With generous and deliberate brushstrokes, Mojé Assefjah's gestures create curved, flowing forms that occupy the pictorial space like draped robes, hinting at their borrowing from historical painting traditions. Broad bands of colour are written into the canvas, embodying free gestures.
Assefjah's choice to employ the egg tempera technique aligns harmoniously with her deep exploration of art history. The expressive colours evoke a tactile quality, inviting the viewer to engage with the material.
The artist constructs three-dimensional paintings through layering, alternating between transparency and opacity, proximity and distance, movement and stillness, light and dark, and texture. Assefjah creates imaginative pictorial worlds between figure, landscape, and stage. One can associate them with floral or geometric forms reminiscent of patterns found in historical carpets or the draperies of the Baroque era. Her technical and theoretical interest in European and Italian Renaissance painting is enriched by the mysticism of ancient Persian pictorial and written traditions.
"Each painting is to me a vision, a scene, a view, they are an invitation for the eye to look through a window opened to a nostalgic space."
Since 1999, Assefjah's work has been regularly featured in solo and group exhibitions in Europe, Asia,USA and the Middle and Near East. Her works can be found in numerous private collections in Germany, Switzerland, the USA, Dubai, Lebanon, Spain and Korea, and in various public collections, including in: the Pinakothek der Moderne; the städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich; the Gabriele Münter and Johannes Eichner Foundation, Munich; the Guangdong Art Museum, China; the Colección olorVISUAL, Spain; the Graphische Sammlung, Munich; the BIZ, Switzerland.
In spring 2022, the Lenbachhaus/Städtische Galerie Lenbachhaus municipal gallery exhibited Assefjah's works - from the Museum and the KiCo Foundation collection - in the group exhibition Dip In The Past. Following the exhibition, the KiCo Foundation acquired six additional works for the museum collection.
Press release courtesy Galerie Tanit.
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