fathi hassan edited by rose issa
contents 4-7 FATHI HASSAN: Signs of our times 8-31 questioning Letters ISBN: 978-0-9559515-6-5 First published by Beyond Art Production in 2010 Copyright © All images, Fathi Hassan, 2010 Copyright © All text, Rose Issa, 2010 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. A full cip record for this book is available from the British Library Design: normal industries Copy: Katia Hadidian Production: Francesca Ricci
32-53 MOTHER Africa: the Sto male series 54-69 questioning Honour: the Haram Aleikum series 70-71 in conversation with fathi hassan 72-77 biography 78-79 Bibliography
Rose Issa Projects would like to thank Morag McCarron, Alan Kirwan and Daniel Robinson at Leighton House Museum, Moez Jamal, Juliet Cestar, Stephen Deuchar at the Art Fund, The British Museum, The Victoria & Albert Museum, Randa Armanazi and the Beirut Exhibition Center, and the Farjam Foundation.
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contents 4-7 FATHI HASSAN: Signs of our times 8-31 questioning Letters ISBN: 978-0-9559515-6-5 First published by Beyond Art Production in 2010 Copyright © All images, Fathi Hassan, 2010 Copyright © All text, Rose Issa, 2010 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. A full cip record for this book is available from the British Library Design: normal industries Copy: Katia Hadidian Production: Francesca Ricci
32-53 MOTHER Africa: the Sto male series 54-69 questioning Honour: the Haram Aleikum series 70-71 in conversation with fathi hassan 72-77 biography 78-79 Bibliography
Rose Issa Projects would like to thank Morag McCarron, Alan Kirwan and Daniel Robinson at Leighton House Museum, Moez Jamal, Juliet Cestar, Stephen Deuchar at the Art Fund, The British Museum, The Victoria & Albert Museum, Randa Armanazi and the Beirut Exhibition Center, and the Farjam Foundation.
269 Kensington High Street, London W8 6NA (www.roseissa.com)
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Fathi Hassan: Signs of our Times I first encountered Fathi Hassan’s work at the Venice Biennale in 1988. I was instinctively drawn to it by recognising
that writing plays in his work. In exploring the ornamental possibilities of the letters, he is careful not to emphasise
some abstract calligraphical symbols. I was wonderfully surprised to discover an Arab artist in the main exhibition
the meaning of words, for words may restrict his intentions or our imagination. Sometimes certain words or letters
pavilion, and also by the quality of the work itself, with its large, abstract calligraphical painting on canvas and walls. At
escape and appear on a sea of abstracted letters, such as “S” for Soal (Question) or Huwa (He, the Almighty). In
that time, of all the Arab countries, only Egypt had a national pavilion and mostly exhibited artists approved by the regime.
his paintings he deconstructs the writing, reduces it to its most elementary form, isolates it, and frees its shape from old conventions into a modern artistic expression. The letter, word, line or text ceases to convey meaning and
In the 1980s, before Middle Eastern and African art was promoted as widely as it is today, very few figures in the
is transformed into a poetic image.
art world or the general public were aware of the important aesthetic movements and trends that had taken place since the independence movements in these regions. From the late 1950s onwards, some of the best artists used
Fathi Hassan takes phonemes – the smallest units of sound in a word – and covers most of the paper or canvas
signs, traces and calligraphy to express an aesthetic very different from the Western world. In Iran, the Saqqakhaneh
with them, turning them into curves, shaping them into waves, and weaving them into a melodic and rhythmic
(‘Spiritual Pop’) school was initiated by artists such as Charles Hossein Zenderoudi, Mansour Qandriz, Jazeh Tabatabai
image, transforming the surface into a visual incantation. At other times, such as in his most recent works, he
and Parviz Tanavoli, and was followed in Arab countries by artists including Shaker Hassan Al Said in Iraq – the Antoni
leaves a great deal of empty space on the surface, so the eye reflects on more readable words, making his voice
Tapies of the Middle East. In Tunisia, Nja Mahdaoui became interested in the morphology of letters, while in Algeria
loud and clear, rather than subtly suggesting. When he repeatedly paints the phrase Haram Aleikum (“Shame on
Rachid Koraichi incorporated Berber signs in his reverse writing. Other artists found their style outside their country
you”), he also means in his soft, generous and humorous way, “Why do you do that?”, “Why do you say that?”
of origin, in cities like Paris or London. For example, in the 1980s Ali Omar Ermes, a Libyan poet based in London,
It is not a condemnation but an interrogation, a question seeking understanding. When he paints the lyrics of
painted poetry and letters, while Ahmad Moustafa completely changed the figurative abstract style he had learned in
the Lebanese singer Julia Boutros’ songs, such as Wayn el malayeen (“Where are the Millions?” – of Arabs, of
his hometown, Alexandria, to create classical calligraphical works incorporating Koranic texts in a highly elaborate,
money, of voices), he is protesting against injustice, double standards, war and invasion. Similarly the lyrics for
modern and computerised style. Yet although I knew these artists personally, I had yet to discover Fathi Hassan!
Sharaf el Arabi Wayn? (“Where is the Arab Honour?”) echo his own questions about what the most basic notions of “Arabness” or “Arabdom” are: Sharaf (“Honour”) and Karama (“Generosity”). In Wa sara al Fajr Qurub (“Dawn has
It was before the Google era and few people could tell me his whereabouts. His name itself was intriguing and
become Dusk”) he expresses what much of the Arab public feels: a time of grief, desolation, and frustration. These
confusing, as at that time only the controversial Egyptian architect Hassan Fathi (1900-1989) was widely known. I
works question our times and the wisdom of letting daily humiliations, disrespect and exploitation go unopposed.
did not yet know that Fathi Hassan was a young artist from Nubia, who had lived and worked in Egypt and Iraq, and
The Arabic language here serves as a vehicle for reflecting on questions of history, identity, and individual life choices.
had lived in voluntary ‘exile’ in Italy since he was twenty years old. I did not yet know of his wonderful and solidly
Scattered here and there, he also paints Arabic, Indian or Latin numbers that refer to important dates in his life: his
Arabic cultural background, and that he had such a great knowledge of world cinema, and Arab, African and world
birthday, the day he arrived in Italy, the day his father died, the day his son was born, and more mysterious dates,
music and poetry. When we finally met a few years later, he was already a big name on the Italian art circuit, but
such as rendez-vous with love, days of loss or freedom.
little known by other Arab countries or the rest of Europe. Fathi Hassan is as gentle as he looks, yet he is a rebel with many causes. He has painted many self-portraits, one
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Following his work from London, I noticed how Fathi Hassan happily mixes his Nubian Arab-African background with
of which represents his belonging to two cultures, La Divisione (1991): the Arab-African and the white-Western.
current western concepts and techniques. His cultural background is often evident, especially in the dominant role
For more than 30 years, he has chosen to live in Italy, with all its rich aesthetic heritage, hence the influence on
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Fathi Hassan: Signs of our Times I first encountered Fathi Hassan’s work at the Venice Biennale in 1988. I was instinctively drawn to it by recognising
that writing plays in his work. In exploring the ornamental possibilities of the letters, he is careful not to emphasise
some abstract calligraphical symbols. I was wonderfully surprised to discover an Arab artist in the main exhibition
the meaning of words, for words may restrict his intentions or our imagination. Sometimes certain words or letters
pavilion, and also by the quality of the work itself, with its large, abstract calligraphical painting on canvas and walls. At
escape and appear on a sea of abstracted letters, such as “S” for Soal (Question) or Huwa (He, the Almighty). In
that time, of all the Arab countries, only Egypt had a national pavilion and mostly exhibited artists approved by the regime.
his paintings he deconstructs the writing, reduces it to its most elementary form, isolates it, and frees its shape from old conventions into a modern artistic expression. The letter, word, line or text ceases to convey meaning and
In the 1980s, before Middle Eastern and African art was promoted as widely as it is today, very few figures in the
is transformed into a poetic image.
art world or the general public were aware of the important aesthetic movements and trends that had taken place since the independence movements in these regions. From the late 1950s onwards, some of the best artists used
Fathi Hassan takes phonemes – the smallest units of sound in a word – and covers most of the paper or canvas
signs, traces and calligraphy to express an aesthetic very different from the Western world. In Iran, the Saqqakhaneh
with them, turning them into curves, shaping them into waves, and weaving them into a melodic and rhythmic
(‘Spiritual Pop’) school was initiated by artists such as Charles Hossein Zenderoudi, Mansour Qandriz, Jazeh Tabatabai
image, transforming the surface into a visual incantation. At other times, such as in his most recent works, he
and Parviz Tanavoli, and was followed in Arab countries by artists including Shaker Hassan Al Said in Iraq – the Antoni
leaves a great deal of empty space on the surface, so the eye reflects on more readable words, making his voice
Tapies of the Middle East. In Tunisia, Nja Mahdaoui became interested in the morphology of letters, while in Algeria
loud and clear, rather than subtly suggesting. When he repeatedly paints the phrase Haram Aleikum (“Shame on
Rachid Koraichi incorporated Berber signs in his reverse writing. Other artists found their style outside their country
you”), he also means in his soft, generous and humorous way, “Why do you do that?”, “Why do you say that?”
of origin, in cities like Paris or London. For example, in the 1980s Ali Omar Ermes, a Libyan poet based in London,
It is not a condemnation but an interrogation, a question seeking understanding. When he paints the lyrics of
painted poetry and letters, while Ahmad Moustafa completely changed the figurative abstract style he had learned in
the Lebanese singer Julia Boutros’ songs, such as Wayn el malayeen (“Where are the Millions?” – of Arabs, of
his hometown, Alexandria, to create classical calligraphical works incorporating Koranic texts in a highly elaborate,
money, of voices), he is protesting against injustice, double standards, war and invasion. Similarly the lyrics for
modern and computerised style. Yet although I knew these artists personally, I had yet to discover Fathi Hassan!
