Fathi Hassan

Not to be confused with Hassan Fathy.
Fathi Hassan
فتحي حسن
Born (1957-05-10)10 May 1957[1]
Cairo, Egypt[2]
Nationality Egyptian (Nubian)[3][2]
Education Accademia di belle arti di Napoli (1984)[2]
Known for Painting, Sculpture, installation art
Website www.fathihassan.com

Fathi Hassan (Arabic: فتحي حسن‎) (born 10 May 1957) is an Egyptian-born, Italian-based artist known for his installations involving the written word and painting. He is considered one of the early representatives of contemporary African Art. He lives and works in Fano.[4]

Museum

Childhood

Hassan was born in Cairo in 1957 as the second son to a Nubian family.[1][2] His father Hassan was Sudanese and his mother Fatma was from Toshka in southern Egypt.[2] He studied art as a teenager at Cairo's Kerabia Middle School where he was taught by the sculptor Ghaleb Khater.[2][4]

Career

In 1976, Hassan worked for some months in a library in Iraq. The owner of the library suggested that he present himself as a commercial artist to the Ministry of Culture in Baghdad. The Ministry offered him a job and he moved to Baghdad in 1977. He worked for the Ministry for a year which included a project with Iraqi artist Kazim Haidar at the National Stadium in Baghdad involving children performing as card-turners raising 100x70 cm cards to produce animated paintings.[1]

By playing graphic symbolism against literal meaning, Hassan questions the largely Western assumption that the written word provides the best access to reality.[5]

In 1979, he received a grant from the Italian Cultural Institute in Cairo and moved to Italy.[1][2][4] He enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples in 1980 to study set design having found that the painting course was full.[1] He graduated in 1984 with a thesis on the influence of African art in Cubism.[1] While he was studying and in the year after graduating, Hassan also worked as an actor and set designer at RAI (Italian National Government Television) in Naples.[1] In 1986, he moved to Pesaro.[1]

Hassan received recognition from the Ministry of Culture (Egypt) in 1989, and he was the first artist to be selected to represent Africa at the "Aperto '88" section of the Venice Biennale. He has exhibited in numerous galleries in Egypt, France, Italy, Belgium, Denmark, Germany and United States.[6]

Hassan's work often emphasizes power relations and the relationship between the oral and written word; drawing upon his Nubian heritage, he places particular emphasis on the loss of language under the dominance of empire. Most of his scripts are based upon kufic calligraphy, but remain deliberately illegible and impossible to decipher. In his video Blessed Nubia the original language of the Egyptian region Nubia was analyzed.[7]

Hassan has lived and worked in Italy since graduating in 1984, dividing his time between Milan and Fano.[4][8][9]

Works

  • San Muanga, acrylic and sand on wooden panel, 40x30 cm, 1999
  • Santa Murita, acrylic and sand on wooden panel, 40x30 cm, 1999
  • Santa Rania, acrylic and sand on wooden panel, 40x30 cm, 1999
  • San Munir, acrylic and sand on wooden panel, 40x30 cm, 1999
  • Magic Face, acrylic and sand on wooden panel, 40x30 cm, 1999
  • Face of Africa, oil on canvas, 40x30 cm, 1999
  • The wounds that need to heal, pigments on canvas, 100x100 cm, 1999
  • African Alien, mixed media on wooden panel, 50x40 cm, 1998
  • Santa Ruan, acrylic and sand on canvas, 35x40 cm, 1998
  • Santa Nabila, oil on canvas, 30x24 cm, 1998
  • Santa Adila, oil on canvas, 30x24 cm, 1998
  • San Tarig, oil on canvas, 30x20 cm, 1997
  • San Ammao, oil on canvas, 30x20 cm, 1997
  • Santa Tamanni, oil on canvas, 100x150 cm, 1997
  • Thinking of Tata, acrylic and sand on canvas, 100x100 cm, 1997
  • Box of dreams, acrylic and sand on canvas, 100x100 cm, 1997
  • Santa Eleiham, acrylic and sand on canvas, 35x30 cm, 1996
  • Santa Kausar, acrylic and sand on canvas, 35x30 cm, 1996
  • Persecution, oil and sand on canvas, 35x30 cm, 1996
  • The tale of Mina, pigments on canvas, 50x40 cm, 1995
  • Mansur, mixed media on canvas, 60x50 cm, 1988
  • The magic room of Gazar, pigments on canvas, 240x255 cm, 1985
  • The tale of Kha, pigments on canvas, 75x75 cm, 1984
  • Terrestrial concept, pigments on canvas, 80x80 cm, 1983

