After Representation 18 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?
A pale lateral sweep interrupts competing red, green, and orange strokes, making obstruction rather than a central motif the painting’s organizing force.
- Tari states that the 2026 series releases painting from representing the external world. Here, directional marks establish a self-contained structure without resolving into identifiable objects, making that intention persuasive.
- In the photograph, green strokes rise from the lower edge while red and orange passages push across them. These crossing directions hold the compact field between upward movement and lateral resistance.
- Catalogued as acrylic on paper, measuring 29 by 42 cm, the work combines broad colour passages with abrupt linear accents. Layered overlaps make earlier marks remain active beneath later ones, although physical texture cannot be confirmed from the photograph.
- The work gives a focused account of how abstraction can create spatial pressure without conventional depth. Its dense crossings and narrow openings make the distinction between depicted space and painted structure concrete.
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...