Sharaf el Arabi Wayn? (“Where is the Arab Honour?”) echo his own questions about what the most basic notions of “Arabness” or “Arabdom” are: Sharaf (“Honour”) and Karama (“Generosity”). In Wa sara al Fajr Qurub (“Dawn has
It was before the Google era and few people could tell me his whereabouts. His name itself was intriguing and
become Dusk”) he expresses what much of the Arab public feels: a time of grief, desolation, and frustration. These
confusing, as at that time only the controversial Egyptian architect Hassan Fathi (1900-1989) was widely known. I
works question our times and the wisdom of letting daily humiliations, disrespect and exploitation go unopposed.
did not yet know that Fathi Hassan was a young artist from Nubia, who had lived and worked in Egypt and Iraq, and
The Arabic language here serves as a vehicle for reflecting on questions of history, identity, and individual life choices.
had lived in voluntary ‘exile’ in Italy since he was twenty years old. I did not yet know of his wonderful and solidly
Scattered here and there, he also paints Arabic, Indian or Latin numbers that refer to important dates in his life: his
Arabic cultural background, and that he had such a great knowledge of world cinema, and Arab, African and world
birthday, the day he arrived in Italy, the day his father died, the day his son was born, and more mysterious dates,
music and poetry. When we finally met a few years later, he was already a big name on the Italian art circuit, but
such as rendez-vous with love, days of loss or freedom.
little known by other Arab countries or the rest of Europe. Fathi Hassan is as gentle as he looks, yet he is a rebel with many causes. He has painted many self-portraits, one
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Following his work from London, I noticed how Fathi Hassan happily mixes his Nubian Arab-African background with
of which represents his belonging to two cultures, La Divisione (1991): the Arab-African and the white-Western.
current western concepts and techniques. His cultural background is often evident, especially in the dominant role
For more than 30 years, he has chosen to live in Italy, with all its rich aesthetic heritage, hence the influence on
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his work of post-war Italian artists such as Giuseppe Capogrossi, Gastone Novelli, the Arte Povera movement, and Alighiero Boetti, whom he knew personally. His sources of inspiration are varied however, for he often pays homage to other Arab, African, American or Italian artists in his work and openly admits his admiration for them. He is also attracted by Japanese haiku (which he reads translated into Italian), the lyrics of the Egyptian singer Abdel Halim Hafez, and Julia Boutros’s patriotic songs. His technique is equally varied, encompassing paint, sand, textiles, collage, photography and mixed-media on canvas, board or paper, or as murals, photographs and performances. For many artists in self-imposed exile, it was regional cultural politics – with its heavy bureaucratic apparatus that discourages independent artistic expression – that led them to stay abroad. Today, the Middle Eastern art scene is capturing the world’s attention and auction houses are becoming increasingly active in the region, especially in the Gulf, while many curators are out looking for undiscovered talents. Yet despite this “gold rush”, many talented and established artists remain unknown, inside and outside the region. In the last ten years, as in contemporary Arabic literature, artists with links to the Arab world have started to turn away from European models towards the oral tradition, popular culture, and increasingly contemporary politics. Whether for his country or himself, Fathi Hassan’s career will shape a legacy. His work emphasises his trans-nationalism, his communal identity, and his cultural hybridity. What is captured in his more recent work is a sense of remembrance, a way to transcend divisions. He often separates the written from the spoken word (his Nubian culture is mostly oral), mixing texts with graphics, the aural with the visual, the formal with the informal, the fictional with the factual. This publication illustrates a very small portion of Fathi Hassan’s output: his work has featured in hundreds of exhibitions and publications; a lifetime of performances, installations, and “greatest hits”, including colourful black Madonnas, African elephants walking on tightropes, gazelles running wild, and flying camels. Consider it an introduction to Fathi Hassan, who is so productive, generous and kind, that one book alone cannot reflect his very diverse influences and the homage he pays to his fellow artists and countrymen around the world. Rose Issa London 2010
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Site-specific installation at the Beirut Exhibition Center, “Arabicity” group show, September-October 2010
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his work of post-war Italian artists such as Giuseppe Capogrossi, Gastone Novelli, the Arte Povera movement, and Alighiero Boetti, whom he knew personally. His sources of inspiration are varied however, for he often pays homage to other Arab, African, American or Italian artists in his work and openly admits his admiration for them. He is also attracted by Japanese haiku (which he reads translated into Italian), the lyrics of the Egyptian singer Abdel Halim Hafez, and Julia Boutros’s patriotic songs. His technique is equally varied, encompassing paint, sand, textiles, collage, photography and mixed-media on canvas, board or paper, or as murals, photographs and performances. For many artists in self-imposed exile, it was regional cultural politics – with its heavy bureaucratic apparatus that discourages independent artistic expression – that led them to stay abroad. Today, the Middle Eastern art scene is capturing the world’s attention and auction houses are becoming increasingly active in the region, especially in the Gulf, while many curators are out looking for undiscovered talents. Yet despite this “gold rush”, many talented and established artists remain unknown, inside and outside the region. In the last ten years, as in contemporary Arabic literature, artists with links to the Arab world have started to turn away from European models towards the oral tradition, popular culture, and increasingly contemporary politics. Whether for his country or himself, Fathi Hassan’s career will shape a legacy. His work emphasises his trans-nationalism, his communal identity, and his cultural hybridity. What is captured in his more recent work is a sense of remembrance, a way to transcend divisions. He often separates the written from the spoken word (his Nubian culture is mostly oral), mixing texts with graphics, the aural with the visual, the formal with the informal, the fictional with the factual. This publication illustrates a very small portion of Fathi Hassan’s output: his work has featured in hundreds of exhibitions and publications; a lifetime of performances, installations, and “greatest hits”, including colourful black Madonnas, African elephants walking on tightropes, gazelles running wild, and flying camels. Consider it an introduction to Fathi Hassan, who is so productive, generous and kind, that one book alone cannot reflect his very diverse influences and the homage he pays to his fellow artists and countrymen around the world. Rose Issa London 2010
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Site-specific installation at the Beirut Exhibition Center, “Arabicity” group show, September-October 2010
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Questioning Letters
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Picture title, medium, 00 x 00 cm, 2000
Picture title, medium, 00 x 00 cm, 2000
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Questioning Letters
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Picture title, medium, 00 x 00 cm, 2000
Picture title, medium, 00 x 00 cm, 2000
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The Offering, photograph, 44.5 x 30.5 cm, 2007
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The Offering, photograph, 44.5 x 30.5 cm, 2007
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The Light Man’s Historical Footstep, photograph, 44.5 x 30.5 cm, 1985
Glance Towards the Unknown, photograph, 44.5 x 30.5 cm, 1985
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The Light Man’s Historical Footstep, photograph, 44.5 x 30.5 cm, 1985
Glance Towards the Unknown, photograph, 44.5 x 30.5 cm, 1985
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From the series Letters, mixed media on paper, 39 x 30 cm, 1990-1993. All works individually signed and dated
From the series Letters, mixed media on paper, 39 x 30 cm, 1985-1992. All works individually signed and dated
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From the series Letters, mixed media on paper, 39 x 30 cm, 1990-1993. All works individually signed and dated
From the series Letters, mixed media on paper, 39 x 30 cm, 1985-1992. All works individually signed and dated
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This page and opposite, from the series Letters, mixed media on paper, 37 x 30 cm, 1993
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This page and opposite, from the series Letters, mixed media on paper, 37 x 30 cm, 1993
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From the series Letters, mixed media on card, 37 x 30 cm, 1985
From the series Letters, mixed media on card, 32 x 27 cm, 1985
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From the series Letters, mixed media on card, 37 x 30 cm, 1985
From the series Letters, mixed media on card, 32 x 27 cm, 1985
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From the series Letters, mixed media on card, 32 x 27 cm, 1995
From the series Letters, left to right: Letter S, Letter H, Letter Sad, acrylic on canvas, 28.5 x 22 cm, 1982
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From the series Letters, mixed media on card, 32 x 27 cm, 1995
From the series Letters, left to right: Letter S, Letter H, Letter Sad, acrylic on canvas, 28.5 x 22 cm, 1982
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From the series Haram Aleikum, left to right: The Black Man, Him, Love and Separation, mixed media on paper, 49 x 38 cm, 2009
From the series Haram Aleikum, left to right: Untitled, Him, A Part of Life, mixed media on paper, 49 x 38 cm, 2009
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From the series Haram Aleikum, left to right: The Black Man, Him, Love and Separation, mixed media on paper, 49 x 38 cm, 2009
From the series Haram Aleikum, left to right: Untitled, Him, A Part of Life, mixed media on paper, 49 x 38 cm, 2009
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Myth 88, mixed media on paper, 200 x 150 cm, 2009
Life, mixed media on paper, 200 x 150 cm, 2009
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Myth 88, mixed media on paper, 200 x 150 cm, 2009
Life, mixed media on paper, 200 x 150 cm, 2009
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Crescent Moon, mixed media on paper, 200 x 150 cm, 2009
Eye, mixed media on paper, 150 x 200 cm, 2009
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Crescent Moon, mixed media on paper, 200 x 150 cm, 2009
Eye, mixed media on paper, 150 x 200 cm, 2009
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Bread Basket, mixed media on paper, 190 x 150 cm, 2009
