Tarlar Aghbashian
Solace of The Afterimage
13 December 2023 - 24 Mrach 2024
Everything is a tree,
Everything is painted, everything everywhere.
My landscapes slowly transition. I catch myself painting figures. As I start from a structure, a shape that can stand or be. A monster? A transient vampire, that lives through the times, where bits of landscape get stuck to these character structures, in some cases the bits of landscape take over, and it -the landscape, becomes the subject; still, like its figure counterparts being as much a living breathing thing, as it indeed is! So far removed we are from the living landscape that we would otherwise miss. The painting looks at you and we want to peer back.
The set like framing of the works points to the space within the frame, to this transient space. As the painting pulls together, and I help it on its legs, and see it revealed. The bunching-of-stuff process, helps the painting have a flow and movement, whisked in time, mirroring the ephemerality of life, of all beings and non-beings alike, of eroding cultures and lands, of places I known and never knew.
Speedy drawing lines imbue freedom to the painting, it is an integral part of it. The harder cartoon-like outlines accent the forms, renders it ironical, witty, whilst stripping it down, and amplifying, it lends it a reality that is told in the way of painting.
Solace of The Afterimage
13 December 2023 - 24 Mrach 2024
Everything is a tree,
Everything is painted, everything everywhere.
My landscapes slowly transition. I catch myself painting figures. As I start from a structure, a shape that can stand or be. A monster? A transient vampire, that lives through the times, where bits of landscape get stuck to these character structures, in some cases the bits of landscape take over, and it -the landscape, becomes the subject; still, like its figure counterparts being as much a living breathing thing, as it indeed is! So far removed we are from the living landscape that we would otherwise miss. The painting looks at you and we want to peer back.
The set like framing of the works points to the space within the frame, to this transient space. As the painting pulls together, and I help it on its legs, and see it revealed. The bunching-of-stuff process, helps the painting have a flow and movement, whisked in time, mirroring the ephemerality of life, of all beings and non-beings alike, of eroding cultures and lands, of places I known and never knew.
Speedy drawing lines imbue freedom to the painting, it is an integral part of it. The harder cartoon-like outlines accent the forms, renders it ironical, witty, whilst stripping it down, and amplifying, it lends it a reality that is told in the way of painting.
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Talar AghbashianFisheye, 2023Oil on canvas102 x 76 x 3,5 cmCourtesy of Marfa’ ProjectsCopyright The Artist -
Talar AghbashianTangle, 2023Oil on canvas105 x 95 cmCourtesy of Marfa’ ProjectsCopyright The Artist
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Talar AghbashianRelic, 2023Oil on canvas106x80cmCourtesy of Marfa’ ProjectsCopyright The Artist
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Talar AghbashianRoman Cemetery, 2023Oil on canvas90x80x2.5 cmCourtesy of Marfa’ ProjectsCopyright The Artist
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Talar AghbashianPaper Doll, 2023Oil on canvas101x76cmCourtesy of Marfa’ ProjectsCopyright The Artist
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Talar AghbashianFloating Forest , 2023Oil on canvas95x95cmCourtesy of Marfa’ ProjectsCopyright The Artist
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Talar AghbashianSettle the Odds, 2023Oil on canvas105.5x 80.5x2.5 cmCourtesy of Marfa’ ProjectsCopyright The Artist
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Talar AghbashianUntitled, 2021Acrylic and oil on canvas36x28cmCourtesy of Marfa’ ProjectsCopyright The Artist
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Talar AghbashianBook 13- Untitled -, 2020Watercolour on paper25.5x17.5cmCourtesy of Marfa’ ProjectsCopyright The Artist
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Talar AghbashianJust After Seven, 2023Oil on canvas85x90x2.5 cmCourtesy of Marfa’ ProjectsCopyright The Artist
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Talar AghbashianTop Side Face Side (Diptych), 2021Oil on canvas60x135cm (side by side)Courtesy of Marfa’ ProjectsCopyright The Artist
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Talar AghbashianTroll, 2023Oil on canvas105x80x2.5 cmCourtesy of Marfa’ ProjectsCopyright The Artist
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Talar AghbashianMammoth at the Museum, 2023Oil on canvas100x95cmCourtesy of Marfa’ ProjectsCopyright The Artist
