Diana Al-Hadid's Suspended Reality | Art21 "New York Close Up"
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- Опубліковано 11 жов 2024
- How does an artist resist reality?
In this film, artist Diana Al-Hadid creates sculptures and drawings that embrace illusionism and the unknown, culminating in the exhibition "The Vanishing Point" (2012) at Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York. "I want to explore the limits of my own thinking," says Al-Hadid. The artist begins with a careful study of her materials-wax, clay, fiberglass, and bronze-and then experiments in her Williamsburg studio, getting the materials to "misbehave." Looking to Renaissance and Mannerist artists such as Robert Campin, Hans Memling, and Jacopo da Pantormo, Al-Hadid finds inspiration for her sculptures in the way paintings take liberties with the laws of physics. "For me to get a sculpture to lift off the floor...that's the first way to rebel," says the artist. Al-Hadid also reveals how her work evolved from realist drawings, done as a child, to her current sculptures and drawings made from the slow buildup of layers. Featuring the works "Blind Bust III" (2012), "Untitled" (2012), "At the Vanishing Point" (2012), "Divided Line" (2012), "Antonym" (2012), and "Suspended After Image" (2012).
Diana Al-Hadid (b. 1981, Allepo, Syria; raised in Cleveland, Ohio, USA) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Learn more about the artist at:
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CREDITS | "New York Close Up" Created & Produced by: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Editor: Mary Ann Toman. Cinematography: Nick Lindner, Amanda Long, John Marton, Wesley Miller, Nick Ravich & Andrew David Watson. Sound: Scott Fernjack, Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Associate Producer: Ian Forster. Production Assistant: Amanda Long & Tida Tippapart. Design: Crux Studio & Open. Artwork: Diana Al-Hadid. Additional Artwork & Music: Robert Campin, Hans Memling, Jacopo da Pantormo, Unknown Master, Wu Tang Clan. Thanks: Khouloud Al-Hadid, Marianne Boesky, Paul Pino, Serra Pradhan & Ted Riederer. An Art21 Workshop Production. © Art21, Inc. 2013. All rights reserved.
"New York Close Up" is supported, in part, by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; Toby Devan Lewis; Lambent Foundation; the Dedalus Foundation, Inc.; and the Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Inc. Additional support provided by The 1896 Studios & Stages, and by individual contributors.
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Love this. First time I heard an artist say she is not working to learn more about herself. Instead, making art to become interested. I'm there-I photograph to become interested...it is in looking for a photograph that helps me out of myself and engage with the outside world.
0.42 "Mostly starts without knowing very much about what I am doing. I surrender to that. I want to know what I don't know. Kinda like want to know the limits of my thinking". This is what a true understanding of modern art is about. You don't look to make something that enforces your intelligent powers of recognition because this is how your mind evolved to suppress an older way of sensing. You look to discover the view generated before you recognise what you see. This is great work. Love it.
Put the fucking bong down.
way cool...I love it! I'm much more of a painter but looking at sculpture is always so inspiring.
Diana, may you live long and prosper
Just beautiful!!! I love it ;)))
yeah she is really cool!
woow excelent art work keep going.................
cud u help me hw to go about........ as a beginner for art work such kind
real cool
Prima .
love it,,, wait what about your back you cant see that part of your body
ohmy lanta! that hallow body!