After Representation 3 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?
Black openings interrupt a layered pale field, while a slanting bar gives the composition a temporary structure that never resolves into a depicted object.
- Tari states that the 2026 series seeks a language of painting independent of external reference. This work supports that aim without eliminating resemblance, since its angled fragments can still prompt uncertain architectural or landscape associations.
- In the photograph, broad pale marks crowd around exposed black shapes, with vertical strokes tightening both edges. The central diagonal steadies the field, but broken contours keep its identity unresolved.
- The documented acrylic on paper enables opaque overlaps and abrupt light-dark divisions within the compact 29 × 42 cm sheet. The photograph does not establish exact colour or physical texture.
- This painting provides a focused case for examining where abstraction ends and recognition begins, especially when compositional structure resembles objects without fully describing them.
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...
