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    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Hassan Sharif, Copper No. 18, 2015 Between Perception and the World, Installation view, Alexander Gray Associates, Germantown (2021-22). Photo: Dan Bradica
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    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Hassan Sharif, Copper No. 18, 2015 Between Perception and the World, Installation view, Alexander Gray Associates, Germantown (2021-22). Photo: Dan Bradica
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Hassan Sharif, Copper No. 18, 2015 Between Perception and the World, Installation view, Alexander Gray Associates, Germantown (2021-22). Photo: Dan Bradica
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Hassan Sharif, Copper No. 18, 2015 Between Perception and the World, Installation view, Alexander Gray Associates, Germantown (2021-22). Photo: Dan Bradica

    Hassan Sharif

    Copper No. 18, 2015
    Copper
    10 1/4 x 14 x 10 1/4 in (26 x 35.6 x 26 cm)
    HS350

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    Hassan Sharif’s Copper No. 18 (2015) is a work from his Objects series (1982–2016), in which he bent and intertwined copper wire through a process he called “weaving.” For the...
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    Hassan Sharif’s Copper No. 18 (2015) is a work from his Objects series (1982–2016), in which he bent and intertwined copper wire through a process he called “weaving.” For the artist, this method was a means of “doing and undoing, and then undoing and doing. Constructing, deconstructing.” This repetitive and formulaic process is a critique on the emergence and growth of consumer culture, particularly in his native Dubai. Copper is an industrial material imported to Dubai, and through working with it Sharif recognized a palpable import-export relationship. He imported the materials, repurposed them as artwork, and then exported the completed piece. Sharif remarked, “everything is political. A human, any act is political. Whether using wood or [lead], it becomes political. It is economic as well . . . each material has some kind of relational or erotic aspect in its combination with another. I think materials carry individual narratives. With some materials you can create a story. The material remains as a wire, it remains as rubber, or cotton ropes, but in the end it is also a vocabulary. It’s like an alphabet.”
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    Provenance

    Estate of Hassan Sharif

    Exhibitions

    2017: La Biennale di Venezia, 57th International Art Exhibition, Giardini, Venice, Italy

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