White Tear, mixed media on paper, 190 x 150 cm, 2009
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Bread Basket, mixed media on paper, 190 x 150 cm, 2009
White Tear, mixed media on paper, 190 x 150 cm, 2009
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Freedom, mixed media on paper, 100 x 75 cm, 2008
Secret, mixed media on paper, 190 x 150 cm, 2009
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Freedom, mixed media on paper, 100 x 75 cm, 2008
Secret, mixed media on paper, 190 x 150 cm, 2009
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mother Africa: the Sto male series
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Picture title, medium, 00 x 00 cm, 2000
Picture title, medium, 00 x 00 cm, 2000
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mother Africa: the Sto male series
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Picture title, medium, 00 x 00 cm, 2000
Picture title, medium, 00 x 00 cm, 2000
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From the series Africa Don’t Despair, You are the Mother, oil pastel and pencil on paper, 24 x 17 cm, 1997-1998
From the series Africa Don’t Despair, You are the Mother, oil pastel and pencil on paper, 24 x 17 cm, 1997-2000
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From the series Africa Don’t Despair, You are the Mother, oil pastel and pencil on paper, 24 x 17 cm, 1997-1998
From the series Africa Don’t Despair, You are the Mother, oil pastel and pencil on paper, 24 x 17 cm, 1997-2000
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From the series Africa Don’t Despair, You are the Mother, oil pastel and pencil on paper, 17 x 24 cm, 1998
From the series Africa Don’t Despair, You are the Mother, oil pastel and pencil on paper, 17 x 24 cm, 1998-2001
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From the series Africa Don’t Despair, You are the Mother, oil pastel and pencil on paper, 17 x 24 cm, 1998
From the series Africa Don’t Despair, You are the Mother, oil pastel and pencil on paper, 17 x 24 cm, 1998-2001
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Top row: From the series Africa Don’t Despair, You are the Mother, oil pastel and pencil on paper, 24 x 17 cm, 1996-1998 Bottom row, from left: Eve, mixed media on paper, 19 x 15 cm, 1987; Red Gazelle, mixed media on paper, 20 x 15 cm, 1996; Mom’s Letter, mixed media on paper, 25 x 17 cm, 1982
A Bag of Dreams, mixed media on paper, 15 x 15 cm, 1987
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Top row: From the series Africa Don’t Despair, You are the Mother, oil pastel and pencil on paper, 24 x 17 cm, 1996-1998 Bottom row, from left: Eve, mixed media on paper, 19 x 15 cm, 1987; Red Gazelle, mixed media on paper, 20 x 15 cm, 1996; Mom’s Letter, mixed media on paper, 25 x 17 cm, 1982
A Bag of Dreams, mixed media on paper, 15 x 15 cm, 1987
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Elephant, charcoal and crayon on paper, 25 x 18 cm, 1996
Top row, from left: Don’t Kill Africa, charcoal and crayon on paper, 35 x 25 cm, 1996; Amare con Sogno, mixed media on paper, 34.5 x 27.5 cm, 2004; Deer, charcoal and crayon on paper, 25 x 18 cm, 1997 Bottom row, from left: Amare con civiltà, mixed media on paper, 34.5x27.5 cm, 2004; Camel, charcoal and crayon on paper, 25x18 cm, 1996; from the series Africa Don’t Despair, You are the Mother, oil pastel and pencil on paper, 24 x 17 cm, 1998-2001
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Elephant, charcoal and crayon on paper, 25 x 18 cm, 1996
Top row, from left: Don’t Kill Africa, charcoal and crayon on paper, 35 x 25 cm, 1996; Amare con Sogno, mixed media on paper, 34.5 x 27.5 cm, 2004; Deer, charcoal and crayon on paper, 25 x 18 cm, 1997 Bottom row, from left: Amare con civiltà, mixed media on paper, 34.5x27.5 cm, 2004; Camel, charcoal and crayon on paper, 25x18 cm, 1996; from the series Africa Don’t Despair, You are the Mother, oil pastel and pencil on paper, 24 x 17 cm, 1998-2001
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This page and opposite, Sto Male I-XII, mixed media on paper, 23 x 20 cm, 1999
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This page and opposite, Sto Male I-XII, mixed media on paper, 23 x 20 cm, 1999
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This page and opposite, Sto Male XIII-XXIV, mixed media on paper, 23 x 20 cm, 1999
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This page and opposite, Sto Male XIII-XXIV, mixed media on paper, 23 x 20 cm, 1999
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Magic Nubia, mixed media on paper, 100 x 75 cm, 2008
Nigger 27, mixed media on paper, 100 x 75 cm, 2008
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Magic Nubia, mixed media on paper, 100 x 75 cm, 2008
Nigger 27, mixed media on paper, 100 x 75 cm, 2008
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Felluca, mixed media on paper, 151 x 369 cm, 2009
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Felluca, mixed media on paper, 151 x 369 cm, 2009
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Flight, mixed media on paper, 100 x 75 cm, 2009
A Place, mixed media on paper, 100 x 75 cm, 2009
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Flight, mixed media on paper, 100 x 75 cm, 2009
A Place, mixed media on paper, 100 x 75 cm, 2009
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Haram Aleikum, mixed media on paper, 150 x 100 cm, 2010
It Weaves its Web, mixed media on paper, 150 x 100 cm, 2010
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Haram Aleikum, mixed media on paper, 150 x 100 cm, 2010
It Weaves its Web, mixed media on paper, 150 x 100 cm, 2010
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Questioning Honour: the Haram Aleikum series
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Picture title, medium, 00 x 00 cm, 2000
Picture title, medium, 00 x 00 cm, 2000
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Questioning Honour: the Haram Aleikum series
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Picture title, medium, 00 x 00 cm, 2000
Picture title, medium, 00 x 00 cm, 2000
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Picture title, medium, 00 x 00 cm, 2000
Where Are the Millions?, installation at the Beirut Exhibition Center, September-October 2010
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Picture title, medium, 00 x 00 cm, 2000
Where Are the Millions?, installation at the Beirut Exhibition Center, September-October 2010
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Haram Aleikum: Wealth and Happiness, mixed media on board, 68 x 51cm, 2010
Haram Aleikum, mixed media on board, 68 x 51cm, 2010
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Haram Aleikum: Wealth and Happiness, mixed media on board, 68 x 51cm, 2010
Haram Aleikum, mixed media on board, 68 x 51cm, 2010
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Haram Aleikum: I Feel with the Poor (left), Loyalty (right), mixed media on board, 68 x 51 cm, 2010
Haram Aleikum: The Black Slave (left), Dreams Pass (right), mixed media on board, 68 x 51 cm, 2010
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Haram Aleikum: I Feel with the Poor (left), Loyalty (right), mixed media on board, 68 x 51 cm, 2010
Haram Aleikum: The Black Slave (left), Dreams Pass (right), mixed media on board, 68 x 51 cm, 2010
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This page and opposite, from the series Haram Aleikum – White, mixed media on board, 27 x 23 cm, 2010
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This page and opposite, from the series Haram Aleikum – White, mixed media on board, 27 x 23 cm, 2010
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This page and opposite, from the series Haram Aleikum, mixed media on board, 27 x 23 cm, 2009
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This page and opposite, from the series Haram Aleikum, mixed media on board, 27 x 23 cm, 2009
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This page and opposite, from the series Haram Aleikum, mixed media on canvas, 44 x 36 cm, 2009
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This page and opposite, from the series Haram Aleikum, mixed media on canvas, 44 x 36 cm, 2009
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From the series Haram Aleikum – The Years, left to right: 1957, 1919, 1936, mixed media on paper, 44 x 36 cm, 2009
From the series Haram Aleikum – The Years, left to right: 1917, 1952, Un-numbered, mixed media on paper, 44 x 36 cm, 2009
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From the series Haram Aleikum – The Years, left to right: 1957, 1919, 1936, mixed media on paper, 44 x 36 cm, 2009
From the series Haram Aleikum – The Years, left to right: 1917, 1952, Un-numbered, mixed media on paper, 44 x 36 cm, 2009
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in conversation with fathi hassan Interview by Francesca Ricci 1. What are your favourite artists or the artworks that have been your greatest inspiration? Jean-Michel Basquiat and David Hammons, and the script on ancient hand-written pages of the Koran. 2. And your favourite books? “The Collar and the Bracelet” by Yehia Taher Abdallah and the “Rubayat” of Omar Khayyam. 3. List ten words that are important to you. Love, affection, hope, forgiving, harmony, brotherhood (fraternity), calmness (peacefulness), spirituality, gift, and creativity. 4. What are your favourite films? “Lilies of the Field” (dir. by Ralph Nelson, 1963), “Nazarin” by Bunuel (1959), Charlie Chaplin’s “The Vagabond” (1916), Khaled Siddiq’s “The Cruel Sea” (or Bass ya bahr, 1971), Youssef Chahine’s “The Land” (or Al-ard, 1969) and everything by Andrei Tarkovsky. 5. Who are your favourite composers and musicians? Sergei Rachmaninoff, Eric Satie, Hamza el din, Ludwig van Beethoven. 6. Which work – book, painting, or piece of music – has been a source of inspiration for you? Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. 7. What’s your favourite colour? Light ochre (like the desert). 8. Is there a figure from history whom you admire and why? Gamal Abdel Nasser, Ibn Rushd (Averroes), and Ibn Sina (Avicena) for everything they gave to the Middle Eastern world. 9. What is the place you love most? Luxor in Egypt, and I love the mosque of Zainab in Cairo. 10. What do you like most about Italy? And what least? Renaissance Art, and I don’t like the current political situation.
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11. When you think about Nubia, what image comes to mind? The scent of the Nile’s water when it evaporates under the scorching sun. And stories my grandmother told me. 12. Which encounter changed your life? Artistically speaking, meeting Dan Cameron at the Venice Biennale in 1988. 13. When and where were you the happiest? In 1979 when I received a grant to study art in Italy, at the Art Academy in Naples. 14. What is your greatest fear? The unknown. 15. What values do you treasure most? Love and gratitude. 16. What aspects of human nature do you like most? And what least? Intelligence. And I don’t like violence. 17. What would you save if your house was on fire? My pencil. 18. What is the greatest lesson life has taught you? Don’t do to others what you wouldn’t want to be done to you. 19. What is your greatest regret? Being far from my beloved and missing my family. 20. What would you change in your life if you could? Nothing, and I thank God for that.
