ARTIS DOMUS GALLERY is proud to present "KENUZ" Staff FATHI HASSAN December 3 to January 3 2010 Opening: Thursday, December 3, 2009 at 19,00 About thirty works including drawings, sculptures and paintings by Hassan Fathi different techniques will be presented December 3 at the Domus Artis Gallery, which this artist of international inaugurates its new space. All the work of Hassan, the thought of living inside a painting-writing. The desert, the white and silence become symbols and traces of his ancestors and their spirituality to be found in the containers of memory, dreams, light, and in the series of works dedicated to saints, warriors, blacks, Madonnas, leaves, maps the sacred world. Hassan moved into his paintings with bright colors and dazzling landscapes and legends of an ancient land. In his works there is always the irrepressible energy produced from a pure relationship with nature and with life itself. Far from informal approvals without trace achieves a very personal language to tell the story of his land. Between archaism and post-modernism, realism and dreamlike, the artist, through her soul and her absolute joy untouched, perhaps incomprehensible to Western sensibilities creates compositions that transport you to a world of fairy tale and a rich universe of vibration. Exposure historical result of geological strata and cultural cuts returns a reassuring record of where the works intended to evoke the same atmosphere symbolic, claiming an idea of paramount importance in which there is a symbiotic relationship of living beings with nature, alone and absolute deity who rules the world. With extreme freedom, Hassan gives us luminous settings even though sometimes linked with an ongoing struggle for survival by actively participating in the rhythm of life is represented in a grotesque, yet elegant man who loses his centrality. Hassan fills the space with media types and brands and so many colors in dialogue with the world through apotropaic figures, all made of numbers and characters that are repeated between stylistic juxtapositions and combinations, and where the prospect is denied. All the work is presented as a path around a perimeter never fully defined, a stepwise approach to something that goes away for ever reunite and discover in this movement, its power. In the fragment of matter and behind the pain of separation recognizes the strength of unity, the recall of a source that no longer affects only him but was open to the entire universe. He often uses the desert sand tangible sign of nostalgia for the land Maghreb, but also a physical component that allows pure color and an opportunity to invent a three dimensional quality even the sign of the passing of time to disperse into thin air and eternal recurrence of everything all 'infinite. The evocative use of the sand, the white chalk, black furniture writings on the meaning of incomprehensible quotes neatly scattered fossil horizons and give shape to distant landscapes, ghostly presence of man, the young camels that take the form of angels, open pathways towards 'and endless containers of history, mythology, dream and reality, past and present. The symbol contains the flavor of the desert, religion passed down orally and in Nubia always mixes the fable and the myth of origins. Conceptual elaborations where very personal memory of the millenary history of the continent lives on and it materializes in this town of a West that on the contrary seems to have forgotten his roots. Huge vases made from an arabesque of signs become containers of light or containers sacred or heavenly |