Jacob El Hanani - Couverture rigide

Kirsch, Adam

 
9780847869145: Jacob El Hanani
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0847869148 ISBN 13 : 9780847869145
Editeur : Rizzoli, 2021

Synopsis

The recent work of this New York-based artist who works with extraordinary painterly and calligraphic artistic detail.

Jacob El Hanani (b. 1947) was born in Casablanca, Morocco, and was raised in Israel. He produces highly intricate works through the painstaking repetition of miniscule marks, often Hebrew letters repeated thousands of times using ink on paper or canvas. He draws these images without magnification. The end result is a work of extraordinary detail that appears to be a pattern from a distance and speaks of the passage of time and the link between the microscopic and the infinite.

Inspired by Albrecht Dürer and minimalism, El Hanani practices the ancient art of micrography, in which tiny calligraphic letters are repeatedly drawn to create abstract designs. Jewish scribes used this technique to transcribe holy texts. El Hanani sees his work as part of this continuum and himself as a champion of the handmade.

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À propos de l'auteur

Adam Kirsch is an American poet and literary critic.

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Éditeur
Rizzoli
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0847869148
ISBN 13 
9780847869145
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
120
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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