Omar Hassan - Breaking Through

Omar Hassan

Breaking Through

Omar Hassan

Breaking Through

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Photographs by Deniz Guzel Catalogue Design by Tinder & Sparks Front cover: Breaking Through #3, Detail 2014, Mixed media Back cover: Black Soul 2015, Mixed media

Breaking Through 24 April – 10 June 2015 Contents 5 Introduction

by Baroness Barbara Young, CEO of Diabetes UK 6

Love is a Fight. A fictional response to the work of Omar Hassan

by Cedar Lewisohn

8 Introduction

by Dr. Diego Giolitti and Ulia Rabko

11 Artworks

11 Breaking Through 33 Caps 55 Injections 151 3D Works

179 Appendix

180 Biography – Solo Exhibitions –

Collections and Museums

181 Group Exhibitions

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Introduction

by Baroness Barbara Young CEO of Diabetes UK Diabetes UK is proud to be working in partnership with Omar Hassan and ContiniArtUK. As a person with type 1 diabetes, Omar’s art provides the viewer with a unique insight into a life of constant awareness and medication. We are delighted to be able to work with such an inspiring young artist. Omar is proof that people with diabetes can live full and healthy lives.

Omar’s #Injections series shows just how much Omar’s life has been shaped by his daily insulin injections; something many people with diabetes will have a direct connection with. His determined and positive personality shines through in every piece, creating a very striking collection.

Diabetes UK is the leading diabetes charity in the UK – caring for, connecting with and campaigning on behalf of the 3.8 million people with the condition in the United Kingdom. For those with diabetes, eye sight loss, amputation and increased rates of heart disease are all daily concerns.

Although there is no cure for diabetes, in the past year we have invested £6.5million into 120 various research projects. Over the years our research grants have helped to fund projects which have changed the landscape of daily life for people with diabetes. Our funding supported the projects which developed the world’s first insulin pen and digital blood glucose monitors. These developments are now helping people with diabetes to stay healthy. With the support of amazing individuals and companies like Omar and ContiniArtUK, we will continue to help those with diabetes to live full and long lives.

Omar and ContiniArtUK are working together with Diabetes UK to raise the all-important awareness and funds we need to be able to continue our work. As a charity, we rely on the incredible generosity of our supporters. We are extremely grateful to those who help support our work.

Raising awareness of diabetes is key in the battle to helping people to recognise and manage their condition. It is estimated that there are currently over 680,000 people in the UK with undiagnosed diabetes.

A lot of our work is in education and increasing awareness of the symptoms and complications of diabetes. We are committed to educating and supporting people with diabetes and their families through every step of their journey.

I am very much looking forward to being able to experience the creation of one of Omar’s piece’s in his live artistic performance on 23 April. He has generously agreed to auction off this one of a kind artwork in aid of Diabetes UK . Please do support Omar and our work by investing in this opportunity to own a completely unique piece.

On behalf of Diabetes UK, I would like to thank Omar and ContiniArtUK for their incredible generosity.

We are truly privileged to be able to call them our supporters.

Baroness Barbara Young CEO of Diabetes UK

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Love is a Fight A fictional response to the work of Omar Hassan*

by Cedar Lewisohn I always wanted to be an artist. I always wanted to communicate something I could never put into words. All my sadness. All my love. Sometimes I feel so hollow. I enjoy the stupidity of creativity. The absurdity of recording these moments of joy and fear. Every step of the way, people, the world,tries to stop you. The world can crush and defeat you.Or you can fight back.I went through some tragic situations that no fourteen year-old boy should have to experience. Raised in a tough neighborhood on the outskirts of Milan, I lost loved ones and peers. Witnessing the death of my best friend while painting graffiti marked me tragically. So I started going to the gym to box. For me, boxing is the noblest art. Boxing became my life and a creative output.

