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Hassan Sharif: Political Paintings (2008-2009), Alexander Gray Associates, New York (2022)
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Hassan Sharif
Airport, 2009Oil on canvas78 3/4 x 57 1/4 in (200 x 145.4 cm)HS448Further images
Despite being best known for his evocative sculptural compositions, Hassan Sharif was trained as a painter and initially received recognition for his figurative images. Having previously worked as a political...Despite being best known for his evocative sculptural compositions, Hassan Sharif was trained as a painter and initially received recognition for his figurative images. Having previously worked as a political cartoonist, many of Sharif’s works are imbued with biting cultural critique and political satire. In Airport (2009), Sharif depicts a throng of people, their faces and bodies abstracted to the point where they appear to become one large mass, fusing together as their individuality fades. Musing on the symbolic and political utility of art, Sharif said: “The function of the image is not only to overlap or intertwine with the truth. Images are above the truth in terms of their rank and absorb the truth; thus in our age images help create truth and its opposite.”
Exhibitions
2022: Hassan Sharif: Political Paintings (2008–2009), Alexander Gray Associates, New York, NY
