ARIEL HASSAN

b. 1977, Argentina

Lives and works between Germany and Australia.

Ariel Hassan was born in Argentina in 1977. He has held solo exhibitions in Australia, Spain, Singapore and China. Group exhibitions include the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India (2012); Art Stage Singapore–project space (Greenaway Art Gallery), Singapore (2011); Australian Pavilion, Shanghai World Expo, China (2010); Primavera, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2008); Uneasy – Recent South Australian Art, Samstag Museum of Art, University of South Australia, Adelaide (2008)

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A process of self-imposed rules with aleatoric outcomes constitutes the necessity of Hassan's work in painting, video or other mediums. Selections of raw images are studied, deconstructed and with little intervention patiently uncovered anew. A juxtaposition of simple equations and minimal transformations is staged, producing images of complex behaviour which advert to the gravitas and sovereignty of spaces unknown. Exploration without subjugation and the emancipation of the image itself, brings forward a dimension of ideological independence in conflict with identification, or even representation, consequently challenging authorship and opening the experience to multiple readings.

Hassan's ambiguous images articulate complexity and his own displacement by contrasting physical fluidity against the liquidity of conceptions that uncertainty incites. As such, the work is caught within a realm of existential paradoxes, where chaos is assimilated as an endless source from where to extract information and translate visual experiences. Communicating by confronting cognition and the acknowledgement of self within it, cultural elements precariously balance in the geology of images that consume them.

ARTIST INFORMATION

BIOGRAPHY

1977	Born, Argentina
Currently	lives & works between Australia and Germany

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019	Translation, GAGPROJECTS, Adelaide Eyes East Bound, Cairo Biennale, Egypt
2018	Tragedy of Equality [Act 1], Void+, Japan
2016	Making All Things Equal, GAGPROJECTS
2014	Capitulation of Discourse, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
2013	Traces and Determinants, Aura Gallery, Beijing
2012	About Madness, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
2011	About Madness, Aura Gallery, Beijing, China
2011	Project space, Art Stage Singapore, Singapore.
2010	Today all your plans are going to be successful!,Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, Australia.
2008	A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, Australia.
2006	Internal Relationships, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, Australia.
2003	Shields, Convento de Santo Domingo de Teguise, Lanzarote, Spain.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2015	Personal Structures: Crossing Borders [collaborative work with Felix Larreta], Palazzo Bembo, as part of the 56th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy Recent acquisitions, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra CACSA Contemporary 2015, Kerry Packer Civic Gallery, University of South Australia Art Taipei, Taiwan [Aura Gallery]
2014	Pencil/Line/Eraser, Carroll/Fletcher, London UK Melbourne Art Fair (GAGPROJECTS) Art Dubai, Dubai, UAE (GAGPROJECTS)
2013	ex URBAN SCREENS Light box project, Frankston, Melbourne Unsettled, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide Art Dubai, Dubai (GAGPROJECTS) India Art Fair, New Delhi, India (Greenaway Art Gallery)
2012-13	Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India
2012	Art Stage Singapore, Singapore (Greenaway Art Gallery)
2011	SH Contemporary (Aura Gallery and Greenaway Art Gallery), Shanghai, China Swordsman, Aura Gallery, Beijing, China
2010	The New New, CACSA, curated by Alan Cruikshank/Peter McKay, Adelaide, Australia Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, [GAG], Australia Australian Pavilion, Shanghai World Expo, China
2008	Primavera 08, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Redlands School, Sydney, Australia Scope Basel Art Fair, Switzerland (Greenaway Art Gallery stand) Uneasy, curated by Timothy Morrell, Samstag Museum, University of SA, Adelaide, Australia
2007	'Della Pittura Digitalis – Painting and the digital momentum', curated by Paco Barragan. Caprice Horn Gallery, Berlin, Germany. Meet and Greet, Downtown Art Space, Adelaide
2006	Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2014    Mani, Sajan, Kochi Biennale Foundation, DC Books, pp. 148 – 155, for Kochi Muziris Biennale 2012
2012    Special Correspondant, ‘Art shows develop global culture’ THE HINDU-India November 16, 2012
2012    Mani, Sajan, Deconstructing Abstraction-HFV-project, Malayalam Manorama,India,Nov 29th, 2012
2012    Galan, Fernado (editor), Work and Words-Ariel Hassan, Art es, issue 50 2012 pg 84-85
2012    Slade, L, Critics Choice, Ariel Hassan, Australian Art Collector Issue 61,2012 pg 151
2012    Radok, S, 'A Little Madness To Be Free', The Adelaide Review, issue 386, April 2012, pg. 32-33
2012    O'Brian, D, 'About Madness', DB Magazine, ed #543, Adelaide, Australia.
2012    Morell, T, 'What Now?', Australian Art Collector, No 59, pg. 102-103, NSW, Australia.
2011    Tillers, I, 'Images Of Flow', catalogue essay, GAG, Australia
2011    Wu, Y, 'Ariel Hassan About Madness', Hi Art magazine, issue 12, pp138-139, Beijing, China.
2011    Croggon, N, 'Absurdity and Ambiguity', Ariel Hassan | About Madness, published by GAGPROJECTS.
2011    Benschop, J, 'Azië aan zet', KUNSTBEELD magazine, N0 3 - 2011, pg. 54-57, Amsterdam
2011    Harms, L, 'Ariel Hassan', Feltspace Gold: A survey of Emerging Contemporary Art, pp56-59
2010    Sperou. N, 'Confluent Forms - Ariel Hassan: Recent Work', Artlink Magazine, Vol. 30, No 4, pg.40-43
2010    Artist statement, 'The New New', CACSA Constemporary 2010, pg. 23, Adelaide, Australia.
2010    Greenaway OAM, Paul, 'Exhibition Notes, February 2010', catalogue essay, GAG, Australia.
2010    Lane, S, 'Today All your Plans Are Going To Be Successful!', catalogue essay, GAG, Australia.
2008    Mathews, H, 'Primavera 08 - Exhibition of Young Australian Artists', pg. 26-29, MCA, Sydney
2008    Dunt, N, 'A Few People Laughed, A Few People Cried, Most People Where Silent', DB Magazine
2008    Morell, T, 'Uneasy - Recent South Australian Art', pg. 34-35, Samstag Museum, Adelaide, Australia
2006    Walker, W, 'Ariel Hassan: Internal Relationships', Contemporary Magazine, issue 84, pg. 71, London,
2006    North, I, 'Subjective Satelite', catalogue essay, GAG, Australia
2003    Zaya, A, 'Los Escudos De Las Sombras', exhibition essay, Spain.

COLLECTIONS

Artbank, NSW, Australia,
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide,
French National Collection,
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra,
Shandong Provincial Government Collection, China,
Veoila Collection, Sydney

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