Untitled

细节

Tasha Amini (B. 1970)
Untitled
oil on canvas mounted on board
11 7/8 x 9 7/8in. (30.2 x 25.2cm.)
Executed in 2008

来源

Kate MacGarry, London.
Acquired from the above in 2008.

展览

London, Saatchi Gallery, Newspeak, British Art Now, 2010-2011 (illustrated in colour, p.1). This exhibition later travelled to St. Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.

注意事项

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拍品专文

‘I like the idea of figuring out how little you can put on a painting to make a painting,’ says Tasha Amini. ‘I love painting hair … there’s an intensity in the repetitive action and I can lose myself in doing it.’ Zoomed to close proximity, the hair in Untitled transforms to a surface suggestive of landscape or sea, undulant strokes of grey and black verging on abstraction. A dual exercise in intimacy and expansiveness, the work has a compelling psychological resonance. As in many of Amini’s paintings, we are presented not with a mere objective physical depiction, but an image heightened with emotional inflection through the most subtle and economical of means: this is not just an illustration of hair, but a meditation on how it feels to be close to someone.