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in conversation with fathi hassan Interview by Francesca Ricci 1. What are your favourite artists or the artworks that have been your greatest inspiration? Jean-Michel Basquiat and David Hammons, and the script on ancient hand-written pages of the Koran. 2. And your favourite books? “The Collar and the Bracelet” by Yehia Taher Abdallah and the “Rubayat” of Omar Khayyam. 3. List ten words that are important to you. Love, affection, hope, forgiving, harmony, brotherhood (fraternity), calmness (peacefulness), spirituality, gift, and creativity. 4. What are your favourite films? “Lilies of the Field” (dir. by Ralph Nelson, 1963), “Nazarin” by Bunuel (1959), Charlie Chaplin’s “The Vagabond” (1916), Khaled Siddiq’s “The Cruel Sea” (or Bass ya bahr, 1971), Youssef Chahine’s “The Land” (or Al-ard, 1969) and everything by Andrei Tarkovsky. 5. Who are your favourite composers and musicians? Sergei Rachmaninoff, Eric Satie, Hamza el din, Ludwig van Beethoven. 6. Which work – book, painting, or piece of music – has been a source of inspiration for you? Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. 7. What’s your favourite colour? Light ochre (like the desert). 8. Is there a figure from history whom you admire and why? Gamal Abdel Nasser, Ibn Rushd (Averroes), and Ibn Sina (Avicena) for everything they gave to the Middle Eastern world. 9. What is the place you love most? Luxor in Egypt, and I love the mosque of Zainab in Cairo. 10. What do you like most about Italy? And what least? Renaissance Art, and I don’t like the current political situation.
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11. When you think about Nubia, what image comes to mind? The scent of the Nile’s water when it evaporates under the scorching sun. And stories my grandmother told me. 12. Which encounter changed your life? Artistically speaking, meeting Dan Cameron at the Venice Biennale in 1988. 13. When and where were you the happiest? In 1979 when I received a grant to study art in Italy, at the Art Academy in Naples. 14. What is your greatest fear? The unknown. 15. What values do you treasure most? Love and gratitude. 16. What aspects of human nature do you like most? And what least? Intelligence. And I don’t like violence. 17. What would you save if your house was on fire? My pencil. 18. What is the greatest lesson life has taught you? Don’t do to others what you wouldn’t want to be done to you. 19. What is your greatest regret? Being far from my beloved and missing my family. 20. What would you change in your life if you could? Nothing, and I thank God for that.
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biography EDUCATION Fathi Hassan was born was born in Cairo in 1957 and first studied art as a teenager in Cairo with the celebrated sculptor Ghaleb Khater. In 1979 he won a grant to study set design at the Naples Art School in Italy. Since graduating in 1984, he has lived in Le Marche, Italy. SOLO SHOWS 2010 Fathi Hassan: Haram Aleikum, Rose Issa Projects at Leighton House Museum, London Black is Beautiful, Galleria Black, Bologna Fathi Hassan, photographed by Hassan Hajjaj, 2010
2009 Working Week, MQ91 Art Project Space, Berlin Invites, Museum Arnhem, Netherlands Leave the Prophets, Villa Pisani, Stra, Veneto Containers of Light, Art Andrea, Vicenza The Combination of Living, Espace Maria Sorgato, Venice Adreatica, Permariemonti Gallery, Civitanova Marche In Any Order, San Gemini, Umbria Arabian World Festival, San Severina, Cortona Water, The Music, Soul, Auditorium San Margherita, Venice Kenuz, Domus Artis Gallery, Naples Africa Dreams, Gallery Genus, San Benedetto del Tronto, Le Marche 2007 Inscribing Meaning, Fowler Museum, Los Angeles and Smithsonian Museum of African Art, Washington DC Musk, Benciv Art Gallery, Pesaro The Temple of Wind, Gallery Genus, San Benedetto del Tronto Ancient Kilns, Migration of Dreams, Macerata City, Macerata The Sandman, Manor Gallery, Rome 2006 Mummy Mama, Teatro della Fortuna, Fano 2005 The Metamorphosis of the Spirit, Galleria Sergio & Thao Mandelli, Seregno Fathi Hassan: Sand Creatures, Galleria Novato, Fano
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2004 Containers of Light, Graphique Art Gallery, Bologna Descent of the Gods, Fusion Art Gallery, Turin United Africa, Andrea Gallery, Vicenza The Substance of the Soul, Benciv Art Gallery, Pesaro Mansur’s House, Michetti Museum, Francavilla, Pescara Angel, Egyptian Academy, Rome The Madonna in Contemporary Art, Loggiato San Bartolomeo, Palermo Palermo, The Sicily of the Arabs, Loggiato San Bartolomeo, Palermo 2003 9th Cairo International Biennale, Egypt Illustrations pour Enfants, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris Africa Screams, Bayreuth, Germany Places of Affection, Brussels Man’s Reaction To Kissing The Moon, Gallery Grant, Cairo, Egypt Imagining the Book, The Library of Alexandria, Egypt Nile Sand, Archaeological Museum and Temple of Fortune Primigenia, Municipality of Palestrina, Rome The Acrobatics Of Innocence, Excalibur Gallery, Arona, Stresa The Art Yard, Municipality of Villaricca, Naples Folklore Africa, Municipality of Altomonte, Cosenza Fuoriluogo 8 Afritalia, Limiti Gallery, Church of San Bartolomeo, Campobasso The Sea, Molfetta, Bari In Words, Sassari, Sardinia Fathi Hassan, Spazio Symphonia, Milan 2002 Africamarvel, Municipality of Rastatt, Germany A Postmodern Babel: Italian Art of the 1990s, Palazzo Pegorini, Parma Spirit Matter, travelling show: Art-Pro-Art, Lahr, Germany; Benciv Art Gallery, Pesaro; Galleria Oprandi, Bergamo; Galleria Rosini, Riccione Desertwind, Palazzo degli Esposizioni Roof Garden, Rome Transits, Palazzo Albani, Municipality of Urbino The Deepest Nights Hide No Evil, Spirale Arte, Pietrasanta, Florence
Do Not Fear Indulgence, Spirale Arte, Verona Artists On A Boat, Pio Monte Gallery, Rome It Was Dark, The Nashe Whispered His Tale To Her, Two Doves Took Flight And They Were Not White, Galleria dell’Immagine, Municipal Museums, Rimini Africa and That’s Not All, Sala Uno, Rome Start-up, Municipality of Cologne, Brescia For 5, Benciv Art Gallery, Pesaro My Mind is at Walk Through a Forest, ASL 1, Pesaro Welcome 02, Palazzo Sora, Palazzo Esposizioni, Rome 2001 Alleviating Unstoppable Impulses, University of Pavia Gold Imagination, Vanvitelliana Pier, Ancona Capriccio, Comune di Valgatara, Verona Fathi e Misfatti, Monti Gallery, Rome El Mersal, Pack Gallery, Milan Between Sky and Earth, Monti Gallery, Rome Extra-Virgin, Trevi Flash Art Museum, Perugia, Umbria 2000 Transafricana, S. Giorgio in Poggiale, Bologna Container of Dreams, Centre for Visual Arts, Pesaro Postcard for Naples, Palazzo Reale, Naples Sacrosanct, Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Rome Etna: Geography of the Incredible, Mazzullo Foundation, Palermo 1999 Contemporary African Art, Italian Institute for Africa and the Orient, Rome Trittico, Biblo Gallery, Treviso Beata Africa, travelling show: Rosini Gallery, Riccione; Oprandi Gallery, Bergamo; Una Arte Gallery, Fano; Skoto Gallery, New York As Long As There’s Death, There’s Hope, Trevi Flash Art Museum, Perugia, Umbria Out of the Blue, Mashrabia Gallery, Cairo My Sister, the Palm, Mashrabia Gallery, Cairo Mimamsa Nubiana, Gasparelli Gallery, Fano 1998 Containers of Thought, Seno Gallery, Milan
3 – Dime, Il Campo delle Fragole, Bologna Simbolica – The Future of Painting, Doks Dora, Torino Lady D, Trevi Flash Art Museum, Perugia, Umbria Mediterranea, coll. G. Massoni and M. Baudson, Brussels, Belgium 1997 Under Different Skies, Vanlose, Denmark Containers of the Soul, Ass. Mediterranea, Molfetta I Kadiseen, Il Fiorile Gallery, Bologna Tribute to Fathi Hassan, Rocca Malatestiana, Municipality of Fano Go, Thought, Italian Art 1984-1986, Civic Museum, Turin Trittico, Oprandi Gallery, Bergamo Artinceramica, Vietri sul Mare, Salerno and Palazzo Reale, Naples Container of Being, Seno Gallery, Milan 1996 Container of Desire, Art NAW, Capua Santa Africa, travelling show: Mashrabia Gallery, Cairo and VSV, Torino Africana, Contemporary African Art, Sala Uno, Rome Black and White, L’Idioma Gallery, Ascoli Piceno, Le Marche After Ripe: Notes on Art in Le Marche at the End of the 80s, Dedalos, San Severo Symbolic, Fiera Pordenone, Treviso Male and Female, Il Manifesto, Rome Counterprofile in Red, Rispoli Gallery, Rome Residence of the Gods, travelling show: Villa Anselmi, Verona; Ponte Pietra Gallery, Verona; Castel Ganda, Appiano (BZ) Rose and Serpent, A. Signetti Gallery, Turin Animum Reflectens, Paola Verrengia Gallery, Salerno 1995 Containers of Memory, travelling show: Ronchini Contemporary Art, Terni and Palazzo Chigi, Viterbo Containers of Dreams, travelling show: Annina Nosei Gallery, New York and Annina Nosei Studio, Rome My Africa, Per Mari e Monti Gallery, Macerata Hunting Reserve: The Cat and the Fox, Monti Gallery, Rome