Exhibition

2010

  • Fathi Hassan: Haram Aleikum, Rose Issa Projects al Leighton House Museum, London
  • Black is Beautiful, Galleria Black, Bologna
  • Nigger, Palazzo del Duca, Senigallia
  • Tasaheel, Centro d'Arte L'idioma, Ascoli Piceno

2009

  • Working Week, MQ91 Art Project Space, Berlin
  • Invites, Museum Arnhem, Holland
  • Leave the Prophets, Villa Pisani, Stra, Veneto
  • Containers of Light, Art Andrea, Vicenza
  • The Combination of Living, Espace Maria Sorgato, Venice
  • Adreatica, Permariemonti Gallery, Civitanova Marche
  • In Any Order, San Gemini, Umbria
  • Arabian World Festival, San Severina, Cortona
  • Water, The Music, Soul, Auditorium San Margherita, Venice
  • Kenuz, Domus Artis Gallery, Napoli
  • Africa Dreams, Gallery Genus, San Benedetto del Tronto, Marche

2007

  • Inscribing Meaning, Fowler Museum, Los Angeles e Smithsonian Museum of African Art, Washington DC
  • Musk, Benciv Art Gallery, Pesaro
  • The Temple of Wind, Gallery Genus, San Benedetto del Tronto
  • Ancient Kilns, Migration of Dreams, Macerata City, Macerata
  • The Sandman, Manor Gallery, Rome

2006

  • Mummy Mama, Teatro della Fortuna, Fano

Collective Exhibition

2010

  • Arabicity, Rose Issa Projects al Beirut Exhibition Center, Libano
  • Arabicity, Rose Issa Projects al Bluecoat Arts Centre, Liverpool

2009

  • Adorned/Unadorned, Skot Gallery, New York

2008

  • Dakar Biennale, Senegal
  • Words, Gallery PM Deanesi, Rovereto, Trento
  • In the Mediterranean, Ex Aurum, Pescara
  • Marina di Ravenna Award, Municipal Art
  • Museum of Ravenna
  • He is, Museum of Contemporary Art, Casoria
  • Red and White, MUSPAC, Aquila
  • The Hammer and Sickle, MUSPAC, Aquila

2007

  • Fathi Hassan: Selected Works, Skot Gallery, New York
  • Contemporary Videofusion, Studio RO, Rome
  • Horizon Lines: Landscape Between Description and Abstraction, Modern Art Gallery, Genova
  • Roseto Dialectic, Pardes Research Laboratory Of Contemporary Art, Venezia
  • A Sea of Art, Palazzo Sant’Elia, Palermo
  • Italian Dreams and Dreaming of Italy, travelling show: Teatro Junghans at Gazes Sonora, Venezia e Benevento, Rocca dei Rettori
  • Following Frascati, travelling show: Scuderia Aldobrandini; Teatro Studio, Auditorium
  • Parco della Musica, Rome; Church of the Holy Spirit, Benevento; Isola di San Servolo, Venezia
  • Chiesa di San Galgano, Siena
  • Containers of the Soul, Being, Memory, s. Geo Museum Pedro Museum Erastus, Cortes, Puebla, Mexico
  • Sarah and the Angels, Gallery Novato, Fano

2006

  • Freely, Miniaci Art Gallery, Milano
  • Sound’s Art, Opera 3, Firenze
  • Enigma exciting. Artists logically, Space Pardes, Mirano, Venezia
  • Text Messages: Five Contemporary Artists and the Art of the Word, October Gallery, London
  • Ad Hoc, Sant’Agata de Goti, Benevento, Campania
  • Italian Dreams, GASP Gallery, Brookline, Massachusetts
  • Nature: Death and Resurrection, Villa Saghetti Panichi, Castel di Lama, Ascoli Piceno
  • History of Containers, Benciv Art Gallery, Pesaro

