DK; The Nordic Embassy, DK; and Galleri Tom Christoffersen, DK. His work is part of the collection at Trapholt Museum of Art and Design, DK, and The Danish Arts Foundation, DK. Qasimi has received the Remmen Foundation Art Award 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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