Omar Hassan Italy, b. 1987

Works
  • Omar Hassan, Breaking Through Lambrate #12, 2017
    Omar Hassan
    Breaking Through Lambrate #12, 2017
    Acrylic on canvas
    180 x 200 cm
    70.9 x 78.7 in
  • Omar Hassan, Breaking Through Lambrate #3, 2017
    Omar Hassan
    Breaking Through Lambrate #3, 2017
    Acrylic on canvas
    180 x 200 cm
    70.9 x 78.7 in
  • Omar Hassan, Dal 2 Settembre 2016 al 5 gennaio 2017, 2016/2017
    Omar Hassan
    Dal 2 Settembre 2016 al 5 gennaio 2017, 2016/2017
    Spray paint on canvas
    190 x 200 cm
    74.8 x 78.7 in
  • Omar Hassan, CAP 898, 2016
    Omar Hassan
    CAP 898, 2016
    Spray can caps in plexiglas case
    75 x 75 x 5 cm
    29.5 x 29.5 x 2 in
  • Omar Hassan, Do the Right Thing, 2016
    Omar Hassan
    Do the Right Thing, 2016
    Spray paint on canvas.
    200 x 150 cm
    78.7 x 59.1 in
  • Omar Hassan, Guantone dx Milano, 2016
    Omar Hassan
    Guantone dx Milano, 2016
    Mixed media on punching glove
    30 x 15 x 12 cm
    11.8 x 5.9 x 4.7 in
  • Omar Hassan, Acid, 2015
    Omar Hassan
    Acid, 2015
    Spray paint on canvas and wood frame
    170 x 140 cm
    66.9 x 55.1 in
  • Omar Hassan, Hagakure (X,5), 2015
    Omar Hassan
    Hagakure (X,5), 2015
    Spray paint on canvas and wood frame
    83 x 63 cm
    32.7 x 24.8 in
  • Omar Hassan, Light Blue, 2015
    Omar Hassan
    Light Blue, 2015
    Spray paint on canvas and wood frame
    193 x 133 cm
    76.0 x 52.4 in
Overview

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“In boxing, as in life, you are alone: Boxing requires hard work and daily effort. When you are knocked down, you must get back up on your feet and continue to fight.”

Biography
 
Born in Milan, Italy in 1987
Omar Hassan graduated from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in 2010, and after several group and solo exhibitions, he was invited by Vittorio Sgarbi; curator of the Italian Pavilion, to exhibit at the 2011 54th Venice Biennale.
 
After 10 years of training in the professional boxing ring, Hassan was disqualified when a diagnosis of diabetes was discovered, being unable to fully explore his passion, Hassan returned to his other love; investing all his energy into the artistic practice.
In a series of paintings called "Breaking Through" Hassan combines painting and performance in his vigorously gestural technique inspired by his boxing career which involves dipping his boxing gloves into paint and punching onto a large canvas. Yet the "Injections" series consisted of paintings with single dots of colour with streams of paint issuing from the nucleus. They refer to his daily shots of insulin from being diabetic.
Hassan says he finds inspiration in the work of graffiti pioneers such as Jean-Michel Basquiat and in Jackson Pollock's masterful abstractions, but he doesn't feel to be categorised according to one style only. His work takes various forms, from whimsical dappled splotches to lines of wet paint that drip down to a street installation of raised cubes covered in rainbow tones. Furthermore, both his multilayered works on canvas and those cast in plaster or bronze reflect his trademark attention to materiality.
Hassan has created several public works in Italy and the UK. These include One Wall at the Palazzo della Regione in Milan, the Museo Mille Miglia in Brescia, the Accademia delle Belle Arti Aldo Galli in Como and Colour Cube in London's Brick Lane, the redecoration of a concrete bollard located alongside the East London Line. They all make use of his signature motif found in the injections series. 

Among the latest solo exhibitions, Quarta Civitas at the Lavazza Museum in Turin, Punctum conceived with the Federico II Foundation at the Palazzo Reale in Palermo, and IL MONDO È N(v)OSTRO at the Stelline Foundation in Milan. 

 

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