Publications

2010

  • Fathi Hassan, Rose Issa
  • Arabicity, Rose Issa
  • Arabicity: Such a Near East, Rose Issa
  • The group shows Arabicity, Bluecoat Arts Centre, Liverpool, England
  • Beirut Exhibition Center, Lebanon
  • Egyptian Artists: Hussein El Gebaly, Hassan Mohamed Hassan, Adel Abdul Rahman, Hany Armanious, Suzy Kassem, Mahmoud Mokhtar, Fathi Hassan, Books LLC
  • Sudanese Artists: Tahia Halim, Osman Waqialla, Fathi Hassan, Ibrahim Barssi, Books LLC

2008

2007

  • Un Mare di Arte, di Tahar ben Jalloun, catalogo della mostra, Palazzo Sant’Elia, Palermo (Il Cigno Edizioni)
  • Le Marche e il XX Secolo, autori vari, Città Motta Editore

2006

  • Text Messages, October Gallery, London
  • Fathi Hassan, a History of Containers, of Morag McCarron and Rose Issa, exhibition catalogue, Benciv Art Gallery, Pesaro (Edizioni della Rovere)
  • Fabric Art, I Misteri di Ergon, by Gabriele Perretta, Latina, Palazzo M (Mimesis editrice)
  • Natura: Morte e Risurrezione, by Marisa Vescovo, Stefania Pignatelli, Lucrezia de Domizio Durini, Villa Saghetti Panichi, Ascoli

2005

  • Modern Egyptian Art: 1910-2003, Liliane Karnouk, American University in Cairo Press
  • Textures: Word and Symbol in Contemporary African Art, exhibition catalogue, The Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC
  • Creature di Sabbia, Maurizio Sciaccaluga, Fano, Edizioni Della Rovere
  • Dagli anni ’80 in poi: il mondo dell’arte contemporanea in Italia, Giulio Ciavoliello, Artshow Edizioni, Milan and Juliet Editrice, Trieste

2004

  • Palermo, La Sicilia e gli Arabi, Lorenzo Zichichi e Norberto Sicuri, Loggiato San Bartolomeo, Palermo

2003

  • Illustrateurs arabes de livres pour enfants, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris
  • Luoghi d’affezione, paesaggio-passaggio, Hotel de Ville, Brussels
  • Afriche, Diaspore, Ibridi: Il Concettualismo Come Strategia dell'arte Africana Contemporanea, Eriberto Eulisse, Forum for African Arts, Officina Grafica Litosei, Bologna
  • History, Words and Books in Modern Egyptian Art: 1910-2003, Liliane Karnouk, American University in Cairo Press

2002

  • Installation, The Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC
  • Una Babele Postmoderna: Realtà e allegoria nell’arte italiana degli anni ’90, Edoardo di Mauro, Palazzo Pigorini e Galleria San Ludovico, Parma
  • Fathi Hassan: La sostanza dell’anima, Benciv Art Gallery, Edizioni Della Rovere, Pesaro
  • Fathi Hassan, Enrico Crispolti, Edizioni della Rovere

2001

  • Immaginazione Aurea, Enrico Crispolti, Mole Antonelliana, Ancona
  • Fra Cielo e Terra, by Angelo Capasso, Galleria Pio Monti, Rome
  • Fathi Hassan: La sostanza dell’anima, Benciv Art Gallery, Edizioni Della Rovere, Pesaro
  • Images of Writing, Writing of Images: The Work of Fathi Hassan, Eulisse, Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art, 2001

2000

1999

  • Fathi Hassan: Beata Africa, Galleria Una Arte, Fano

1997

  • I Kedissen, Luigi Meneghelli, Fiorile Arte, Bologna
  • Artinceramica, exhibition catalogue, Scuderie di Palazzo Reale, Electa Editore, Naples
  • Và Pensiero: Arte Italiana 1984-86, Edoardo Di Mauro, Musei Civici, Turin
  • 3-DIME, Alfredo De Paz and Fabiola Naldi, Fiorile Arte, Bologna

