Imed Ben Tahar

Contemporary abstract painting

Imed Ben Tahar

Grew up in Souk Lahad, working as a freelance artist in Tübingen.

2024 · 150 × 150 cm

Imed Ben Tahar grew up in Souk Lahad, a small oasis town on the edge of the Sahara, and came to Tübingen in 1995. His abstract painting is an engagement with memory, identity and the perception of our world.

Dubai

Selected works at The Majlis Gallery, Dubai.

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Every work on one wall

From a small 20 cm square to a large one of 150 cm, the paintings hang here at the same scale.

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  1. Painting, 140 × 90 cm: landscape canvas, a pale building with small dark windows among turquoise, emerald green and deep blue
  2. Painting, 100 × 100 cm: green and rose veils of paint hang from the top above a dark streak with a thin yellow edge
  3. Painting, 20 × 20 cm: dark, grainy olive green with rusty patches and a pale clearing just right of centre
  4. Painting, 40 × 30 cm: thickly applied white forms with brown inclusions beneath a blue sky that turns grey towards the top
  5. Painting, 150 × 150 cm: large square of cream and pale blue vertical veils with traces of pink, turning to strong blue at the bottom
  6. Painting, 100 × 100 cm: a golden-yellow field with blue traces at upper left above a dark, densely hatched band
  7. Painting, 140 × 140 cm: blue and violet veils running over a pale, finely gridded centre, with a small yellow wedge at the bottom
  8. Painting, 60 × 140 cm: tall, narrow turquoise canvas fading into blue at the bottom, with one dark stroke in the upper third
  9. Painting, 60 × 80 cm: a small white house shape emerging from many grey layers of paint above a dark, warm ground
  10. Painting, 100 × 100 cm: soft green and yellow glowing from above, with violet haze gathering below and no hard edges
  11. Painting, 50 × 70 cm: upright canvas, a red glow falling from above into a gorge of mauve and rose, thick pale paint ridges below
  12. Painting, 40 × 60 cm: dark marks resembling script and fine scratches on a rough grey ground, with a few yellow patches
Imed Ben Tahar in a flat cap and striped shirt sits smiling on a wooden floor, with two paintings on the white wall behind him.
Imed Ben Tahar, 2016

About the artist

Imed Ben Tahar has painted since his earliest childhood. He grew up in Souk Lahad on the edge of the Sahara and lives and works today as a freelance artist in Tübingen.

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Recently shown

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  1. 2025 Group exhibition Tunisia
  2. 21 January – 15 March 2024 Farben Wanderung Theater Lindenhof, Melchingen
  3. July 2024 ITSLIQUID Venice, Italy

Further works

Further works from different phases.

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Imed Ben Tahar personally answers questions about a painting, its size or how to hang it.

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Email
imedmalerei@gmail.com
Phone
+49 177 4298519

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