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biography EDUCATION Fathi Hassan was born was born in Cairo in 1957 and first studied art as a teenager in Cairo with the celebrated sculptor Ghaleb Khater. In 1979 he won a grant to study set design at the Naples Art School in Italy. Since graduating in 1984, he has lived in Le Marche, Italy. SOLO SHOWS 2010 Fathi Hassan: Haram Aleikum, Rose Issa Projects at Leighton House Museum, London Black is Beautiful, Galleria Black, Bologna Fathi Hassan, photographed by Hassan Hajjaj, 2010
2009 Working Week, MQ91 Art Project Space, Berlin Invites, Museum Arnhem, Netherlands Leave the Prophets, Villa Pisani, Stra, Veneto Containers of Light, Art Andrea, Vicenza The Combination of Living, Espace Maria Sorgato, Venice Adreatica, Permariemonti Gallery, Civitanova Marche In Any Order, San Gemini, Umbria Arabian World Festival, San Severina, Cortona Water, The Music, Soul, Auditorium San Margherita, Venice Kenuz, Domus Artis Gallery, Naples Africa Dreams, Gallery Genus, San Benedetto del Tronto, Le Marche 2007 Inscribing Meaning, Fowler Museum, Los Angeles and Smithsonian Museum of African Art, Washington DC Musk, Benciv Art Gallery, Pesaro The Temple of Wind, Gallery Genus, San Benedetto del Tronto Ancient Kilns, Migration of Dreams, Macerata City, Macerata The Sandman, Manor Gallery, Rome 2006 Mummy Mama, Teatro della Fortuna, Fano 2005 The Metamorphosis of the Spirit, Galleria Sergio & Thao Mandelli, Seregno Fathi Hassan: Sand Creatures, Galleria Novato, Fano
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2004 Containers of Light, Graphique Art Gallery, Bologna Descent of the Gods, Fusion Art Gallery, Turin United Africa, Andrea Gallery, Vicenza The Substance of the Soul, Benciv Art Gallery, Pesaro Mansur’s House, Michetti Museum, Francavilla, Pescara Angel, Egyptian Academy, Rome The Madonna in Contemporary Art, Loggiato San Bartolomeo, Palermo Palermo, The Sicily of the Arabs, Loggiato San Bartolomeo, Palermo 2003 9th Cairo International Biennale, Egypt Illustrations pour Enfants, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris Africa Screams, Bayreuth, Germany Places of Affection, Brussels Man’s Reaction To Kissing The Moon, Gallery Grant, Cairo, Egypt Imagining the Book, The Library of Alexandria, Egypt Nile Sand, Archaeological Museum and Temple of Fortune Primigenia, Municipality of Palestrina, Rome The Acrobatics Of Innocence, Excalibur Gallery, Arona, Stresa The Art Yard, Municipality of Villaricca, Naples Folklore Africa, Municipality of Altomonte, Cosenza Fuoriluogo 8 Afritalia, Limiti Gallery, Church of San Bartolomeo, Campobasso The Sea, Molfetta, Bari In Words, Sassari, Sardinia Fathi Hassan, Spazio Symphonia, Milan 2002 Africamarvel, Municipality of Rastatt, Germany A Postmodern Babel: Italian Art of the 1990s, Palazzo Pegorini, Parma Spirit Matter, travelling show: Art-Pro-Art, Lahr, Germany; Benciv Art Gallery, Pesaro; Galleria Oprandi, Bergamo; Galleria Rosini, Riccione Desertwind, Palazzo degli Esposizioni Roof Garden, Rome Transits, Palazzo Albani, Municipality of Urbino The Deepest Nights Hide No Evil, Spirale Arte, Pietrasanta, Florence
Do Not Fear Indulgence, Spirale Arte, Verona Artists On A Boat, Pio Monte Gallery, Rome It Was Dark, The Nashe Whispered His Tale To Her, Two Doves Took Flight And They Were Not White, Galleria dell’Immagine, Municipal Museums, Rimini Africa and That’s Not All, Sala Uno, Rome Start-up, Municipality of Cologne, Brescia For 5, Benciv Art Gallery, Pesaro My Mind is at Walk Through a Forest, ASL 1, Pesaro Welcome 02, Palazzo Sora, Palazzo Esposizioni, Rome 2001 Alleviating Unstoppable Impulses, University of Pavia Gold Imagination, Vanvitelliana Pier, Ancona Capriccio, Comune di Valgatara, Verona Fathi e Misfatti, Monti Gallery, Rome El Mersal, Pack Gallery, Milan Between Sky and Earth, Monti Gallery, Rome Extra-Virgin, Trevi Flash Art Museum, Perugia, Umbria 2000 Transafricana, S. Giorgio in Poggiale, Bologna Container of Dreams, Centre for Visual Arts, Pesaro Postcard for Naples, Palazzo Reale, Naples Sacrosanct, Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Rome Etna: Geography of the Incredible, Mazzullo Foundation, Palermo 1999 Contemporary African Art, Italian Institute for Africa and the Orient, Rome Trittico, Biblo Gallery, Treviso Beata Africa, travelling show: Rosini Gallery, Riccione; Oprandi Gallery, Bergamo; Una Arte Gallery, Fano; Skoto Gallery, New York As Long As There’s Death, There’s Hope, Trevi Flash Art Museum, Perugia, Umbria Out of the Blue, Mashrabia Gallery, Cairo My Sister, the Palm, Mashrabia Gallery, Cairo Mimamsa Nubiana, Gasparelli Gallery, Fano 1998 Containers of Thought, Seno Gallery, Milan
3 – Dime, Il Campo delle Fragole, Bologna Simbolica – The Future of Painting, Doks Dora, Torino Lady D, Trevi Flash Art Museum, Perugia, Umbria Mediterranea, coll. G. Massoni and M. Baudson, Brussels, Belgium 1997 Under Different Skies, Vanlose, Denmark Containers of the Soul, Ass. Mediterranea, Molfetta I Kadiseen, Il Fiorile Gallery, Bologna Tribute to Fathi Hassan, Rocca Malatestiana, Municipality of Fano Go, Thought, Italian Art 1984-1986, Civic Museum, Turin Trittico, Oprandi Gallery, Bergamo Artinceramica, Vietri sul Mare, Salerno and Palazzo Reale, Naples Container of Being, Seno Gallery, Milan 1996 Container of Desire, Art NAW, Capua Santa Africa, travelling show: Mashrabia Gallery, Cairo and VSV, Torino Africana, Contemporary African Art, Sala Uno, Rome Black and White, L’Idioma Gallery, Ascoli Piceno, Le Marche After Ripe: Notes on Art in Le Marche at the End of the 80s, Dedalos, San Severo Symbolic, Fiera Pordenone, Treviso Male and Female, Il Manifesto, Rome Counterprofile in Red, Rispoli Gallery, Rome Residence of the Gods, travelling show: Villa Anselmi, Verona; Ponte Pietra Gallery, Verona; Castel Ganda, Appiano (BZ) Rose and Serpent, A. Signetti Gallery, Turin Animum Reflectens, Paola Verrengia Gallery, Salerno 1995 Containers of Memory, travelling show: Ronchini Contemporary Art, Terni and Palazzo Chigi, Viterbo Containers of Dreams, travelling show: Annina Nosei Gallery, New York and Annina Nosei Studio, Rome My Africa, Per Mari e Monti Gallery, Macerata Hunting Reserve: The Cat and the Fox, Monti Gallery, Rome
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Things from the Other World, Trevi Flash Art Musem, Perugia, Umbria Fiumara d’Arte, Tusa Calligraphy, travelling show: Palazzo Fazio, Capua; Spaziotempo, Florence; and Livingart, Milan Furor Popoli, Forum Popoli, Monti Romae 1994 Saharian Conflict, Mashrabia Gallery, Cairo Traces of Africa, Free Art, Turin I’m not Marcel Duchamp, I’m Tutankhamun, Una Arte Gallery, Fano Meeting in Genova, Ellequadro Gallery, Genoa Portait Self-portrait, Trevi Flash Art Museum, Perugia, Umbria In Trance, Annina Nosei Gallery, Rome The Way of Painting, Municipality of Sirolo, Milan Sacred and Profane, Annina Nosei Gallery, Rome Trevi ex Vero, Monti Gallery, Rome, Dream a Dream, Roma Arte, Rome 1993 Submerged Origins, Contemporanea Gallery, Civitanova Marche Mare Nostrum III, Immart Gallery, Rome Dioce Calligrafie, S. Filippo Neri Monument, Turin Presences, Rocca di Umbertide, Perugia Art Is Life, Furniture Salon, Turin Noah’s Ark, Trevi Flash Art Museum, Perugia, Umbria Painting is Candid, Astuni Gallery, Fano Art With a View, Palazzo Dragoni, Spoleto Memory Paths, Montedinove, Ascoli 1992 Painting for Words, L’Idioma Art Centre, Ascoli Piceno Africa Dry Your Tears, Tana Libera Tutti, Cagli, Puglia Mare Nostrum, Catania Art School, Catania Ter-Dislocations of Art, Civic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Termoli P.S. 20 (40x50), La Pergola Gallery, Pesaro 1991 Signs of Absence, Prisma Gallery, Verona Al Rawi, Una Arte Gallery, Fano, Puglia Contemporary Egyptian Artists, Egyptian Academy, Rome Mediterranean Imaginary, Siracusa Art School, Siracusa Akhnaton, Seven Contemporary Egyptian Artists, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara Arte ’91 Padova, Quadrum Gallery, Imola, Bologna 1990 If I Gave You My Soul Ten Times Over It Wouldn’t Be Enough, Multimedia Gallery, Brescia Meeting of Peoples, Villa Lazzarini, Rome XXXIII Young Egyptian Artists, Egyptian Academy, Rome Artefax, G. Marconi Award, Modern Art Gallery, Bologna Theme and Variation, Falconiere Gallery, Ancona
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Palm Tree, mixed media on paper, 370 x 100 cm, 2009