1996

  • Africana, Mary Angela Schroth, Gianni Baiocchi and Olu Oguibe, Sala Uno, Rome
  • Simbolica: pittura italiana di fine secolo Edoardo Di Mauro, Fiera di Pordenone, Pordenone
  • La Dimora degli Dei, Luigi Meneghelli, Villa Anselmi-Barcanovich, Verona
  • Laboratorio Politico di Fine Secolo, Gabriele Perretta, Per Mari e Monti, Rome

1995

  • Contemporary Egyptian Art, Liliane Karnouk, American University in Cairo Press
  • Fathi Hassan: Containers of Dreams, Morag McCarron, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, United States
  • Hassan (Contenitori di Memoria), Gabriele Perretta e Francesca Pietracci, Ronchini Arte Contemporanea, Terni
  • Cose dell’Altro Mondo, Laura Cherubini, Trevi Flash Art Museum, Trevi
  • Calligrafie, Flaminio Guardoni and Nino Leone, Palazzo Fazio, Capua
  • Fvror Popoli, Forvm Popoli, Galleria Monti Romae, Rome
  • Dopo Ripe, Massimo Bignardi, Edizioni Quattro Venti, Urbino

1994

  • In Trance, by Francesca Pietracci, Annina Nosei Gallery, Rome
  • Ritratto Autoritratto, Francesca Monti, Trevi Flash Art Museum, Palazzo Lucarini, Trevi
  • Il Vento nella Scrittura, Achille Bonito Oliva, Lucilla Sacca, Roberto Sanesi, and Giampiero Comoll, Adriano Parise Editore, Verona

1992

  • Ter – Dislocazioni dell’Arte, Galleria Civica d’Arte Contemporanea, Termoli

1991

  • Akhanaton, Sette pittori del moderno Egitto, Carmen Siniscalco, Galleria civica d’arte moderna Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara
  • Passo dell’ uomo leggero, Claudio Cerritelli, Cava de Tirreni

1990

  • Artefax, Claudio Cerritelli, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna

1989

  • Duttità dello Spazio, Massimo Bignardi, Galleria Habitat, San Severo
  • La Seduzione del Reale, Massimo Bignardi, Palazzo Comunale, Treia
  • Fathi Hassan, Chafik Chamass, exhibition catalogue, La Part du Sable, Cairo
  • Fathi Hassan: Periplo intorno all’Africa, by Arcangelo Izzo, Maschio Angioino, Naples

1988

  • Catalogue, Venice Biennale
  • Confronto Indiscreto, Enrico Crispolti, Accademia d’Egitto, Rome
  • No Wall in Berlin, Ufa-Fabrik, Berlin, Germany
  • Fathi Hassan, Campanotto Editore, Udine

1986

  • Nuove Tendenze in Italia, Edoardo Di Mauro, Centro Grisanti, Milan
  • Emozionalità del Quotidiano, Massimo e Fiorillo Bignardi and Patrizia Ada, Cava dei Tirreni, Edizione Il Campo

1984

  • Città senza confine, Comune di Pomigliano d’Arco, Naples

Links

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Goncharov, Kathleen. "Biografia e lavori di Fathi Hassan, Akkij" (in Italian and Arabic). Fathi Hassan. Retrieved 19 October 2010.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Hassan, Fathi (2006). "Fathi Hassan". Fathi Hassan. Retrieved 18 October 2010.
  3. ↑ Mikdadi, Salwa. "Santa Moderna, 1998". The Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 18 October 2010.
    (see 'Related', middle image, second row from top)
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Leighton House Museum Exhibitions - Fathi Hassan". The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. 2010. Retrieved 18 October 2010.
  5. ↑ WORD PLAY
  6. ↑ Fathi Hassan Biography
  7. ↑ Oversea, art from mediterranean
  8. ↑ Goncharov, Kathleen. "Fathi Hassan: Cultural Nomad". Fathi Hassan. Retrieved 19 October 2010.
  9. ↑ "Textures: Word and Symbol in Contemporary African Art - Fathi Hassan". National Museum of African Art. Retrieved 19 October 2010.

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