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Talar AghbashianSea Forest , 2023Oil on canvas100.5x80.5x2.5 cmCourtesy of Marfa’ ProjectsCopyright The Artist
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Talar AghbashianStumbling Away , 2023Oil on canvas105.5x90.5x2.5 cmCourtesy of Marfa’ ProjectsCopyright The Artist
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Talar AghbashianBlue and Green, 2023Oil on canvas105.5x95.5x2.5 cmCourtesy of Marfa’ ProjectsCopyright The Artist
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Talar AghbashianCollapsible/Dog, 2023Oil on canvas101.5x76x3.5 cmCourtesy of Marfa’ ProjectsCopyright The Artist
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Talar AghbashianUntitled, 2021Acrylic and oil on canvas40x30cmCourtesy of Marfa’ ProjectsCopyright The Artist
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Talar AghbashianSeepage, 2023Oil on canvas102 x 76 x 3.5 cmCourtesy of Marfa’ ProjectsCopyright The Artist
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Talar AghbashianConsider This, 2023Oil on canvas122x92cmCourtesy of Marfa’ ProjectsCopyright The Artist
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Talar AghbashianBlazing Forest , 2023Oil on canvas115x95x2.5 cmCourtesy of Marfa’ ProjectsCopyright The Artist
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Talar AghbashianWhat's Above is Below, 2023Oil on canvas122x92cmCourtesy of Marfa’ ProjectsCopyright The Artist
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Talar AghbashianWaterfall, 2023Oil on canvas121 x 91 x 3.5 cmCourtesy of Marfa’ ProjectsCopyright The Artist
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Talar AghbashianView of The Lake , 2023Oil on canvas102x76.5x3.5 cmCourtesy of Marfa’ ProjectsCopyright The Artist
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Talar AghbashianUntitled, 2021Acrylic on canvas36x28cmCourtesy of Marfa’ ProjectsCopyright The Artist
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Talar AghbashianBook 13- Curtain, 2020Watercolour on paper25.5x17.5cmCourtesy of Marfa’ ProjectsCopyright The Artist
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Talar AghbashianBook 13- Boots, 2020Watercolour on paper25.5x17.5cmCourtesy of Marfa’ ProjectsCopyright The Artist
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Talar AghbashianBook 13- Landscape After Rembrandt, 2020Watercolour on paper25.5x17.5cmCourtesy of Marfa’ ProjectsCopyright The Artist
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Talar AghbashianBook 13- Untitled ----, 2020Watercolour on paper25.5x17.5cmCourtesy of Marfa’ ProjectsCopyright The Artist
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Talar AghbashianBook 13- Landscape, 2020Watercolour on paper25.5x17.5cmCourtesy of Marfa’ ProjectsCopyright The Artist
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Talar AghbashianBook 13- Untitled --, 2020Watercolour on paper,25.5x17.5cmCourtesy of Marfa’ ProjectsCopyright The Artist
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Talar AghbashianBook 13- Rainbow, 2020Watercolour on paper25.5x17.5cmCourtesy of Marfa’ ProjectsCopyright The Artist
About the artist
Born in Beirut in 1981, Talar Aghbashian lives and works in London UK.
Aghbashian is primarily a painter, her works explore the human intervention within the landscape. Where her approach to both, painting and landscape is from a place of discovery. Her paintings, explore the human relationship to the landscape, and the projection of one onto the other. Talar Aghbashian graduated from the Lebanese University of Fine Arts (BA) 1999-2003, Central St. Martins College of Art and Design London (MA) 2007-2008, and Birkbeck University of London 2009-2010. She was a recipient of AGBU grant NY, and Benlian Trust grant London, 2007-2008. Aghbashian has thought at different schools, and MUT University in Lebanon 2003-2007, and has worked as a curator at the NHM and the V&A Museums London 2009-2010.
She has been exhibiting since 1998 in the UK, Germany, Lebanon, and the UAE. Her group exhibitions include: Musee Nicolas Sursock Beirut 2003, 2004, 2007, Barge House 2008, Cordy House 2008, Coningsby Gallery 2009, Brunei Gallery SOAS 2010, Bearspace Gallery and Mall Galleries in 2012, Turps Gallery 2016, Walker Art Gallery-Liverpool Biennal, Sluice Biennal 2017 London, Paris Internaternationale 2018, Heartbreak exhibition 58th Venice Biennale 2019, Phillips 2019, Natural Environment space 2020, First edition of South South- Veza, and Marfa In collaboration with Galleries Curate, and Terrace Gallery in 2021. Solo exhibitions include The French Cultural Center Lebanon 2005. Blind Finds at the Running Horse- Beirut 2013, Site/Sight at Carbon 12- Dubai 2015, and Transposition at Marfa projects- Beirut 2018. In 2016 Aghbashian was a recipient of the John Moores prize, UK.