Kay Hassan "Recent Photographs"
Jack Shainman Gallery
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Although best known for his large scale ‘constructions’ made of torn, reconfigured, and pasted pieces of printed billboard posters, Hassan works in numerous mediums including painting, collage, installation, video, sculpture, and photography. Hassan's work is powerful no matter the medium or scale and the themes he explores-- time, accumulation, rituals, trade, and waste—provide its unifying force. Here Hassan presents a new series of photographs depicting shreds of clothing washed up on Mozambiques’ beaches. Colorful abstract compositions resemble Jackson Pollock drip paintings, landscapes, and rubbish heaps, that raise issues of overproduction, urban life, poverty, distribution and globalization, while documenting a Mozambican ritual in which individuals throw clothes of a deceased person into the ocean. This ability to mine a particular custom or fact of life and weave it into a larger narrative with universal implications is what makes Hassan’s art so impressive and establishes him as one of the world’s leading contemporary artists.
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from September 04, 2008 to October 04, 2008