I have always had to fight, to hustle.Through boxing I had to learn to breathe. For every offensive punch, the oxygen has to come fast into your lungs. Inhale quickly and your body tightens. So when someone punches you, the shock absorbs. You learn to live with the pain. You learn to live with the bruises. Breathe from the diaphragm, close your mouth and exhale through the nose. Your heart knows what to do. Your lungs know what to do. To make good art is also a fight. It’s a romantic cliché, but it’s true. Truth is born of argument. I was training regularly now. My body toned. Muscles taut. I was eating right and in my weight category I was good, very good. I had no fear in the ring. I have no fear in the studio. Boxing is about intelligence, as much as it is about instinct and practice. Move your feet in the right patterns. Dance around the canvas. You have to not only predict your opponent’s next move, but encourage it. You are alone in the ring. You are taking the hits and trying to give them back. There are pauses, the minute of rest between the rounds. You have to stand up when you fall. If you are knocked to the groundyou have to find the energy and the desire within yourself to get up and carry on fighting, until the last round when you either win or lose.

Non-fighters always want to know, how do you live with the pain? How do you deal with being punched over and over? There is no simple answer to this. The feeling of being punched is indescribable. Being punched in the face or head, more so. When I would fight, I was in a sort of agonistic trance, I didn’t feel the pain until later. I was numb. My eyes would often stay open while I was being punched in the face. I experienced it all. Time slows down and the moment of connection can feel like a lifetime, but I had tostart fighting again a split second later. Then there are the stronger fists, the heavy hitters. These blows stay with you for years. You have a sense of being inside your body and outside of it at the same time, your eyes close and for a few seconds there is a void. It’s like getting run over by a truck. But you recover and you’re back to fighting, taking and giving more punches. The other side is landing a good right hook, or a quick succession of body jabs. Then it was the high gothic sculpture of Western Europe that flashed past my eyes. The solemnity and unquestioning belief of the crusaders, the inquisitionist’s.

Swords and crucifixes. Horror-show tortures scenes carved in stone. These things take me out of myself. Time somehow makes the violence of the past more acceptable. But as a boxer, violence was my day job. After a fight, when the blood was still fresh on my gloves, and my own face was battered and bruised, eyes swollen, lip busted, people would often ask: “How do you find something so horrific, so beautiful...?”

This maybe comes down to what your idea of beauty is. Where do you find beauty and what makes you think something is beautiful in the first place?

Art and boxing seem to be fairly happy bedfellows. This goes double, when it comes to the business side of art. The trading, the money, the glamour and the win or lose mentality. Think about Jean-Michel Basquiat portraits of boxers. The image of the boxer is that of the isolated individual, literally using their body as a means of survival. In boxing there are no ties, no extra time, everything is decided in those minutes, full of sweat, sometimes blood, violent punches, insults and applause, falls and ascents,

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strategies and impulses. One difference between art and boxing however is that in art, nobody can ever be certain who the winner is. The great art of today may be seen as junk two hundred years from now.

So when I make art, I make it for now and also for the future. Boxing helped my work in many ways. It gave me discipline, self assurance and importantly, the confidence to fail. When I fail, I get back up and try again. I try to fail better.

I’ve always been scared of dying. I always maybe knew in my heart that boxing would one day be taken away from me. And so it was. During the rigorous and strict medical examinations before a big international tournament in which I was supposed to participate, my illness was discovered and I was disqualified. They told me I was unfit to fight. So I was marked as not eligible to practice in the sport that had saved me, to whom I had given so much and that had given so much back in return. My dreams, my aspirations, my outlet, the years of hard training in the gym, the beatings taken and given, all blocked by a red stamp from the sports bureaucracy. Being diabetic constitutes as an “aggravated risk” to the already normal risks involved in an extreme sport such as boxing. Every punch I received lowered my blood pressure and I have low blood sugar, so I always had to be stronger and aware of the risk.

