Mahir Jahmal (AT) – Blue Palms, Golden Sky

Mahir Jahmal (AT)
„Blue Palms, Golden Sky”, 2015
3C (gold/blue/black) screen print on Munken Pure Paper, 300g/m2
40×50cm, edition of 36
The print ships with signed certificate

Mahir Jahmal (1986–2023) was a Vienna-born photographer and musician of Sudanese descent — a close friend and a fixture of our scene. He called himself the “Fresh Prince of Favoriten,” and anyone who met him understood why. Trained at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, he developed a singular technique: physically crumpling light-sensitive photographic paper before exposure, transforming flat images into sculptural reliefs where urban motifs dissolve into angular, painting-like structures. In 2015, he presented “This Side Up” at our Jan Arnold Gallery.

Blue Palms, Golden Sky — an earlier three-color screen print in gold, blue, and black from 2015, created around the time of his “This Side Up” solo show at the Jan Arnold Gallery. The tropical silhouette carries the same tension between flatness and depth that runs through all of Jahmal’s work.

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