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it. In that sense, my work is skill-less. I mean, you don't need special skills to make work that becomes art. I don't want the sculptures to appear to result from virtuosity. I'm not trying to make magic of some kind that would impress an audience as to how the work is created. There are no secrets."
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philosophy to heart, they were crafted from commonplace materials, cut, bound or tied together with rope or wire, and thus stripped of their original function." His subsequent assemblages have incorporated coir, rope, copper wire, readymade domestic products, a crutch, newspapers dipped in glue and
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The process of bundling these objects together – ‘weaving’, as Sharif calls it – has had extraordinary influence on his broader practice, both in the repetitive gesture of tying to the rudimentary handmade nature of the process. "It’s important for me that art is easy, and technically anyone can do
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notion of ‘chance and order’, which Sharif developed into his own ‘Semi-system’ way of working – based around arbitrary or over-elaborate systems that are then followed to create works, often on a grid, from ‘Body and
Squares’ (1983) to meticulously recording sentences read in a newspaper at points
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Sharif continued to create objects throughout his career, but challenged the form throughout, at various times incorporating paintings, works on paper into the assemblage and using the form to create more figurative works. In 2014, Sharif began working with mass-produced images – bundling together
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From the early ‘80s, Sharif began creating assemblages from cheap, mass-produced materials or items sourced from the UAE’s markets. With these heaps – often large in scale – Sharif was handing back as artwork the surplus of a recently and rapidly-industrialised UAE. Similarly, "as illustrations of
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in 1984, a meeting place for a generation of young artists in the country, and assembled several interventions around the city including ‘One Day
Exhibition’ (1985) and an impromptu exhibition in the city’s central market. In this period, Sharif also penned numerous articles in the UAE’s nascent
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Art as absurdist, process-based activity also fed Sharif’s early performances enacted in London and on return trips to the UAE during summer holidays – jumping in the desert, tying rope between rocks, and discussing art in the toilets of Byam Shaw School of Art with a member of the faculty. "For
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In 2007, Abdulraheem Sharif—who has been documenting and storing the artworks of
Hussein and Hassan Sharif, as well as other artists since early 90s—decided to turn his former house into a space to showcase the artworks he was warehousing, and the ones that were with the Emirati artists. Hassan
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instance, I speak while my mouth is full of bread. I take a sip of water. I eat more bread, speak, drink some more water, and so on, recording all the sounds. All the while I'm talking about serious things like politics and art, but it's an ironic delivery, imitating politicians and lecturers."
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Sharif encouraged his brother’s idea, and by
January 2008, the space was ready. Mohamed Kazem curated it, and Jose Clevers gave it the name, The Flying House. Hassan lived in The Flying House from 2008 to 2013, where he also set up his studio there during that period.
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in the 1970s as well as the UAE’s rapid urbanisation and commercial globalisation since its formation. By the time Sharif left the UAE in 1979 to pursue a formal art education, he had actively rejected calligraphic abstraction and
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In 2006, Sharif released an essay titled ‘Weaving’, which detailed the ideas that first initiated these objects, responding to what he calls a "vulgar market mentality that flooded shops with consumer goods".
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printouts, glossy magazines and pages from books, as well as illustrations from a dictionary recreated at an exaggerated scale in iron and ‘woven’ together as assemblage.
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Pavilion, La Biennale di Venezia, 53rd International Art Exhibition, Venice, curated by Catherine David.
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Sharif graduated in 1984 and set about staging the first exhibitions of contemporary art in the
Emirates. He founded Al Marijah Art Atelier in
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2019 Artists and the
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press about the history of art and translated into Arabic excerpts of 20th-century art manifestos and texts (notably about
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2017 Hassan Sharif: I Am The Single Work Artist, Sharjah Art Foundation, Curated by Shiekha Hoor Al Qasimi, Sharjah, U.A.E
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2017 Good Printing: Group Show, Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde, Dubai, U.A.E
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Adventures of the Black Square: Abstraction in Art and Society 1915-2015
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2018 Cashiers écrits, dessinés, inimprimés, Foundation Bordmer, Geneva
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2015 Hassan Sharif: The Physical Is Universal, gbAgency, Paris, France
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2018 A Century in Flux: Highlights from the Barjeel Art Foundation,
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2012 Paper, Museé d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nice, France
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2016 Book of Asia, Asia Culture Center Theater, Gwangju, Korea
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2014 Hassan Sharif, Alexander Gray Associates, New York, U.S.A
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