Now I can no longer box professionally I focus on the art that I make in the studio. The art that goes into galleries. Creativity is now my creative outlet. The patterns of my hands when I paint, the importance of artist breath, the ideaof spectacle. Survival. I’ve taken these things from the ring into the studio. Making art now is a mythological dance. Colour and form are the tools of my iconoclasm. Abstract patterns and fragments from the world around me. The frames of my work are the work, in the same way the rope of the boxing ring is part of the ring. I’m still in ore of the masters from history. Both the history of art and the history of boxing. In art history my heroes are Fontana, Piero Manzoni and Jackson Pollock.

These are artists who did not distinguish between what they made in the studio and the life they lived outside of it. They played with materiality, they stripped the world back to its elements. In the history of boxing, Sugar Ray Robinson is my all time boxing hero. It was the grace and elegance with which he moved that attracts me to him. The story of Sugar Ray’s fight with Jimmy Doyle has also haunted me for years.

On Saturday 21st of June 1947, Sugar Ray Robinson had a dream, nightmare, premonition, whatever you want to call it, that he would fight and kill the boxer Jimmy Doyle. Robinson and Doyle were due to fight on the 25th in Cleveland. After the dream however, Sugar Ray tried to have the fight cancelled.

There was big money at stake, and the promoters were keen for the fight to go ahead. They called a priest to reassure Robinson that all would be fine and the fight went ahead as planned.In the 8th round Robinson knocked Doyle out and won the bout with a TKO. Doyle however, never got up. He was taken to a nearby hospital where he was treated for a blood clot in the brain and later died of a cerebral hemorrhage. I don’t remember when I first heard that story, everyone in boxing knows it, but it stays with me. No matter how strange or unusual they seem, I never ignore my dreams. Maybe the last thing I want to say, and I know it might sound crazy, but the thing which connects boxing and art for me, in the end is love. You make art to be loved, and believe it or not, when you box, you do it also to be loved.

Cedar Lewisohn 2015 *This text is fiction. It uses elements from the life and art of Omar Hassan as inspiration but should not be read as fact.

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by Dr. Diego Giolitti and Ulia Rabko Omar Hassan was born in 1987 in Milan, Italy, to an Italian mother and an Egyptian father. His best friend, a prolific graffiti artist, encouraged a 15-year-old Omar to join him in experimenting on the walls of his native city. Hassan later witnessed his best friend fall to his death in one of Milan’s underground tunnels.

The tragedy proved a formative event for Hassan. The artist felt compelled to explore various paths, experimenting with a Glove Save the Queen 2014, Mixed media significant talent for boxing and fearless creative risks. However, 25 x 17 cm Ottavio Tazzi Hassan was forced to abandon his love of boxing and the lure of 2014, Mixed media 25 x 17 cm competitive sport when a diagnosis of diabetes was discovered disqualifying him from professional boxing on the grounds of health and safety. Being unable to fully explore this passion, Hassan returned to his other love; investing all his energy into his artistic practice.

As a monument to this important time in his life, the exhibition includes ten paintings produced through the artist’s new boxing-inspired technique; a series called Breaking Through. The creation of these paintings involved Hassan dipping his boxing gloves into an array of colourful paint pots and punching onto large white canvases, in a very physical display of strength, anger and cathartic energy.

The Breaking Through series is a beautifully pure and raw insight into how the artist channels his energy and portrays his story into a work of art: the street and fine artist, the boxer and the young man living with diabetes.

Breaking Through #2 2014, Mixed media 200 x 220 cm

Also part of the exhibition is the #Injections series, a direct reference to Hassan’s daily insulin shots. These points of light represent the artist’s positive outlook in bursts of bright colour on canvas. There is great joy in Omar Hassan’s creations, glorious proof of his determination to “break through” the struggles of life.

Blue Stars 2015, Mixed media 113 x 83 cm

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The spray-canned ‘dots’ reflect the immediacy of street art culture, where speed, with visual impact, is so important. The colourful canvases are framed in a style that is evocative of 16th and 18th century old masters; Hassan changes the function of the frames by painting over them, creating a perfect fusion that transcends both fine art and street art in the process.