1989 The Village, La Parte du Sable Gallery, C. Roussillon, Cairo Salone dell’arte giovane, Ministry of Culture Award, Egypt The Artist Who Doesn’t Exist, Palazzo Valentini, Rome The Flexibility of Space, Habitat Gallery, S. Severo Seduction of the Real, Palazzo Comunale, City of Treia Transit, F. Rosini Gallery, Riccione 1988 The Nomad’s Memory, Egyptian Academy, Rome Aperto ’88, XXIII Biennial of Modern Art, Venice Circumnavigation Around Africa, Maschio Angioino, Naples No Wall In Berlin, Ufa Fabrik, Berlin with Neon Gallery, Bologna Indiscrete Confrontation, Egyptian Academy, Rome 1987 Sahara, Neon Gallery, Bologna Emergenze, Neon Gallery, Bologna 1986 New Tendencies in Italy, travelling show: Centro Grisanti, Milan and Perterre, Florence Nubia, Deposito Figure, Pesaro The Emotion of Daily Life, travelling show: Expo-Art, Bari and d’Arecchi Castle, Salerno 1985 A New Generation in Italian Art, Fortezza Medicea, Siena 1984 City With No Boundaries, Pomigliano d’Arco, Naples GROUP SHOWS 2010 Arabicity, Rose Issa Projects at Beirut Exhibition Center, Lebanon Arabicity, Rose Issa Projects at the Bluecoat Arts Centre, Liverpool 2009 Adorned/Unadorned, Skot Gallery, New York 2008 Dakar Biennale, Senegal Words, Gallery PM Deanesi, Rovereto, Trento In the Mediterranean, Ex Aurum, Pescara Marina di Ravenna Award, Municipal Art Museum of Ravenna He is, Museum of Contemporary Art, Casoria Red and White, MUSPAC, Aquila The Hammer and Sickle, MUSPAC, Aquila 2007 Fathi Hassan: Selected Works, Skot Gallery, New York Contemporary Videofusion, Studio RO, Rome
Horizon Lines: Landscape Between Description and Abstraction, Modern Art Gallery, Genoa Roseto Dialectic, Pardes Research Laboratory Of Contemporary Art, Venice A Sea of Art, Palazzo Sant’Elia, Palermo Italian Dreams and Dreaming of Italy, travelling show: Teatro Junghans at Gazes Sonora, Venice; and Benevento, Rocca dei Rettori Following Frascati, travelling show: Scuderia Aldobrandini; Teatro Studio, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome; Church of the Holy Spirit, Benevento; Isola di San Servolo, Venice; Chiesa di San Galgano, Siena Containers of the Soul, Being, Memory, s. Geo Museum Pedro Museum Erastus, Cortes, Puebla, Mexico Sarah and the Angels, Gallery Novato, Fano 2006 Freely, Miniaci Art Gallery, Milan Sound’s Art, Opera 3, Florence, Enigma exciting. Artists logically, Space Pardes, Mirano, Venice Text Messages: Five Contemporary Artists and the Art of the Word, October Gallery, London Ad Hoc, Sant’Agata de Goti, Benevento, Campania Italian Dreams, GASP Gallery, Brookline, Massachusetts Nature: Death and Resurrection, Villa Saghetti Panichi, Castel di Lama, Ascoli Piceno History of Containers, Benciv Art Gallery, Pesaro 2005 Looking into the Unknown, Benciv Art Gallery, Bologna Textures: Word and Symbol in Contemporary African Art, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC Foreign Artists in the Marche, Atelier Arco Amoroso, Ancona Inside Italians No.3, Italian Institute of Culture & Novarum Projects, Copenhagen XXIX Edition Art Biennale Aldo Roncaglia, San Felice sul Panaro, Modena Travelling show with the Oprandi Gallery, Bergamo, Hong Kong, Beirut, Brussels, Paris, and Granada 1988 Capua – South East Direction, Campano Museum, Capua 1983 Alflela: One Thousand Nights, Studio Ricerca Aperta, Naples Temperatura Flegrea, Terme di Baia, Naples PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Fathi Hassan’s work is in the permanent collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum and the British Museum, London and The Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC.
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Things from the Other World, Trevi Flash Art Musem, Perugia, Umbria Fiumara d’Arte, Tusa Calligraphy, travelling show: Palazzo Fazio, Capua; Spaziotempo, Florence; and Livingart, Milan Furor Popoli, Forum Popoli, Monti Romae 1994 Saharian Conflict, Mashrabia Gallery, Cairo Traces of Africa, Free Art, Turin I’m not Marcel Duchamp, I’m Tutankhamun, Una Arte Gallery, Fano Meeting in Genova, Ellequadro Gallery, Genoa Portait Self-portrait, Trevi Flash Art Museum, Perugia, Umbria In Trance, Annina Nosei Gallery, Rome The Way of Painting, Municipality of Sirolo, Milan Sacred and Profane, Annina Nosei Gallery, Rome Trevi ex Vero, Monti Gallery, Rome, Dream a Dream, Roma Arte, Rome 1993 Submerged Origins, Contemporanea Gallery, Civitanova Marche Mare Nostrum III, Immart Gallery, Rome Dioce Calligrafie, S. Filippo Neri Monument, Turin Presences, Rocca di Umbertide, Perugia Art Is Life, Furniture Salon, Turin Noah’s Ark, Trevi Flash Art Museum, Perugia, Umbria Painting is Candid, Astuni Gallery, Fano Art With a View, Palazzo Dragoni, Spoleto Memory Paths, Montedinove, Ascoli 1992 Painting for Words, L’Idioma Art Centre, Ascoli Piceno Africa Dry Your Tears, Tana Libera Tutti, Cagli, Puglia Mare Nostrum, Catania Art School, Catania Ter-Dislocations of Art, Civic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Termoli P.S. 20 (40x50), La Pergola Gallery, Pesaro 1991 Signs of Absence, Prisma Gallery, Verona Al Rawi, Una Arte Gallery, Fano, Puglia Contemporary Egyptian Artists, Egyptian Academy, Rome Mediterranean Imaginary, Siracusa Art School, Siracusa Akhnaton, Seven Contemporary Egyptian Artists, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara Arte ’91 Padova, Quadrum Gallery, Imola, Bologna 1990 If I Gave You My Soul Ten Times Over It Wouldn’t Be Enough, Multimedia Gallery, Brescia Meeting of Peoples, Villa Lazzarini, Rome XXXIII Young Egyptian Artists, Egyptian Academy, Rome Artefax, G. Marconi Award, Modern Art Gallery, Bologna Theme and Variation, Falconiere Gallery, Ancona
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Palm Tree, mixed media on paper, 370 x 100 cm, 2009
1989 The Village, La Parte du Sable Gallery, C. Roussillon, Cairo Salone dell’arte giovane, Ministry of Culture Award, Egypt The Artist Who Doesn’t Exist, Palazzo Valentini, Rome The Flexibility of Space, Habitat Gallery, S. Severo Seduction of the Real, Palazzo Comunale, City of Treia Transit, F. Rosini Gallery, Riccione 1988 The Nomad’s Memory, Egyptian Academy, Rome Aperto ’88, XXIII Biennial of Modern Art, Venice Circumnavigation Around Africa, Maschio Angioino, Naples No Wall In Berlin, Ufa Fabrik, Berlin with Neon Gallery, Bologna Indiscrete Confrontation, Egyptian Academy, Rome 1987 Sahara, Neon Gallery, Bologna Emergenze, Neon Gallery, Bologna 1986 New Tendencies in Italy, travelling show: Centro Grisanti, Milan and Perterre, Florence Nubia, Deposito Figure, Pesaro The Emotion of Daily Life, travelling show: Expo-Art, Bari and d’Arecchi Castle, Salerno 1985 A New Generation in Italian Art, Fortezza Medicea, Siena 1984 City With No Boundaries, Pomigliano d’Arco, Naples GROUP SHOWS 2010 Arabicity, Rose Issa Projects at Beirut Exhibition Center, Lebanon Arabicity, Rose Issa Projects at the Bluecoat Arts Centre, Liverpool 2009 Adorned/Unadorned, Skot Gallery, New York 2008 Dakar Biennale, Senegal Words, Gallery PM Deanesi, Rovereto, Trento In the Mediterranean, Ex Aurum, Pescara Marina di Ravenna Award, Municipal Art Museum of Ravenna He is, Museum of Contemporary Art, Casoria Red and White, MUSPAC, Aquila The Hammer and Sickle, MUSPAC, Aquila 2007 Fathi Hassan: Selected Works, Skot Gallery, New York Contemporary Videofusion, Studio RO, Rome
Horizon Lines: Landscape Between Description and Abstraction, Modern Art Gallery, Genoa Roseto Dialectic, Pardes Research Laboratory Of Contemporary Art, Venice A Sea of Art, Palazzo Sant’Elia, Palermo Italian Dreams and Dreaming of Italy, travelling show: Teatro Junghans at Gazes Sonora, Venice; and Benevento, Rocca dei Rettori Following Frascati, travelling show: Scuderia Aldobrandini; Teatro Studio, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome; Church of the Holy Spirit, Benevento; Isola di San Servolo, Venice; Chiesa di San Galgano, Siena Containers of the Soul, Being, Memory, s. Geo Museum Pedro Museum Erastus, Cortes, Puebla, Mexico Sarah and the Angels, Gallery Novato, Fano 2006 Freely, Miniaci Art Gallery, Milan Sound’s Art, Opera 3, Florence, Enigma exciting. Artists logically, Space Pardes, Mirano, Venice Text Messages: Five Contemporary Artists and the Art of the Word, October Gallery, London Ad Hoc, Sant’Agata de Goti, Benevento, Campania Italian Dreams, GASP Gallery, Brookline, Massachusetts Nature: Death and Resurrection, Villa Saghetti Panichi, Castel di Lama, Ascoli Piceno History of Containers, Benciv Art Gallery, Pesaro 2005 Looking into the Unknown, Benciv Art Gallery, Bologna Textures: Word and Symbol in Contemporary African Art, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC Foreign Artists in the Marche, Atelier Arco Amoroso, Ancona Inside Italians No.3, Italian Institute of Culture & Novarum Projects, Copenhagen XXIX Edition Art Biennale Aldo Roncaglia, San Felice sul Panaro, Modena Travelling show with the Oprandi Gallery, Bergamo, Hong Kong, Beirut, Brussels, Paris, and Granada 1988 Capua – South East Direction, Campano Museum, Capua 1983 Alflela: One Thousand Nights, Studio Ricerca Aperta, Naples Temperatura Flegrea, Terme di Baia, Naples PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Fathi Hassan’s work is in the permanent collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum and the British Museum, London and The Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC.
