Assunta Abdel Azim Mohamed |
Assunta Abdel Azim Mohamed I'm not old enough to die for your mistakes 2016 ink on paper 95 x 107 cm |
16 September - 14 October 2017 |
curated by David Lillington |
We are pleased to present Assunta Abdel Azim Mohamed's first solo exhibition in London. Assunta Abdel Azim Mohamed's drawings are at once a satire of her generation in Vienna and a study of the human condition, a painful moral comedy, with death as the anchoring motif. They are dense with incident and dense with allusion: to music, film, literature and art; to the Baroque and to Symbolism; to medicine, anatomy, the graphic arts and to contemporary popular culture. Vienna is between east and the west and genres meet there, a fact which further influences the work. Mohamed’s intelligence about the nature of drawing, and the apparent ease with which she draws, results in work that seems almost self-aware: this is an art of apperception, even while it is about other people’s lives, their ambiguous and unresolved stories. - David Lillington (2017) Assunta Abdel Azim Mohamed (b. 1993) lives and works in Vienna, Austria. She studied Romance Studies and then Graphics and Printmaking at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna. Shortlisted for eleven awards, she has won four of them. She is currently undertaking a commission for a public mural in Vienna. Her works are in private collections in Vienna, Barcelona, London, Berlin, Zürich and Lugano. Selected exhibitions include: Das Leben ist anderswo, Galerie Hilger NEXT, Vienna (solo, 2016); sechs xx sechs, Loft 8, Vienna (2016); Studenski Biennal, Belgrade (2016); Us, them, you, Studio Place Arts Gallery, Barre, Vermont, USA (2016); Curiositas, Galerie Jahidi, Paris (2016); Art Night Venezia, Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, Venice (2015). An accompanying essay by David Lillington is available as part of the exhibition. David Lillington is a writer and curator based in London. He is a member of the International Association of Art Critics and of the Association for the Study of Death and Society. He met Mohamed when she submitted work for his exhibition Death and Dying at MAG3, Vienna in 2014. In May 2017 he presented her work at the conference Death and the Maiden, University of Social Sciences, Łódź, Poland. Recent writings include Death Ltd. for Art Monthly and catalogue essays for the Gallery of Everything (on the collages of Ion Barladeanu) and for Mercer and Chance (on Aude Hérail Jäger’s Sentinels). He presented a paper on Delmore Schwartz at the Death and the Maiden conference, University of Winchester, July 2017. |
Supported by the Austrian Cultural Forum London. |
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Assunta Abdel Azim Mohamed Imposters 2017 ballpoint pen on paper 100 x 100cm and EXITUS 2017 set of 6 cups and saucers, 1 milk jug, 1 vase, tablecloth and illuminated sign dimensions variable installation view by Oskar Proctor |
Assunta Abdel Azim Mohamed Ex Libris VII (Version I & II) 2013 screen print on paper 14.8 x 21cm each installation view by Oskar Proctor |
Assunta Abdel Azim Mohamed Ex Libris II, VI and IV 2017 2 colour screen print on paper 21 x 14.8cm each installation view by Oskar Proctor |
Assunta Abdel Azim Mohamed EXITUS 2017 Set of 6 cups and saucers, 1 milk jug, 1 vase, tablecloth and illuminated sign dimensions variable photograph by Oskar Proctor |
Assunta Abdel Azim Mohamed EXITUS 2017 Set of 6 cups and saucers, 1 milk jug, 1 vase, tablecloth and illuminated sign dimensions variable photograph by Oskar Proctor |
Assunta Abdel Azim Mohamed They removed my spine 2 years ago 2017 ballpoint pen on paper 110 x 55cm installation view by Oskar Proctor |
Assunta Abdel Azim Mohamed Having doubts 2015 ballpoint pen on paper 70 x 50cm and They removed my spine 2 years ago 2017 ballpoint pen on paper 110 x 55cm installation view by Oskar Proctor |
Assunta Abdel Azim Mohamed installation view by Oskar Proctor |
Assunta Abdel Azim Mohamed Enjoying a healthy life 2016 ballpoint pen on paper 70 x 50cm photograph by Oskar Proctor |
Assunta Abdel Azim Mohamed MRM (Mechanically reclaimed meat 2017 ink on on paper 100 x 80cm photograph by Oskar Proctor |
Assunta Abdel Azim Mohamed MRM (Mechanically reclaimed meat 2017 ink on on paper and Evergreen 2017 ink on paper 100 x 80cm installation view by Oskar Proctor |
Assunta Abdel Azim Mohamed The collector 2017 ink on paper 100 x 80cm photograph by Oskar Proctor |
Assunta Abdel Azim Mohamed In(Complete) IV 2015 ballpoint pen on paper 40 x 60cm installation view by Oskar Proctor |
Assunta Abdel Azim Mohamed In(Complete) IV, III, II and I 2015 ballpoint pen on paper 40 x 60cm each installation view by Oskar Proctor |
Assunta Abdel Azim Mohamed Boshafte Blüten I 2016 ballpoint pen on paper 50 x 70cm installation view by Oskar Proctor |
Assunta Abdel Azim Mohamed Boshafte Blüten III 2016 ballpoint pen on paper 100 x 400cm photograph by Oskar Proctor |
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