Hassan continually references his formal education at the Academy of Arts of Brera. A fine example of this is Hassan’s Venere al Quadro (2011). The piece involves a smaller version of a Venus de Milo statue, covered in his signature spray-painted dots, displayed just in front of a canvas sprayed with the same colours. The result is an optical illusion; with the three-dimensional sculpture vanishing into the canvas.

To Omar Hassan, art is the only true mark a person can leave on the world. It is something that, whilst open to different interpretations and viewpoints, has come directly from a person’s will and desire to express and communicate. It would be fair to say that this young artist, with his varied and engaging art practice, has already made a considerable impression at an early stage in his career, and it is with nothing but great anticipation that we wait to see where such a creative drive will take him next.

Venere al Quadro 2011, Mixed media and plaster sculpture Sculpture height 90 cm Canvas 113 x 132 cm

Dr. Diego Giolitti and Ulia Rabko

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Breaking Through

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Breaking Through #1 2014, Mixed media 200 x 180 cm 12

Breaking Through #1 Detail 13

Breaking Through #2 2014, Mixed media 200 x 220 cm 14

Right: Breaking Through #2 Detail

Sunrise Detail 2015, Mixed media 170 x 142 cm

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Breaking Through #3 Detail

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Breaking Through #3 2014, Mixed media 200 x 190 cm Courtesy of private collection, London, UK 17

Breaking Through #4 2014, Mixed media 250 x 200 cm 18

Right: Breaking Through #4 Detail

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Breaking Through #5 2014, Mixed media 140 x 200 cm 20

Right: Breaking Through #5 Detail

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Left: Breaking Through #6 Detail

Breaking Through #6 2015, Mixed media 200 x 225 cm 23

Breaking Through #7 2015, Mixed media 200 x 225 cm 24

Breaking Through #7 Detail 25

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Left: Breaking Through #8 Detail

Breaking Through #8 2015, Mixed media 200 x 160 cm 27

Breaking Through #9 2015, Mixed media 160 x 200 cm Courtesy of private collection, Principality of Monaco 28

Right: Breaking Through #9 Detail

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Breaking Through #10 2015, Mixed media 132 x 200 cm 30

Breaking Through #10 Detail 31

Caps

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Cap 480 2015, Mixed media 52 x 52 cm 34

Cap 480 Detail 35

Cap 608 2014, Mixed media 82 x 42 cm 36

Cap 608 Detail 37

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Left: Cap 589 Detail

Cap 589 2015, Mixed media 42 x 82 cm 39

Cap 980 2015, Mixed media 73 x 73 cm 40

Cap 980 Detail 41

Cap 608 2015, Mixed media 82 x 42 cm 42

Cap 608 Detail 43

Cap 840 Detail

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Cap 840 2015, Mixed media 52 x 91 cm Courtesy of private collection, Milan, Italy 45

Cap 1015 2015, Mixed media 75 x 75 cm Courtesy of private collection, London, UK 46

Cap 1015 Detail 47

Cap 1320 2014, Mixed media 80 x 80 cm Courtesy of private collection, London, UK 48

Right: Cap 1320 Detail

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Cap 1320 2014, Mixed media 80 x 80 cm Courtesy of private collection, London, UK 50

Cap 1320 Detail 51

Cap 2632 Detail

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Cap 2632 2015, Mixed media 121 x 121 cm 53

Injections

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Over Myself 2014, Mixed media 163 x 133 cm Courtesy of private collection, Como, Italy 56

Over Myself Detail 57

One on One 2014, Mixed media 200 x 115 cm Courtesy of private collection, Sydney, Australia 58

One on One Detail 59

Blue Moon Detail

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Right: Blue Moon 2014, Mixed media 133 x 163 cm

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Soul 2015, Mixed media 172 x 142 cm 62

