Ahmad Rafi is a representational  painter. Although he works diligently on the exact rendition of an object, he also succeeds in setting new accents within the discipline of realistic painting. His painting is obviously based on a critical need for self-reflection. Painting for him is an expression about the art of painting itself.

Water series

Water paintings on Canvas blue
Oil on canvas, 2017/2018, 77 x 114 cm

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Canvas series

Ahmad Rafi refers to the stagings as performative acts. A painter hides behind his canvas. Artist and canvas are inseparably connected. The artist himself is not visible, revealing himself only through his painted canvas.

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De composition

Films

Of war and idyll

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