Tag: Hassan Hajjaj
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14 Paintings, MODERN & CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes #4
Artists include: Laila Shawa, Khadiga Riad, Hamed Owais, Paul Guiragossian, Hossein Khosrojerdi, Hassan Hajjaj, Georges Hanna Sabbagh, Lalla Essaydi, Mahmoud Said and Sohrab Sepehri. Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting, MODERN & CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EASTERN ART, Hassan Hajjaj’s WINK, with Footnotes – #5A
Hassan Hajjaj (born Larache, Morocco in 1961) is a contemporary artist who lives and works between London, UK and Marrakech, Morocco. Hajjaj’s work is in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, New York; the British Museum, London; the Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, NC; the Newark Museum, New Jersey; Los Angeles County Museum of…
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Hassan Hajjaj, Saida, 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #88
An example of Moroccan-born photographer Hassan Hajjaj’s pop art sourced from the souks and alleyways of modern day Morocco, ‘Saida’ represents this idiosyncratic artist’s continuing fascination with notions of identity and representation. Appropriating and re-contextualising traditional ‘Orientalist’ views of women, Hajjaj playfully subverts the tropes and clichés of the Islamic world. More on this work Hassan…
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Hassan Hajjaj, WINK, c. 2007 01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 38
Hassan Hajjaj (b. Larache, Morocco in 1961) is a contemporary artist who lives and works between London, UK and Marrakech, Morocco, and is known as the “Andy Warhol of Marrakech.” Hajjaj’s work is in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, New York; the British Museum, London; the Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, NC; the…
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07 Paintings, MODERN & CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 5
Hassan Hajjaj, B. 1961, MOROCCAN WINK, c. 2007 Metallic Lambda inset with kohl boxes mounted on board in artist’s frame 94 by 66cm.; 37 by 26in. Private collection Hassan Hajjaj (born Larache, Morocco in 1961) is a contemporary artist who lives and works between London, UK and Marrakech, Morocco. Hajjaj’s work is in the collections of the Brooklyn…
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14 Paintings, MODERN & CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 4
Laila Shawa, B. 1940, PALESTINIAN THE ZAR (FROM THE WOMEN AND MAGIC SERIES), c. 1992 Acrylic on canvas 90.7 by 90.5cm.; 35¾ by 35½in Private collection The Zar is best described as a “healing cult” which uses drumming and dancing in its ceremonies. It also functions as a sharing of knowledge and charitable society among the women of…
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