Soul Detail 63

Black Soul 2015, Mixed media 167 x 137 cm 64

Black Soul Detail 65

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Left, Acid Detail

Acid 2015, Mixed media 170 x 140 cm 67

Black Light 2015, Mixed media 193 x 133 cm 68

Black Light Detail 69

Blue Stars 2015, Mixed media 113 x 83 cm 70

Blue Stars Detail 71

Black Stars Detail

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Black Stars 2015, Mixed media 133 x 103 cm 73

Cyclamen 2015, Mixed media 178 x 148 cm 74

Cyclamen Detail 75

Egypt 2015, Mixed media 200 x 180 cm 76

Egypt Detail 77

Egypt Detail

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Egypt 2015, Mixed media 200 x 180 cm 79

Life is… Brown 2015, Mixed media 97 x 77 cm 80

Life is… Brown Detail 81

Obi Green 2015, Mixed media 97 x 77 cm 82

Obi Green Detail 83

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Left Light Blue Detail

Light Blue 2015, Mixed media 193 x 133 cm

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Luce Vera 2015, Mixed media 143 x 113 cm 86

Luce Vera Detail 87

Luce 2015, Mixed media 143 x 103 cm 88

Luce Detail 89

Night Detail

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Night 2015, Mixed media 213 x 163 cm 91

Purple Sky 2015, Mixed media 133 x 103 cm 92

Purple Sky Detail 93

Plunge 2015, Mixed media 163 x 133 cm 94

Plunge Detail 95

Red Light Detail

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Red Light 2015, Mixed media 193 x 133 cm 97

Red Sky 2015, Mixed media 213 x 163 cm 98

Right: Red Sky Detail

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Purple Stars 2015, Mixed media 113 x 83 cm 100

Purple Stars Detail 101

Five Injections of Life 2015, Mixed media 213 x 163 cm Courtesy of private collection, Milan, Italy 102

Five Injections of Life Detail 103

Sea 2015, Mixed media 213 x 163 cm 104

Sea Detail 105

Self Portrait 2015, Mixed media 213 x 163 cm 106

Self Portrait Detail 107

Injections Green Detail

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Right: Injections Green 2015, Mixed media 163 x 133 cm

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Four Injections of Colour 2015, Mixed media 193 x 133 cm 110

Right: Four Injections of Colour Detail

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Over Myself White 2014, Mixed media 163 x 133 cm 112

Over Myself White Detail 113

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Left: Four Injections of Light 2015, Mixed media 193 x 133 cm

Four Injections of Light Detail 115

Injections Light Black 2015, Mixed media 163 x 133 cm Courtesy of private collection, London, UK 116

Right, Injections Light Black Detail

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Eight Injections of Color Detail

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Right: Eight Injections of Color 2015, Mixed media 113 x 93 cm Courtesy of Lara Rosenbaum, FL, USA

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Left: Ten Injections of Light 2015, Mixed media 213 x 163 cm

Ten Injections of Light Detail 121

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Left: Five Injections of Colour, Detail

Five Injections of Colour 2015, Mixed media 213 x 163 cm 123

Eleven Injections of Colour 2015, Mixed media 163 x 133 cm 124

Eleven Injections of Colour Detail 125

Five Injections of Stars 2015, Mixed media 113 x 93 cm 126

Five Injections of Stars Detail 127

Light Detail

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Light 2015, Mixed media 150 x 150 cm 129

Six Injections of Stars 2015, Mixed media 113 x 113 cm 130

Six Injections of Stars Detail 131

Verso il Sole 2015, Mixed media 180 x 210 cm 132

Verso il Sole Detail 133

Sunrise Detail

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Sunrise 2015, Mixed media 170 x 142 cm 135

Sunset 2015, Mixed media 170 x 140 cm 136

Sunset Detail

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The Consequences 2014, Mixed media 200 x 150 cm 138

Right: The Consequences Detail

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Cross Paths 2014, Mixed media 200 x 150 cm 140

