{"id":154683,"date":"2024-07-10T17:06:39","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T16:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centmagazine.co.uk\/?p=154683"},"modified":"2024-07-12T11:33:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T10:33:30","slug":"exploring-the-beautiful-spaces-on-canvas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/?p=154683","title":{"rendered":"Exploring The Beautiful Spaces on Canvas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-05e4ba94a3ea83c97bbb14c078cd7ea3 wp-block-paragraph\">If nothing else, art in our modern world is all about what each person chooses to see and feel, when they engage with a piece of work.  Is it the colours? Is it the texture,? Is it the content or even its size? Sometimes though  it is what is not there that becomes the most striking visual element of a painting.  An image of the dining room, table and chairs, but there is no one to sit, gather and enjoy. A portrait without a face, what does this mean? The Space, in the silence the void speaks volumes.  <em>Find out more in Exploring The Beautiful Spaces on Canvas<\/em>.  Image on left Mohammed Sami, Reborn<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b09bbc774b8c954473c18b04048315cd wp-block-paragraph\">The empty table; significant at this moment in time. A long table with food and drink but empty chairs, where are the people? In Israel, this is the artistic statement made by those drawing attention to those still individuals held captive by Hamas. In Palestinian territories, many created posters in solidarity with their cause.  But it&#8217;s the space that leaves the biggest impact, it&#8217;s not just who is missing but why&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-21801d5cfe1ea978f90b6206192067ba wp-block-paragraph\">A new exhibition, &#8216;After the Storm&#8217;, by Mohammed Sami at Blenheim Palace has opened.  From Tuesday 9th July to Sunday 6th October 2024,   it marks a decade of Blenheim Art Foundation&#8217;s award-winning programme of contemporary art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-c6d6ba740639cda0aa73d316fc150fa3 wp-block-paragraph\">Drawing on his own experiences living under Saddam Hussein\u2019s regime in Baghdad, and subsequently, as a refugee in Sweden, artist, Mohammed Sami uses large-scale paintings, of abandoned interiors, claustrophobic cityscapes and eerie depictions of everyday objects including clothing, mattresses, chairs and tables, to explore displacement, war, loss and power,  and in many ways by what cannot be seen from conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9726e89f4250a4c131366ecb9c380fa3 wp-block-paragraph\">There is a haunting absence of people within each image, these depictions of space within place.  But abandonment goes further than the rooms and homes left behind.  There is the deeper trauma of lost love, separation and utter aloneness that seeps through the sun-bleached colours of these familiar yet haunting images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ec156a33d070ca6628804fd881d0a0fb wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>&#8216;painting becomes the only medium to grasp what is not there in painting anymore&#8217;.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-38ccf29373dc617bd9aa4f215011b28d wp-block-paragraph\">Mohammed Sami <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5132bfd53394bac00de2bc277cc49127 wp-block-paragraph\">Not only regarding past loss but future emptiness, canvases haunted by those left behind whether physically or metaphorically; space that echoes more than by filling in an image. It is not just a lost life but the unborn lives that never had a chance to come into the world and fulfil their potential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-722991555cc7498a16f8ea0f3660dee8 wp-block-paragraph\">For this exhibition, the artist developed an entirely new body of work, building on recurring themes and imagery within his practice, and at the same time drawing inspiration from the history and collection of the Palace itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4a9aa67e8eaf7dc4640727661c4a0c06 wp-block-paragraph\">Named after the 1704&nbsp;Battle of Blenheim, the building was originally intended to be a reward to&nbsp;John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough&nbsp;from Queen Anne for his military triumphs against the&nbsp;French&nbsp;and&nbsp;Bavarians&nbsp;in the&nbsp;War of the Spanish Succession, culminating in the Battle of Blenheim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-19636644052e5e8735418ddfb401acc1 wp-block-paragraph\">Still lived in today by the current Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, illustrious paintings, sculptures and tapestries depict war scenes and portraits of the British establishment,  alongside former regal inhabitants and visitors including luminaries such as Sir Winston Churchill; its most famous inhabitant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-bd8973540900bdaf042e5aa04785d0c0 wp-block-paragraph\">After several visits, the artist spent over a year making site-specific artworks, some of which were specifically painted to hang in exact rooms. Using Blenheim\u2019s interiors and artworks as inspiration, the works blend into the surroundings as if always having hung unnoticed there, whilst shocking the viewer into deep thought at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5fee1819aa5c2a90e4e487519539f2ca wp-block-paragraph\">Take, for example, <em>After the Storm<\/em>, the central painting in the series. Hung in the Green Drawing Room which contains a rich collection of classical portraits, this vast almost trompe l\u2019oeil painted surface appears \u2018real\u2019 or three-dimensional, the &#8216;faded&#8217; yellow of the brocade wallpaper of both the room and of the painting meld, becoming almost one.  <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/4.-Mohammed-Sami-After-the-Storm-installation-view.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"716\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/4.-Mohammed-Sami-After-the-Storm-installation-view.jpg?resize=580%2C716&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-154941\" style=\"width:630px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/4.-Mohammed-Sami-After-the-Storm-installation-view.jpg?w=682&amp;ssl=1 682w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/4.-Mohammed-Sami-After-the-Storm-installation-view.jpg?resize=243%2C300&amp;ssl=1 243w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-14850a1fa67952360c0cfea9c40daafe wp-block-paragraph\">Mohammed Sami, <em>After the Storm<\/em> Mixed media on linen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1f4f1776e227f5c26dcbe60f6149a86a wp-block-paragraph\">Yet there is a more faded rectangle as if a painting that sat there for years, has been removed. Hauntingly ghostly, yet beautiful and thought-provoking, a final question also lingers&#8230;who removed the picture and why? Black dots scatter left to right, are these bullet holes?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4fb4e890d82a7f1a4c338d0326360553 wp-block-paragraph\">Or take the image <em>The Grinder, <\/em>from a bird&#8217;s eye view looking down on an empty table and chairs, the only suggestion of any kind of life form is the shadow of the ceiling fan, reminding us that every day still goes on.  The pattern of the carpet, light and shadow meet where brightness bleaches colour, tells us the sun still comes up and goes down every 24 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Exploring-The-Beautiful-Spaces-on-Canvas.-Mohammed-Sami-The-Grinder-installation-view.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"387\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Exploring-The-Beautiful-Spaces-on-Canvas.-Mohammed-Sami-The-Grinder-installation-view.jpg?resize=580%2C387&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-154942\" style=\"width:684px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Exploring-The-Beautiful-Spaces-on-Canvas.-Mohammed-Sami-The-Grinder-installation-view.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Exploring-The-Beautiful-Spaces-on-Canvas.-Mohammed-Sami-The-Grinder-installation-view.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Exploring-The-Beautiful-Spaces-on-Canvas.-Mohammed-Sami-The-Grinder-installation-view.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6bd1a7e45c3ad3b63670bb7160df74bd wp-block-paragraph\">Mohammed Sami, <em>The Grinde<\/em>r Mixed media on linen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7ebf9e17ffaa7f0913f0d0268f4ce994 wp-block-paragraph\">The abandoned room with the space left by its former occupants echoes a kind of white noise of what&#8217;s been left behind.  The only present sound the never-ending turns of the fan&#8230; did they leave it in a hurry and forget to turn the fan off, we don&#8217;t know the story but imagination is in some ways more powerful than what may have happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4fb67772a7efe663c106cb7d7f90fdfb wp-block-paragraph\">Hung in the ceiling of the Great Hall, where <em>The Grinder<\/em> hangs, is James Thornhill\u2019s allegorical painting of Victory, (Roman god of victory) crowning John Churchill, First Duke of Marlborough, as she points to a plan of the 1704 Battle of Blenheim, at which he triumphed over the French during the War of the Spanish Succession. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-f1db02c384bef8fdd2eed03d0fa6e3d5 wp-block-paragraph\">The Palace, a site filled with artworks that glorify war military achievements and territorial expansion become the perfect foil for all these works that pull away from victorious glory to post pain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-00880dda2df20f51f58c7365a868fa9d wp-block-paragraph\">Yet, some portraits do appear in these new works, but not in any way like the established portraiture hanging from almost every wall in this historical house, of classical figures, painted larger than life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a18501e0dfc332f740dfc2248493b1dd wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Wall of Cockroaches<\/em>, part portrait, part image &#8216;blown&#8217; away head, questions the role of the military.  The artist was intrigued by the ceremonial attire in portraits of the successive Dukes of Marlborough and the ways such historical figures have projected their power through portraiture, uniform and pageantry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-f3e65ce90bd8a9b65c2d11d64531fe72 wp-block-paragraph\">A theme he has touched on through his 10 years of work, find in the Long Library, <em>Stiff Head <\/em>and <em>Wall of Cockroaches<\/em> that frame John Michael Rysbrack\u2019s marble statue of Queen Anne, the monarch who gifted Blenheim to the First Duke. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/11.-Mohammed-Sami-Stiff-Head-installation-view.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"387\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/11.-Mohammed-Sami-Stiff-Head-installation-view.jpg?resize=580%2C387&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-154943\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/11.-Mohammed-Sami-Stiff-Head-installation-view.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/11.-Mohammed-Sami-Stiff-Head-installation-view.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/11.-Mohammed-Sami-Stiff-Head-installation-view.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5457f6573a9c9ff250e7c03b8258e966 wp-block-paragraph\">Mohammed Sami Stiff Head Acrylic on linen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3163ce3017d5374cc10ce7ff466f02d2 wp-block-paragraph\">Both paintings are of unidentified generals in ceremonial dress, the former reminiscent of the hussar uniform of an 18th-century cavalry officer and the latter of a 20th-century military leader. Neither picture shows a head, a face, a comment perhaps on the &#8216;fall&#8217; of leaders or even the pulling down of the status of military dictators. In <em>Wall of Cockroaches<\/em> the rather hated insects crawl across the canvas, perhaps a once loved image of a beloved leader, left to rot, as if abandoned by his supporters.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Exploring-The-Beautiful-Spaces-on-Canvas.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"773\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Exploring-The-Beautiful-Spaces-on-Canvas.jpg?resize=580%2C773&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-154759\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Exploring-The-Beautiful-Spaces-on-Canvas.jpg?w=750&amp;ssl=1 750w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Exploring-The-Beautiful-Spaces-on-Canvas.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d5b1f3faa237c373995403993e1e7faa wp-block-paragraph\">Mohammed Sami Wall of Cockroaches Mixed media on linen <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-581b0a31b0a1fc4eb771a2b5b8eccd66 wp-block-paragraph\">There are 14 images in all, some of which deal indirectly with the artist&#8217;s own experiences of conflict some are commentaries on others. As well as other content such as abandoned items, shadows, land and even water. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d48d600d138d533ab3a9ef23ac7d7a3e wp-block-paragraph\">The subtle placement of each image, with purpose, almost allows them to meld into the scenery, to be missed; yet not.  Because the emotional impact catches the power of each painting, like a blast of emotive power.  Here context plays such a huge part in the intense joy of this exhibition, the juxtaposition of painting and place, the glory of war and its reality, the archetypal British Lord and the refugee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e58d55e506f7cbef26f0ce862e62055a wp-block-paragraph\">On top of all the metaphors is the sense of shadow and light.   It is as if the artist brought the sunshine of his birthplace into each image, where the light may have faded colours yet the light brings a sort of non-harmonious &#8216;Chiaroscuro of his loss&#8217; to the paintings; and a little bit of heartbreak to the viewer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a65d28d80c6b2dc6caa60ec628174867 wp-block-paragraph\">The exhibition will be open from 9 July \u2013 6 October 2024, 10.30am 4.45pm to find out more visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blenheimartfoundation.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.blenheimartfoundation.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b7cf2ffc8cd5a49002ce9f3d61b95125 wp-block-paragraph\">If you enjoyed reading <em>Exploring The Beautiful Spaces on Canvas <\/em>why not read<em> <a 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