BRUSSELS.- Michel Rein gallery is presenting Farah Atassi’s second personal exhibition in Brussels.

Farah Atassi’s work hasn’t stopped taking us along a journey through the History of Art since 2008. Her painting dialogues both with figuration, abstraction and ornamental patterns.

The first interpretation of Atassi’s painting is frontal as the eye perceives at first global information before focusing on details to finally reconstruct the whole work. Here we get closer to the optical art field even though we perceive cubism, pointillism, suprematism, geometrical abstraction and the universe of Ettore Stoosass in Atassi’s work.

Each area on the picture is painted with geometrical patterns, objects, artists’ daily instruments such as a palette, which brings us to another dimension : the dimension of a long and hard-built architecture. Architecture of a place, but also of objects. These objects are meticulously placed in space fo finally dominate it such as « Keyboard with a Palette » or mixed up with it like « The Party2 ».

This control would not be that interesting without the emotion and the musicality present in every painting. Each work looks like a musical construction and it is interesting to discover the presence of instruments in 2 of the 4 paintings presented in the exhibition.

It is not only a journey throughout Art History but more specifically a journey with all kinds of Arts and senses.

Farah Atassi was born in 1981 in Brussels. She lives and works in Paris.

Selection of solo shows:Musée des Beaux-Arts, Cambrai, France (Novembre 2018), Ghebaly gallery, Los Angeles, USA (2017), Xippas gallery, Paris, France (2016), Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp, Belgium (2015), Michel Rein, Belgium (2015), Le Grand Café, Saint Nazaire art center, France (2014), Le Portique, art contemporary center, Le Havre, France (2014), Farah Atassi & Stéphanie Cherpin, Edouard Manet gallery, Gennevilliers, France (March 2012),…

Selection of group shows:Bienale de Moscou (2017), Theatre of the absurd, Green Art Gallery, Dubaï, United Arab Emirates (2017), Yoknapatawpha, Bienale of painting, Roger Raveel Museum, Machelen-Zulte, Belgium, curated by Piet Coessens (2016), Le Palais de Tokyo acceuille le Prix Jean-François Prat, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (2016), It Rained Again, with : David Adamo, Farah Atassi, Wojciech Bakowski, Lionel Maunz and Christine Rebet, Bureau, New York, USA (2015), Avec et sans peinture, works of the collection, MAC/VAL, Valde-Marne, France (2014/2015) Fruits de la passion: collection du musée national d'art moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France and Hyogo (2014), Prefecturam Museum of Art, Kobé,Japan (January– March 2014), Prix Marcel Duchamp, France (2014), …

Collections : Collection Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, USA - Collection Musée d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France - ENSB-A, Ecole - Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France - Fondation Louis Vuitton pour la création, France - FMAC, Fonds Municipal d'Art - Contemporain, Paris, France - MAC/VAL, Musée d'art contemporain Val de Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France - Musée National dArt Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France - Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg, France - Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Paris, France - Frac Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France - Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dole, France -Musée régional d'art contemporain LanguedocRoussillon-Midi-Pyrénées, Sérignan, France - Société Générale, Paris-la Défense, France