Right: Cross Paths Detail

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Hagakure (X, 5) 2015, Mixed media 83 x 63 cm 142

Hagakure (X, 5) Detail 143

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1. Hagakure (I, 44) 2. Hagakure (II, 85) 2014, Mixed media 2014, Mixed media 83 x 63 cm 83 x 63 cm Courtesy of private collection, Principality of Monaco

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3. Hagakure (II, 31) 2014, Mixed media

83 x 63 cm

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2. 3x2 1. From Side to Side 2014, Mixed media 2014, Mixed media 83 x 63 cm 83 x 63 cm Courtesy of private collection, Milan, Italy

3. Up to Far so Good 2014, Mixed media 83 x 63 cm 145

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1. Seven Injections of Stars 2014, Mixed media 53 x 43 cm

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2. Nine Injections of Stars 3. Eight Injections of Stars 4. Ten Injections of Stars 2014, Mixed media 2014, Mixed media 2014, Mixed media 53 x 43 cm 53 x 43 cm 53 x 43 cm

5. Six Injections of Stars 2014, Mixed media 53 x 43 cm Courtesy of private collection, London, UK

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1. Twelve Injections of Life 2014, Mixed media 53 x 43 cm

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2. New Bond Street 3. Four Injections of Life 2014, Mixed Media 2014, Mixed media 53 x 43 cm 53 x 43 cm Courtesy of private collection, London, UK

4. Eleven Injections of Life 2014, Mixed media 53 x 43 cm

5. Ten Injections of Life 2014, Mixed media 53 x 43 cm 147

Cesar 2014, Mixed media 66 x 87 cm 148

Village 2014, Mixed media 78 x 137 cm Courtesy of private collection, London, UK 149

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3D Works

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Glove Save the Queen 2014, Mixed media 25 x 17 cm Ottavio Tazzi 2014, Mixed media 25 x 17 cm Courtesy of private collection, London, UK

Boxing Gloves 2014, Mixed media 25 x 17 cm 153

Uppercut, Front 2015, Mixed media 25 x 17 cm 154

Uppercut, Back 2015, Mixed media 25 x 17 cm 155

Jab Jab Jab !!!, Front 2015, Mixed media 25 x 17 cm 156

Jab Jab Jab !!!, Back 2015, Mixed media 25 x 17 cm 157

Hookmaker, Front 2015, Mixed media 25 x 17 cm 158

Hookmaker, Back 2015, Mixed media 25 x 17 cm 159

One Two, One Two !!

2015, Mixed media 25 x 17 cm 160

One Two, One Two !!

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Left: Drum and Punch Detail

Drum and Punch 2015, Mixed media on punch bag 120 x 35 x 35 cm 163

Nike White on White 2013, Mixed media and plaster sculpture Sculpture height 50 cm Canvas 113 x 93 cm 164

Éclaboussure... Nike 2011, Mixed media on plaster sculpture Sculpture height 96 cm Courtesy of private collection, London, UK 165

Venere al Quadro Detail

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Venere al Quadro 2011, Mixed media and plaster sculpture Sculpture height 90 cm Canvas 113 x 132 cm 167

Venere Nera 2011, Mixed media on plaster sculpture 78 x 20 x 35 cm 168

Testa di Venere 2013, Mixed media on plaster sculpture 55 x 47 x 35 cm 169

Cap in the Street Broke 2014, Mixed media 62 x 82 cm 170

Cap in the Street 2014, Mixed media 62 x 82 cm 171

L’Origine 2014, Mixed media 73 x 62 cm 172

Spray in the street 2014, Mixed media 52 x 52 cm 173

London Street 2014, Mixed media 71 x 60 cm 174

White London 2014, Mixed media 71 x 60 cm 175

ufOH!, Front 2015, Spray paint on carbon armchair 110 x 170 cm 176

ufOH!, Back 2015, Spray paint on carbon armchair 110 x 170 cm 177

Appendix

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Biography 1987

Born in Milan, Italy

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First solo exhibition in Japan

2010

Graduated from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan, Italy

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Participated in the 54th Venice Biennale, exhibiting in the Italian Pavilion

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City of Milan offers Omar Hassan his first public commission

2013

Features in the definitive Street Art London edition by Frank Steam156 Malt

MAR, Ravenna Museum of Art, acquires a work of art by Omar Hassan for their 2014 permanent collection

Omar Hassan continues to live and work in Milan, Italy.

