MODERN TAKING

Krome Gallery is pleased to present MODERN TAKING, Michael Hakimi's first solo exhibition in Luxembourg.

"Michael Hakimi's work is situated at the intersection of medium, form, and meaning. As such, it cannot be easily assigned to one of the categories of painting, sculpture or installation, but instead operates on and with these categories. Sculptural, pictorial, and installative elements overlap one other, thus forming a nexus that opens up relative to the phenomenal, contextual, and discursive conditions of aesthetic reflection."
–Helmut Draxler 

This exhibition at Krome Gallery will feature a new series of computer-generated images which display Hakimi's continued interest in a comic, illustrative, almost surrealist form of narration. While the artist's recent spray paintings, all in gold and black on linen, have meticulously analyzed the becoming of an image with light as its constitutive element, his new body of work apparently contrasts this cool, minimal aesthetic. Similar to the artist's early computer graphics, these new works offer an explosive mix - a montage of figures and forms telling a dense and atmospheric tale. Ultimately, though, they are just another component in the artist's ongoing investigation of the conditions of the image, exploring the question of the specificity of the medium under the condition of its de-specification.

Michael Hakimi, the son of an urbanist from Tehran, was born in 1968 in Eutlin, Germany. He teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg since 2011. His works have been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions.