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until 11.04. | #4955ARTatBerlin | Galerie Soy Capitán currently shows the exhibition Francis – Paintings Drawings Sculptures 2023–2025 by the artist Shahin Afrassiabi.
Soy Capitán presents more than seventy works that emerged from an intensive engagement with an iconic photograph by Francis Bacon taken in his studio in 1971.
Starting with this image, Afrassiabi developed a multifaceted body of work over several years, which is not understood as a portrait, but rather as a series of variations and transformations of a motif. Recurring elements and formal shifts open up new pictorial spaces in which gestures, structures, and meanings are constantly changing. The photograph serves as the starting point for an open artistic investigation that increasingly detaches itself from the original image and generates independent visual worlds.
Photo: Roman März, Courtesy Soy Capitán, Berlin
The presentation deliberately avoids a hierarchical order, instead creating a dense, immersive situation in which the works enter into a dialogue with one another. The serial structure and the diversity of variations point to the possibilities of painting as a process between control and openness, repetition and difference. In this context, engaging with Bacon becomes a reflection on painting itself, as well as on fundamental questions of artistic production and perception.
Exhibition dates: Friday, 13. February – Saturday, 11. April 2026
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Bildunterschrift Titel: Shahin Afrassiabi Untitled (Variation) 41, 2023–2025, oil on canvas, 195 x 180 cm, SA/M 203. Photo: Roman März. Courtesy the artist & Soy Capitán, Berlin
Exhibition Shahin Afrassiabi – Galerie Soy Capitán | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