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On the day you kill me You’ll find in my pocket Travel tickets To peace, To the fields and the rain, To people’s conscience. Don’t waste the tickets. ‘Travel tickets’, Samih Al-Qasim (b. 1939)
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Passport, mixed media on paper, 14.5 x 20.5 cm, 1987
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On the day you kill me You’ll find in my pocket Travel tickets To peace, To the fields and the rain, To people’s conscience. Don’t waste the tickets. ‘Travel tickets’, Samih Al-Qasim (b. 1939)
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Passport, mixed media on paper, 14.5 x 20.5 cm, 1987
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Fathi Hassan – Contenitore di Sogni, by A. B. Oliva, exhibition catalogue, Centro Arti Visive “Pescheria”, Pesaro (Edizioni Charta, Milano) • Alleviare irrefrenabili impulsi, by Pietro Finelli and Fabrizio Desideri, exhibition catalogue, Università di Pavia, Pavia (Edizioni Gabriele Mazzotta) • Fathi Hassan, by Achille Bonito Oliva and Luigi Meneghelli (Charta, ISBN-10: 8881582848) • Fathi Hassan, ed. by Enrico Crispolti (Edizioni Della Rovere) •
selected bibliography 2010 • Arabicity, edited by Rose Issa (Rose Issa Projects and Beyond Art Production in collaboration with Beirut Exhibition Center, ISBN: 978-0-9559515-5-8) • Arabicity: Such a Near East, edited by Rose Issa (Bluecoat Arts Centre and Beyond Art Productions, ISBN: 978-0-9538896-9-3) • Egyptian Artists: Hussein El Gebaly, Hassan Mohamed Hassan, Adel Abdul Rahman, Hany Armanious, Suzy Kassem, Mahmoud Mokhtar, Fathi Hassan, written and published by Books LLC (ISBN-10: 1157093922) • Sudanese Artists: Tahia Halim, Osman Waqialla, Fathi Hassan, Ibrahim Barssi, written and published by Books LLC (ISBN-10: 1158490410) 2007 Un Mare di Arte, by Tahar ben Jalloun, exhibition catalogue, Palazzo Sant’Elia, Palermo (Il Cigno Edizioni) • Le Marche e il XX Secolo, various authors, Cittá Motta Editore
2004 • Palermo, La Sicilia e gli Arabi, by Lorenzo Zichichi and Norberto Sicuri, exhibition catalogue, Loggiato San Bartolomeo, Palermo 2003 • Illustrateurs arabes de livres pour enfants, various authors, exhibition catalogue, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris • Luoghi d’affezione, paesaggio-passaggio, various authors, exhibition catalogue, Hotel de Ville, Brussels • Afriche, Diaspore, Ibridi: Il Concettualismo Come Strategia Dell’arte Africana Contemporanea, by Eriberto Eulisse, Forum for African Arts, Officina Grafica LITOSEI, Bologna (ISBN: 88-88040-53-6) • History, Words & Books in Modern Egyptian Art: 1910-2003, by Liliane Karnouk (The American University in Cairo Press)
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2006 • Fathi Hassan: A History of Containers, by Morag McCarron and Rose Issa, exhibition catalogue, Benciv Art Gallery, Pesaro (Edizioni della Rovere) • Fabric Art, I Misteri di ERGON, by Gabriele Perretta, exhibition catalogue, Latina, Palazzo M (Mimesis editrice) • Natura: Morte e Risurrezione, by Marisa Vescovo, Stefania Pignatelli, and Lucrezia De Domizio Durini, exhibition catalogue, Villa Saghetti Panichi, Ascoli 2005 • Modern Egyptian Art: 1910-2003, by Liliane Karnouk (American University in Cairo Press. ISBN-10: 9774248597) • Textures: Word and Symbol in Contemporary African Art, exhibition catalogue, The Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC • Creature di Sabbia, by Maurizio Sciaccaluga, exhibition catalogue, Gallerie Novato, Fano (Edizioni Della Rovere) • Dagli anni ’80 in poi: il mondo dell’arte contemporanea in Italia, by Giulio Ciavoliello (Artshow Edizioni, Milan and Juliet Editrice, Trieste)
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2002 Una Babele Postmoderna: Realta’ e allegoria nell’arte italiana degli anni ’90, by Edoardo Di Mauro, exhibition catalogue, Palazzo Pigorini e Galleria San Ludovico, Parma • Fathi Hassan: La sostanza dell’anima, various authors, exhibition catalogue, Benciv Art Gallery, Pesaro (Edizioni Della Rovere) • Fathi Hassan, edited by Enrico Crispolti (Edizioni Della Rovere) •
1999 Fathi Hassan: Beata Africa, various authors, exhibition catalogue, Galleria Una Arte, Fano •
1997 • I Kedissen, by Luigi Meneghelli, exhibition catalogue, Fiorile Arte, Bologna • Artinceramica, exhibition catalogue, Scuderie di Palazzo Reale, Naples (Electa Editore) • Và Pensiero: Arte Italiana 1984-86, by Edoardo Di Mauro, exhibition catalogue, Musei Civici, Turin • 3-DIME, by Alfredo De Paz and Fabiola Naldi, exhibition catalogue, Fiorile Arte, Bologna 1996 • Africana, by Mary Angela Schroth, Gianni Baiocchi and Olu Oguibe, exhibition catalogue, Sala Uno, Rome • Simbolica: pittura italiana di fine secolo by Edoardo Di Mauro, exhibition catalogue, Fiera di Pordenone, Pordenone • La Dimora degli Dei, by Luigi Meneghelli, exhibition catalogue, Villa Anselmi-Barcanovich, Verona • Laboratorio Politico di Fine Secolo, by Gabriele Perretta, exhibition catalogue, Per Mari e Monti, Rome
2001 • Immaginazione Aurea, by Enrico Crispolti, exhibition catalogue, Mole Antonelliana, Ancona • Fra Cielo e Terra, by Angelo Capasso, exhibition catalogue, Galleria Pio Monti, Rome • Fathi Hassan: La sostanza dell’anima, exhibition catalogue, Benciv Art Gallery, Pesaro (Edizioni Della Rovere) • Images of Writing, Writing of Images: The Work of Fathi Hassan, article by Eulisse, Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art, 2001
1995 • Contemporary Egyptian Art, by Liliane Karnouk (American University in Cairo Press. ISBN-13: 978-9774243240) • Fathi Hassan: Containers of Dreams, by Morag McCarron, exhibition catalogue, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York • Fathi Hassan (Contenitori di Memoria), by Gabriele Perretta and Francesca Pietracci, exhibition catalogue, Ronchini Arte Contemporanea, Terni • Cose dell’Altro Mondo, by Laura Cherubini, exhibition catalogue, Trevi Flash Art Museum, Trevi • Calligrafie, by Flaminio Guardoni and Nino Leone, exhibition catalogue, Palazzo Fazio, Capua • Furor Popoli, Forum Popoli, various authors, exhibition catalogue, Galleria Monti Romae, Rome • Dopo Ripe, by Massimo Bignardi (Edizioni Quattro Venti, Urbino)
2000 • Transafricana, various authors, exhibition catalogue, San Giorgio in Poggiale, Bologna
1994 • In Trance, by Francesca Pietracci, exhibition catalogue, Annina Nosei Gallery, Rome
• Ritratto Autoritratto, by Francesca Monti, exhibition catalogue, Trevi Flash Art Museum, Palazzo Lucarini, Trevi • Il Vento nella Scrittura, by Achille Bonito Oliva, Lucilla Sacca, Roberto Sanesi, and Giampiero Comoll (Adriano Parise Editore, Verona)
1993 • Arca di Noé, by Francesca Pietracci, Paolo Nardon and Robert Graves, exhibition catalogue, Trevi Flash Art Museum, Trevi (Gianfraco Politi Editore) 1992 • Ter – Dislocazioni dell’Arte, various authors, exhibition catalogue, Galleria Civica d’Arte Contemporanea, Termoli 1991 • Akhanaton, Sette pittori del moderno Egitto, by Carmen Siniscalco, exhibition catalogue, Galleria Civica d’Arte moderna Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara • Passo dell’ uomo leggero, article by Claudio Cerritelli, Cava de Tirreni 1990 • Artefax, by Claudio Cerritelli, exhibition catalogue, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna 1989 • Duttità dello Spazio, by Massimo Bignardi, exhibition catalogue, Galleria Habitat, San Severo • La Seduzione del Reale, by Massimo Bignardi, exhibition catalogue, Palazzo Comunale, Treia • Fathi Hassan, by Chafik Chamass, exhibition catalogue, La Part du Sable Gallery, Cairo • Fathi Hassan: Periplo intorno all’Africa, by Arcangelo Izzo, exhibition catalogue, Maschio Angioino, Naples 1988 Catalogue of the 1988 Venice Biennale • Confronto Indiscreto, by Enrico Crispolti, exhibition catalogue, Accademia d’Egitto, Rome • No Wall in Berlin, various authors, exhibition catalogue, Ufa-Fabrik, Berlin • Fathi Hassan, various authors (ref: 09020, Campanotto Editore, Udine) •
