My Biography

Rabeah Mashinchi (Tehran, 1974) is a contemporary artist who has always trained and worked between two very different countries, Iran and Italy, maintaining in her production the delicate balance of contrasting influences that result from this. Suspended between innovation and tradition, the artist utilizes all the tools derived from her eclectic education, which encompasses various fields of visual arts. Her design studies in Tehran and painting studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Verona are synthesized in her profound interest in constant updates, including video, photography, and installation, although the majority of her body of work remains tied to traditional painting.

Rabeah Mashinchi’s pictorial production is in continuous evolution, a symptom of her constant search for new themes, while maintaining a stylistic coherence that makes her works immediately recognizable. Her language is mature and conscious, having chosen gestural abstraction as her preferred expressive mode. The intense chromaticism that characterizes her work plays a catalytic role in understanding the creative action and emphasizes the meaning of the work, which is nonetheless clarified by the title. Her personal contribution is clearly identifiable and is expressed in the studied freshness of each work, which does not fail to demonstrate the artist’s debt to erudite references from art history. The studied randomness of proportions and chromatic contrasts is interrupted by subtle elements, in most cases obtained by directly scraping the pictorial surface, consisting of simple figurations but with a rich symbolic contribution. Hieratic figures that are perfectly integrated into the material include the egg, the bird, or the lamp, juxtaposed or isolated on the canvas but hyper-present in the artist’s painting. The different elements do not interfere with each other but generate, in their juxtaposition, a strongly immersive experience capable of transporting the viewer into a dimension dominated by Rabeah Mashinchi’s warm tones.