Koh-e-Asmayee (Television Hill) by Naemat Wardak
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Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 40 x 50 cm
Year: 2025
Price: $6930.00 USD
Status: available
This painting comes from my childhood beneath Koh-e-Asmayee in Kabul. I grew up seeing the mountain from streets, rooftops, and windows, while life around it shifted between ordinary childhood and the reality of war. I paint it from memory rather than observation, breaking the mountain and city into geometric planes, layered colors, fragmented architecture, and changing skies. These fragments represent how I remember Kabul not as one fixed image, but as many moments existing at once. For me, Koh-e-Asmayee is more than a landmark. It is a personal anchor a place that remained when everything around it could change. This original oil painting preserves a piece of that childhood memory and my connection to Kabul.
Why collect this work?
A compartmentalized sky denies the city a single atmosphere, recasting a named Kabul landmark as a place remembered through overlapping moments.
- Wardak states that he paints Koh-e-Asmayee from childhood memory rather than direct observation. This intention helps explain the reordered architecture, but the painting’s tension arises from how clearly its parts remain divided.
- In the supplied photograph, a yellow building rises behind a sweeping grey-black ridge, while colored sky panels contain separate circular bodies. These abrupt shifts of scale and viewpoint make the scene legible but spatially unresolved.
- Catalogue metadata identifies oil on canvas. Here, oil supports both sharply bounded color fields and softer tonal transitions on the ridge and spheres, distinguishing schematic buildings from more modeled natural forms.
- Dated 2025 and measuring 40 by 50 cm, the painting provides a focused comparison between civic geography and personal recollection. Its title anchors that inquiry to Koh-e-Asmayee rather than an anonymous imagined city.
About the Artist
Naemat Wardak
Naemat Wardak is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: painting. Based in Kabul, AF.
Nationality: Afghan
I paint because there are things I remember that I cannot fully put into words.