1986 • Nuove Tendenze in Italia, by Edoardo Di Mauro, exhibition catalogue, Centro Grisanti, Milan • Emozionalità del Quotidiano, by Massimo e Fiorillo Bignardi and Patrizia Ada, exhibition catalogue, Cava dei Tirreni (Edizione Il Campo) 1984 • Città senza confine, exhibition catalogue, various authors, Comune di Pomigliano d’Arco, Naples
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Fathi Hassan – Contenitore di Sogni, by A. B. Oliva, exhibition catalogue, Centro Arti Visive “Pescheria”, Pesaro (Edizioni Charta, Milano) • Alleviare irrefrenabili impulsi, by Pietro Finelli and Fabrizio Desideri, exhibition catalogue, Università di Pavia, Pavia (Edizioni Gabriele Mazzotta) • Fathi Hassan, by Achille Bonito Oliva and Luigi Meneghelli (Charta, ISBN-10: 8881582848) • Fathi Hassan, ed. by Enrico Crispolti (Edizioni Della Rovere) •
selected bibliography 2010 • Arabicity, edited by Rose Issa (Rose Issa Projects and Beyond Art Production in collaboration with Beirut Exhibition Center, ISBN: 978-0-9559515-5-8) • Arabicity: Such a Near East, edited by Rose Issa (Bluecoat Arts Centre and Beyond Art Productions, ISBN: 978-0-9538896-9-3) • Egyptian Artists: Hussein El Gebaly, Hassan Mohamed Hassan, Adel Abdul Rahman, Hany Armanious, Suzy Kassem, Mahmoud Mokhtar, Fathi Hassan, written and published by Books LLC (ISBN-10: 1157093922) • Sudanese Artists: Tahia Halim, Osman Waqialla, Fathi Hassan, Ibrahim Barssi, written and published by Books LLC (ISBN-10: 1158490410) 2007 Un Mare di Arte, by Tahar ben Jalloun, exhibition catalogue, Palazzo Sant’Elia, Palermo (Il Cigno Edizioni) • Le Marche e il XX Secolo, various authors, Cittá Motta Editore
2004 • Palermo, La Sicilia e gli Arabi, by Lorenzo Zichichi and Norberto Sicuri, exhibition catalogue, Loggiato San Bartolomeo, Palermo 2003 • Illustrateurs arabes de livres pour enfants, various authors, exhibition catalogue, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris • Luoghi d’affezione, paesaggio-passaggio, various authors, exhibition catalogue, Hotel de Ville, Brussels • Afriche, Diaspore, Ibridi: Il Concettualismo Come Strategia Dell’arte Africana Contemporanea, by Eriberto Eulisse, Forum for African Arts, Officina Grafica LITOSEI, Bologna (ISBN: 88-88040-53-6) • History, Words & Books in Modern Egyptian Art: 1910-2003, by Liliane Karnouk (The American University in Cairo Press)
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2006 • Fathi Hassan: A History of Containers, by Morag McCarron and Rose Issa, exhibition catalogue, Benciv Art Gallery, Pesaro (Edizioni della Rovere) • Fabric Art, I Misteri di ERGON, by Gabriele Perretta, exhibition catalogue, Latina, Palazzo M (Mimesis editrice) • Natura: Morte e Risurrezione, by Marisa Vescovo, Stefania Pignatelli, and Lucrezia De Domizio Durini, exhibition catalogue, Villa Saghetti Panichi, Ascoli 2005 • Modern Egyptian Art: 1910-2003, by Liliane Karnouk (American University in Cairo Press. ISBN-10: 9774248597) • Textures: Word and Symbol in Contemporary African Art, exhibition catalogue, The Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC • Creature di Sabbia, by Maurizio Sciaccaluga, exhibition catalogue, Gallerie Novato, Fano (Edizioni Della Rovere) • Dagli anni ’80 in poi: il mondo dell’arte contemporanea in Italia, by Giulio Ciavoliello (Artshow Edizioni, Milan and Juliet Editrice, Trieste)
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2002 Una Babele Postmoderna: Realta’ e allegoria nell’arte italiana degli anni ’90, by Edoardo Di Mauro, exhibition catalogue, Palazzo Pigorini e Galleria San Ludovico, Parma • Fathi Hassan: La sostanza dell’anima, various authors, exhibition catalogue, Benciv Art Gallery, Pesaro (Edizioni Della Rovere) • Fathi Hassan, edited by Enrico Crispolti (Edizioni Della Rovere) •
1999 Fathi Hassan: Beata Africa, various authors, exhibition catalogue, Galleria Una Arte, Fano •
1997 • I Kedissen, by Luigi Meneghelli, exhibition catalogue, Fiorile Arte, Bologna • Artinceramica, exhibition catalogue, Scuderie di Palazzo Reale, Naples (Electa Editore) • Và Pensiero: Arte Italiana 1984-86, by Edoardo Di Mauro, exhibition catalogue, Musei Civici, Turin • 3-DIME, by Alfredo De Paz and Fabiola Naldi, exhibition catalogue, Fiorile Arte, Bologna 1996 • Africana, by Mary Angela Schroth, Gianni Baiocchi and Olu Oguibe, exhibition catalogue, Sala Uno, Rome • Simbolica: pittura italiana di fine secolo by Edoardo Di Mauro, exhibition catalogue, Fiera di Pordenone, Pordenone • La Dimora degli Dei, by Luigi Meneghelli, exhibition catalogue, Villa Anselmi-Barcanovich, Verona • Laboratorio Politico di Fine Secolo, by Gabriele Perretta, exhibition catalogue, Per Mari e Monti, Rome
2001 • Immaginazione Aurea, by Enrico Crispolti, exhibition catalogue, Mole Antonelliana, Ancona • Fra Cielo e Terra, by Angelo Capasso, exhibition catalogue, Galleria Pio Monti, Rome • Fathi Hassan: La sostanza dell’anima, exhibition catalogue, Benciv Art Gallery, Pesaro (Edizioni Della Rovere) • Images of Writing, Writing of Images: The Work of Fathi Hassan, article by Eulisse, Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art, 2001
1995 • Contemporary Egyptian Art, by Liliane Karnouk (American University in Cairo Press. ISBN-13: 978-9774243240) • Fathi Hassan: Containers of Dreams, by Morag McCarron, exhibition catalogue, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York • Fathi Hassan (Contenitori di Memoria), by Gabriele Perretta and Francesca Pietracci, exhibition catalogue, Ronchini Arte Contemporanea, Terni • Cose dell’Altro Mondo, by Laura Cherubini, exhibition catalogue, Trevi Flash Art Museum, Trevi • Calligrafie, by Flaminio Guardoni and Nino Leone, exhibition catalogue, Palazzo Fazio, Capua • Furor Popoli, Forum Popoli, various authors, exhibition catalogue, Galleria Monti Romae, Rome • Dopo Ripe, by Massimo Bignardi (Edizioni Quattro Venti, Urbino)
2000 • Transafricana, various authors, exhibition catalogue, San Giorgio in Poggiale, Bologna
1994 • In Trance, by Francesca Pietracci, exhibition catalogue, Annina Nosei Gallery, Rome
• Ritratto Autoritratto, by Francesca Monti, exhibition catalogue, Trevi Flash Art Museum, Palazzo Lucarini, Trevi • Il Vento nella Scrittura, by Achille Bonito Oliva, Lucilla Sacca, Roberto Sanesi, and Giampiero Comoll (Adriano Parise Editore, Verona)
1993 • Arca di Noé, by Francesca Pietracci, Paolo Nardon and Robert Graves, exhibition catalogue, Trevi Flash Art Museum, Trevi (Gianfraco Politi Editore) 1992 • Ter – Dislocazioni dell’Arte, various authors, exhibition catalogue, Galleria Civica d’Arte Contemporanea, Termoli 1991 • Akhanaton, Sette pittori del moderno Egitto, by Carmen Siniscalco, exhibition catalogue, Galleria Civica d’Arte moderna Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara • Passo dell’ uomo leggero, article by Claudio Cerritelli, Cava de Tirreni 1990 • Artefax, by Claudio Cerritelli, exhibition catalogue, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna 1989 • Duttità dello Spazio, by Massimo Bignardi, exhibition catalogue, Galleria Habitat, San Severo • La Seduzione del Reale, by Massimo Bignardi, exhibition catalogue, Palazzo Comunale, Treia • Fathi Hassan, by Chafik Chamass, exhibition catalogue, La Part du Sable Gallery, Cairo • Fathi Hassan: Periplo intorno all’Africa, by Arcangelo Izzo, exhibition catalogue, Maschio Angioino, Naples 1988 Catalogue of the 1988 Venice Biennale • Confronto Indiscreto, by Enrico Crispolti, exhibition catalogue, Accademia d’Egitto, Rome • No Wall in Berlin, various authors, exhibition catalogue, Ufa-Fabrik, Berlin • Fathi Hassan, various authors (ref: 09020, Campanotto Editore, Udine) •
1986 • Nuove Tendenze in Italia, by Edoardo Di Mauro, exhibition catalogue, Centro Grisanti, Milan • Emozionalità del Quotidiano, by Massimo e Fiorillo Bignardi and Patrizia Ada, exhibition catalogue, Cava dei Tirreni (Edizione Il Campo) 1984 • Città senza confine, exhibition catalogue, various authors, Comune di Pomigliano d’Arco, Naples
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La Divisione, mixed media on paper, 45 x 30 cm, 1991