And The World Goes By: Solo Exhibition by Irfan Ajvazi: Tao Gallery

And The World Goes By

Tao is pleased to present a focused exhibition of new paintings by Irfan Ajvazi at its gallery in Singapore.

The exhibition, titled Irfan Ajvazi: And The World Goes By , will feature a selection of works that meditate on painting’s relationship to time and space.

Irfan‘s practice has been influenced by both European figurative painting and American abstract painting.

Irfan’s upcoming exhibition with Tao Gallery in Singapore, in vary in scale, with several works— including the two largest—painted entirely in egg tempera and two small-scale ones in oil.

After studying painting , Irfan moved to Friedrichshafen and co- founded the cooperative gallery Bark Art Space in 2021. For the past two decades, the artist has culled and simplified elements from a rich repository of photographs and memories to create his atmospheric paintings. Methodically layered and meticulously composed, his work centers on precise representation.

The most direct, clear-cut reference to Tao‘s seventh floor appears in and the world goes by, which depicts a spectral figure reflected in the gallery’s floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the Chelsea skyline. This work suggests that the figures in all the paintings in the show move through the same gallery space as the viewer—both the real and imagined visitors to the seventh floor occupy the space at different times.