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Fathi Hassan (Arabic: فتحي حسن, born 10 May 1957) is an Egyptian-born, Italian-based artist known for his installations involving the written word.[1]

  • Fathi Hassan
  • فتحي حسن
Born (1957-05-10) 10 May 1957 (age 65)
Cairo, Egypt
EducationAccademia di Belle Arti di Napoli (1984)
Known forPainting, sculpture, installation art
Websitefathihassan.com

Life


Fathi Hassan was born in Cairo in 1957 as the second son to a Nubian family.[2] His father Hassan was Sudanese and his mother Fatma was from the Toshka Lakes region in southern Egypt. He attended the Kerabia school in Cairo, where he met the sculptor Ghaleb Khater.[1]


Work


In 1979, Hassan received a grant from the Italian Cultural Institute in Cairo and moved to Naples.[1][2] He enrolled at the Accademia di Belle Arti in 1980 to study set design.[2] He graduated in 1984 with a dissertation on the influence of African art in Cubism.[2] While he was studying and in the year after graduation, Hassan also worked as an actor and set designer at RAI (Radiotelevisione Italiana works) in Naples and Rome.[2] In 1986, he moved to Pesaro.[2]

In 1989 Hassan was the first artist of African heritage to be invited to the "Aperto" section of the 43rd Venice Biennale curated by Dan Cameron and Giovanni Carandente. He has exhibited in numerous galleries in Italy, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, France, Egypt, and United States.[citation needed]

Hassan's work often emphasizes power dynamics and the relationship between the oral and written word; drawing from his Nubian heritage, he places particular emphasis on the loss of language under the dominance of colonialism. Most of his scripts are based upon kufic calligraphy, but remain deliberately illegible and impossible to decipher. In his video Blessed Nubia (2002) is an analysis of the original language of Nubia.[3]

Hassan has lived and worked in Italy since 1979, dividing his time between Rome, Milan and Fano.[1][4][5]


References


  1. Exhibitions. Leighton House Museum; The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Archived 29 November 2010.
  2. Kathleen Goncharov (2009). Biografia e lavori di Fathi Hassan, Akkij (in Italian and Arabic). www.fathihassan-akkij.com. Archived 2 May 2009.
  3. Oversea: Art from Mediterranean Archived 28 December 2021 at the Wayback Machine. Casoria: Casoria Contemporary Art Museum. Accessed December 2021.
  4. Kathleen Goncharov (2007). Fathi Hassan: Cultural Nomad. In: Micaela Nardi (editor) (2007). Fathi Hassan: Safir (exhibition catalogue). Senigallia: Ed. Della Rovere. Archived 2 April 2009.
  5. Textures: Word and Symbol in Contemporary African Art – Fathi Hassan Archived 26 September 2010 at the Wayback Machine. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian National Museum of African Art. Accessed December 2021.

Further reading



На других языках

- [en] Fathi Hassan

[es] Fathi Hassan

Fathi Hassan (en árabe, فتحي حسن‎, nacido el 11 de mayo de 1957) es un artista africano.[1]

[fr] Fathi Hassan

Fathi Hassan (né en 1957) est un peintre africain, né dans une famille d'Égypte et du Soudan. Connu comme étant l'un des principaux représentants de l'art africain contemporain, il vit aux États-Unis et en Italie.

[it] Fathi Hassan

Fathi Hassan (in arabo: فتحي حسن‎; Il Cairo, 10 maggio 1957) è un pittore e scultore egiziano, esponente dell'arte contemporanea africana[1].


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