book series – water paintings Book objects, 14 pieces, each: 27 x 20 x 4 cm
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Fata Morgana
Fata Morgana Painting installationBook installation, 12 parts 2019-2020Oil on book covers, each 28 x 22 x 4 cm The 12-part painting installation presents the river landscape of the Rhine in fog. The pictures, which make up a 12-part art history volume, are depicted on book […]
water painting canvas
water painting canvas Following on from the Water Books, Rafi created an eleven part series of canvases on the same subject. The 14 small paintings now became studies for the following eleven paintings.
water waintings on canvas blue
water paintings on canvas blue The breaking waves, the pounding of water and its complex flowing movement bestow a loud roar upon the quiet paintings.
neon
Oil on canvas with neon light The two large formats stand out in the series. Ahmad Rafi had already broached the subject of the ships graveyard in the “miniature paintings”. Here he is on land, but water still plays a pivotal role.
In the Flow of Things
Video Installation “In the Flow of Things” For Heraklit flowing water was also emblematic of the transitoriness of everything earthly. “Panta rhei” – everything flows, nothing stays the same.
canvas series
canvas series / Of truth and deception 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. The backgrounds in his […]
triptych I
canvas series / Of truth and deception Paintings & Installation1999-2004 triptych II shadows behind The first works in the Canvas Series originates from the year 1999. The canvas depicted in the works has numbers on it. They were on the real canvas. Feet stick out from […]
triptych II
canvas series / triptych II triptych I shadows behind The second triptych was made directly after completing the first, but the position of the canvas changes. Instead of the canvas hanging from a frame it is now lying free within the space.
shadows behind
shadows behind triptych I triptysch II Ahmad Rafi works on two different levels. One is on the painted canvas itself and the other is the objects projected onto the material from behind.