Toulu Hassani

In the artist's words:

Toulu Hassani's (*1984 in Ahwaz, Iran) characteristic oil paintings are variations of structures that move across the entire canvas and make the viewer's eye search in vain for a beginning, end, middle and system. Miniature staircase shapes are twisted in reverse, reminiscent of the depictions of helixes. She often finds inspiration in scientific theories and their abstraction of microreal realities, but also in approaches to physical phenomena such as gravitational fields and lines of force or in cartography. Topics such as thermodynamics or space-time curvature and their respective visual and mathematical languages in the form of density distributions or matrices are variants that serve to describe the world and the cosmos in abstracted formulas and illustrations. Hassani uses scientific approaches and models in such a way that she develops them further with her own formal concepts, whereby she does not follow a line of reasoning but focuses on the unexpected. Her works do not attempt to explain the world, but to complement it and stand for themselves.

Toulu Hassani's works are represented in many renowned collections, including the collection of the ERES Foundation Munich; the Udo and Anette Brandhorst Collection, Munich; Kunsthalle Bremen; Collection of Contemporary Art of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn; Sprengel Museum Hanover; Kunstmuseum Stuttgart; Von der Heydt Museum Wuppertal.