Solo Exhibitions 2014 L’essenziale è Invisibile agli Occhi, Montesegale Castle, Pavia, Italy 2012 Jab, Jab!!, Colossi Arte Contemporanea, Brescia, Italy 2011 H.O.2, Fabbrica Eos, Milano, Italy 2009 Gaijin, Musashy Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Collections and Museums Puzzle Public, Bagolino , Brescia, Italy Rimembranze di Conte Rosso, Milan, Italy Dolce Far Nulla, Montesegale, Pavia, Italy One Wall, Palazzo della Regione, Milan, Italy Borgio Verezzi in Wonderland, Borgio Verezzi, Italy Columns of San Donato Milanese Station, San Donato Milanese, Italy Mille Miglia of Colors, Mille Miglia Museum, Brescia, Italy Aldo Galli Fine Art Academy, Como, Italy Color Cube, Brick Lane, London, UK MAR Museum of Contemporary Art, Ravenna, Italy

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Group Exhibitions 2015 Group Exhibition, Rosenbaum Contemporary, Bal Harbour, Florida, USA ART STAGE, Singapore, Singapore ArtWynwood Miami, Rosenbaum Contemporary, Miami, Florida, USA 2014 Eccentrico Musivo, MAR, Museum of Contemporary Art, Ravenna, Italy Qualcosa d’Impatto, Castello di Gambolò, Pavia, Italy 2013 Sedie d’Artista, SIM-PATIA, Triennale di Milano Crystal Le Club, Crystal Palace, Brescia, Italy ArtVerona, Colossi Arte Contemporanea, Verona, Italy Bubble, Terrazza Aperol, Duomo Square, Milan, Italy Orientalmente, Palazzo Te, Mantova, Italy Refreshing Art, Art Factory, Catania, Italy Bologna Arte Fiera, Colossi Arte Contemporanea, Bologna, Italy 2012 Bergamo Arte Fiera, Colossi Arte Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy ArtVerona, Colossi Arte Contemporanea, Verona, Italy Restart, Fabbrica Eos, Milan, Italy Roma Contemporary, Fabbrica Eos, Rome, Italy Arte Accessibile, Sole24ore, Milan, Italy Robert F. Kennedy Foundation of Europe, Hangar Bicocca, Milan, Italy 2011 54th Venice Biennale, Italian Pavilion, Venice, Italy Una Mano per Ail, il giusto mezzo, Charity auction at Pomodoro Foundation, Christie’s, Milan, Italy AAM, Sole24Ore, Milan, Italy 2010 Creativeworld Fair, Frankfurt, Germany Scrittura Visiva, Galleria Marelia, Bergamo, Italy ArtVerona, FabbricaEos, Verona, Italy M(A)mbiguity, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy Kilometro 20+1, Torrione Farnese, Castell’Arquato, Italy Il MA, Katy House Gallery, Monfalcone, Italy In-Tortona, Spazio Concept, Milan, Italy 2009 Tokio Flash, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy 26 for Tibet, Tsetan Sonam, Milan, Italy 26 for Tibet, Centro Guarinoni, Fortunago, Italy Streets without Wall, Misericordia Museum, Florence, Italy Attuttotondo, Villa Orsini, Scorzè, Venice, Italy Incursioni, Associazione Culturale Artificio, Milan, Italy Una Mano per l’AIL, Palazzo Clerici, Milan, Italy

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