Sun of the east by Afsaneh Moslehi
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Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 120 x 160 cm
Year: 2026
Price: $1900.00 USD
Status: available
Sun of the East explores light as both a natural and cultural presence. The composition is centered on an Islamic geometric star, reimagined as the sun—a symbol that connects the rhythms of nature with the visual language of the Middle East. The restrained composition allows light, form, and material to take the foreground. Copper leaf responds to changing illumination, subtly transforming the work as the viewer moves, while the geometric structure evokes harmony, continuity, and the enduring relationship between nature and cultural tradition.
Why collect this work?
A cropped radial form rises into a broad blue field beneath narrow bands of orange and metallic-looking color, turning a familiar horizon into a meeting point between landscape and constructed geometry.
- Moslehi’s profile describes a practice combining calligraphy, geometry, and reflection. Here, script-like black marks interrupt the pale segmented form, making language function visually rather than as readily legible text.
- The photograph shows the radial motif cut off by the lower edge, while the upper field remains largely open. This imbalance makes the form seem emergent and gives the horizontal bands unusual visual authority.
- The documented acrylic medium permits flat expanses, opaque relief-like passages, and sharply bounded sections. The artist’s description separately identifies copper leaf, although that material is not included in the catalogue medium.
- The work is useful for examining how Islamic geometric structure can be displaced from architectural repetition and recast as a singular, partly concealed body within an abstracted landscape.
About the Artist
Afsaneh Moslehi
Afsaneh Moslehi is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: painting. Based in Muscat, OM.
Nationality: Iranian
My work explores the relationship between nature, geometry, and human expression.
