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Sam Samiee | "Blush of the Soil": Dastan+2

Past exhibition
25 December 2020 - 15 January 2021 +2
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Overview
Sam Samiee | 'Blush of the Soil', Dastan+2

A solo presentation of works by Sam Samiee at Dastan+2.

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Works
  • Sam Samiee, While Cloudbursts at Nowruz Wash the Tulip's Face, 2019
    Sam Samiee, While Cloudbursts at Nowruz Wash the Tulip's Face, 2019
    View Detail PageSam Samiee While Cloudbursts at Nowruz Wash the Tulip's Face, 2019 Acrylic on canvas 150 x 114 cm 59 1/8 x 44 7/8 in
  • Sam Samiee, Dead Christ in Coffin, 2018
    Sam Samiee, Dead Christ in Coffin, 2018
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    Sam Samiee
    Dead Christ in Coffin, 2018
    Acrylic on canvas
    69.5 x 206 cm
    27 3/8 x 81 1/8 in
  • Sam Samiee, Untitled (Green on Pink), 2019
    Sam Samiee, Untitled (Green on Pink), 2019
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    Sam Samiee
    Untitled (Green on Pink), 2019
    Acrylic on canvas
    205 x 168 cm
    80 3/4 x 66 1/8 in
  • Sam Samiee, Prometheus Unchained Erects Monuments for a World that Will Never Be, 2019
    Sam Samiee, Prometheus Unchained Erects Monuments for a World that Will Never Be, 2019
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    Sam Samiee
    Prometheus Unchained Erects Monuments for a World that Will Never Be, 2019
    Acrylic on canvas
    128 x 200 cm
    50 3/8 x 78 3/4 in
  • Sam Samiee, Prometheus Unchained Erects Monuments for a World that Will Never Be, 2019
    Sam Samiee, Prometheus Unchained Erects Monuments for a World that Will Never Be, 2019
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    Sam Samiee
    Prometheus Unchained Erects Monuments for a World that Will Never Be, 2019
    Acrylic on canvas
    200 x 193 cm
    78 3/4 x 76 in
  • Sam Samiee, Untitled (Green abstract), 2019
    Sam Samiee, Untitled (Green abstract), 2019
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    Sam Samiee
    Untitled (Green abstract), 2019
    Acrylic on canvas
    171.5 x 217 cm
    67 1/2 x 85 3/8 in
  • Sam Samiee, When Flowers Are Plenty the Elephants Might Stumble, 2020
    Sam Samiee, When Flowers Are Plenty the Elephants Might Stumble, 2020
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    Sam Samiee
    When Flowers Are Plenty the Elephants Might Stumble, 2020
    Acrylic on canvas
    130 x 110 cm
    51 1/8 x 43 1/4 in
  • Sam Samiee, The Scent of Dawn, 2020
    Sam Samiee, The Scent of Dawn, 2020
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    Sam Samiee
    The Scent of Dawn, 2020
    Acrylic on canvas
    130 x 110 cm
    51 1/8 x 43 1/4 in
  • Sam Samiee, While the Cloudbursts at Nowruz Wash the Tulips Face, 2020
    Sam Samiee, While the Cloudbursts at Nowruz Wash the Tulips Face, 2020
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    Sam Samiee
    While the Cloudbursts at Nowruz Wash the Tulips Face, 2020
    Acrylic on canvas
    130 x 110 cm
    51 1/8 x 43 1/4 in
Installation Views
  • 1399 2020 Sam Samiee Blush Of The Soil Dastan 2 Installation View 11 Sam Samiee11
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    Photo Credit: Matin Jamei

  • 1399 2020 Sam Samiee Blush Of The Soil Dastan 2 Installation View 10 Sam Samiee10
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    Photo Credit: Matin Jamei

  • 1399 2020 Sam Samiee Blush Of The Soil Dastan 2 Installation View 12 Sam Samiee12
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  • 1399 2020 Sam Samiee Blush Of The Soil Dastan 2 Installation View 14 Sam Samiee14
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  • 1399 2020 Sam Samiee Blush Of The Soil Dastan 2 Installation View 15 Sam Samiee15
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  • 1399 2020 Sam Samiee Blush Of The Soil Dastan 2 Installation View 17 Sam Samiee17
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  • 1399 2020 Sam Samiee Blush Of The Soil Dastan 2 Installation View 01 Sam Samiee1
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  • 1399 2020 Sam Samiee Blush Of The Soil Dastan 2 Installation View 13 Sam Samiee13
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  • 1399 2020 Sam Samiee Blush Of The Soil Dastan 2 Installation View 02 Sam Samiee2
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  • 1399 2020 Sam Samiee Blush Of The Soil Dastan 2 Installation View 16 Sam Samiee16
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    Photo Credit: Matin Jamei

Press release

Dastan presents "Blush of the Soil", a solo exhibition of works by Sam Samiee at Dastan+2. The exhibition will open on Friday, December 25, 2020 and will be on display for public viewing until January 15, 2021. This is the first solo exhibition of works by Sam Samiee at Dastan+2. His work has been previously featured in several exhibitions and international art fair presentations with Dastan including Art Basel Hong Kong, Liste Basel, Artissima, Untitled Art Miami Beach and "A Universal Pink" at the Electric Room. 

Sam Samiee (b. 1988, Tehran) is an Iranian painter, visual artist, essayist and educator based in Amsterdam and Tehran. In his work, he focuses on the practice of painting and creating exhibitions under the influence of long-term research in Persian poetry and Adab (a synthesis of both ethics and aesthetics), psychoanalysis, and art history: an encounter between Persian literary-humanistic perspective and the visual humanism of Western art history. Sam Samiee's works have been exhibited in Gemeentemuseum Den Haag (2018), Berlin Biennale X (2018), and Manchester Art Gallery (2014). One of his latest group exhibitions, titled "The Spark is You" curated by Ziba Ardalan for the 200th anniversary of Goethe's West-östlicher Divan was held at Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art (London, 2019). He has finished a two-year residency at Rijksakadmie van Beeldende Kunsten (2014-2015, Amsterdam) and has been a lecturer at AKI ArtEZ Academy for Art & Design (Enschede, Netherlands) for four years.

He is now one of the artistic directors of the artist-run space W139 in Amsterdam and will be a judge of Royal Awards for Modern Painting in Netherlands until 2024- the award he also received in 2016. As a part of the Wolvecamp award for painting in 2018, Sam Samiee has published a book called "Footenotes to Life" in English. Along Samiee, the book has contributions by Benno Temple, director of Kunstmuseum Den Haag and the curator of the Dutch pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2019, Dr. Gohar Homayounpour founder of the Freudian Group of Tehran, Dr. Sommayah Kassamali, assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the university of Toronto.

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