After Representation 14 by Sama Tari
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Medium: Acrylic on Paper
Dimensions: 29 x 42 cm
Year: 2026
Price: $500.00 USD
Status: available
This collection is the result of my exploration and reflection on the independent potential of the language of painting a place where painting is released from the task of representing the external world and enters an autonomous realm. In these artworks, non-representational abstraction is not the elimination of reality but the opening of new horizon for emotion and thought. For me, painting is a field of freedom; freedom from imagery, from fixed narratives, and from everything that confines the language of painting to representation. This freedom makes possible the emergence of structure that can only exist within painting itself independent of any external reference. Each artwork evolves through the act of painting, and meaning emerges through the encounter between the artwork and the viewer. "After Representation" is an invitation to experience painting directly; a space in which color, line, texture, rhythm, and movement are used not to describe objects but to create a world beyond.
Why collect this work?
Pale strokes repeatedly cut across a dark, branching field, holding the painting between spatial suggestion and the physical fact of marks on paper.
- Tari states that the 2026 series seeks to release painting from representing the external world. Here, near-recognisable forms arise but remain unresolved, lending visible support to that aim without proving it.
- In the photograph, linked black passages run through clusters of white and grey marks. Abrupt cropping at the right edge and uneven intervals between strokes prevent the composition from settling around a single centre.
- Catalogued as acrylic on paper, at 29 × 42 cm, the work uses the medium’s capacity for opaque contrast and broken coverage. Narrow streaks and broad sweeps produce competing directions across the compact sheet.
- Encountering this work within the series sharpens a specific question: how little visual information is needed before abstraction begins to resemble landscape, anatomy, or shadow, and how quickly another mark can cancel that reading.
About the Artist
Sama Tari
Sama Tari is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: painting. Based in Tehran, IR.
Nationality: Iranian
"After Representation" Collection 2026 This collection is the result of my exploration and reflection on the independent potential of the language...
