Untitled 2000

Hassan Massoudy made this untitled painting with ink, probably using a reed or bamboo pen, to create these gorgeous lines. I am thinking about the moment he made the large swooping blue gestures. It takes a lot of guts to make such a bold move – a single stroke that dominates the whole composition. I can imagine him loading his brush with ink, feeling the weight of it, then leaning in and letting it flow. Did he practice it a million times? Did he just wing it? It's about knowing when to stop, isn’t it? When to leave a mark as is. I love that controlled wildness - that the gesture is both precise and free. It reminds me a bit of Franz Kline, only much more elegant. Artists are always in conversation across time, riffing off one another, translating each other’s languages. Like Massoudy here, we embrace the ambiguity and uncertainty, allowing for multiple meanings.