Jacob El Hanani: Recent Works on Canvas (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780847869145)

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 D rer 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.

Author: Adam Kirsch
ISBN-10: 0847869148
ISBN-13: 9780847869145
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Language: English
Published: 05/11/2021
Pages: 130
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.65lbs
Size: 9.80h x 8.70w x 0.70d