Toulu Hassani

Toulu Hassani’s (*1984 in Ahwaz, Iran) typical oil paintings are variations of structures that move across the entire canvas and let the beholder’s eye search in vain for a beginning, end, middle, and system. Miniature-like staircase forms are twisted inversely; one is reminded of the representations of helixes. She is often inspired by scientific theories and their abstraction of micro-realm realities as well as, for instance, approaches to physical phenomena like gravitational fields and force lines, or even cartography. Topics like thermodynamics or space-time curvature and their respective visual and mathematical languages in the form of density allocations or matrixes are variants that serve to describe the world and the cosmos in abstracted formulas and illustrations. Scientific approaches and models are used by Hassani such that she develops them further with her own formal concepts, following no line of argument but placing the focus on that which cannot be expected. Never wanting to explain the world, her works only want to complement it for their own sake and stand for themselves.

The works by Toulu Hassani are part of numerous international collections, including ERES-Stiftung Munich; der Udo und Anette Brandhorst Sammlung, Munich; Kunsthalle Bremen; The Federal Collection of Contemporary Art Germany, Bonn; Sprengel Museum Hannover; Kunstmuseum Stuttgart; Von der Heydt Museum Wuppertal.