Hani Zurob
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“He is a typical Palestinian from the class which has suffered the most. His most recent paintings have been made up of bitumen and not paint. I find this very symbolic. Bitumen is the dirtiest of all materials and yet out of this he creates art, producing human faces that look illuminated. He is a guy to watch as he connects with all generations of image-makers.”
This guy, which Kamal Bouallata(2009) describes in these words, is the artist Hani Zurob. He was born in 1976 in Rafah Refugee Camp in Gaza and he left Gaza in 1994 to study Fine Arts in Najah University in Nablus. From there he went to Ramallah where he settled and worked until 2006.
He is well known as a painter, but recently he has been exploring other mediums such as photography, and has proved to be a promising and creative young artist on different levels. His art works were appreciated by viewers, critics and art collectors in Palestine and abroad. In 2002, he was granted with the Young Artist Award given by of Abdul Muhsen Qattan Foundation in Ramallah. He was also the first Arab to win the Prize and Grant of the Renoir Association in France in 2009.
Zurob belongs to a young generation of Palestinian artists born into the harsh reality of occupation, exile and displacements that which affected all aspects of their lives. Although he considers his art a reflection of this reality through his individual personal experience and away from politics and clichéd slogans. For Zurob the subject of his research is his life which has been, from the first moment, under occupation. He also says that he paints for the sake of finding visual lines that are parallel to his days.
In 2006, he travelled to France as a grantee of the French Consulate. The grant included Artist in Residence at the International City of Arts in Paris. Due to the Israeli siege on Gaza and since Israel refused to deal with Hamas after the Palestinian election, as many other Gazians, Hani faced enormous difficulties returning to Ramallah & to Gaza where his family is still living. Currently he lives and works in Paris.
Despite his young age Hani Zurob had many worldwide, successful solo exhibitions in Palestine, France, USA and Morocco. He participated in group exhibitions such as Made in Palestine which toured in the USA in 2003, Colors of Freedom and Life, Gallery UNESCO-Paris 2005, Paris, Damascus: regards croisés, The Arab World Institute – Paris 2008, Gaza 61 – Seoul 59, South Korea 2009. Recently he exhibited at the World Arab Institute in Paris as part of a Major exhibition on Palestinian Contemporary Art “Palestine, la creation dans tous ses états”, where he participated with his seven fairly large “Standby 60” paintings. Quoting Le Monde / Paris on this exhibition: “The artists reveal an unfinished story, illustrated by the paintings of Hani Zurob and his sitting men, painted with a mixture of tar, henna & pigments, endeavoring to delay death”.
*Quoted from the magazineThis week on Palestine magazine, 2009
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Documents of Contemporary Art. Utopias: Throughout its diverse manifestations, the utopian entails two related but contradictory elements: the aspiration to a better world, and the acknowledgment that its form may only ever live in our imaginations. Furthermore, we are as haunted by the failures of utopian enterprise as we are inspired by the desire to repair the failed and build the new... |
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South African Art Now. South African Art Now documents, through in-depth essays and stunning full-color photographs, the remarkable work of nearly one hundred South African artists working in every medium from painting, sculpture, and video to cutting-edge performance art. This lush volume includes the impressive work of art world stars such as William Kentridge and Marlene Dumas; newly prominent artists such as Berni Searle, Robin Rhode, and Mustafa Maluka; and exciting newcomers still unknown outside their own country, but clearly marked for success... |
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James Rosenquist. Painting Below Zero: Notes on a Life in Art. “Frank, funny, truthful, ironic and in every way an entertaining account of one major American artist’s involvement in an art movement that interests everyone–and, more than that, of his own character. Jim Rosenquist is a true American original and his book ought to be read by anyone who wants to understand the last half-century of his country’s visual culture, high, low, and in between.” –Robert Hughes, amazon |
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