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    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Hassan Sharif, One-Two-Part 5 - Black Stains, 2009
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Hassan Sharif, One-Two-Part 5 - Black Stains, 2009
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    One-Two-Part 5 - Black Stains, 2009

    Set of 16 works
    Ink and pencil on paper
    13 works: 29.7 x 21.1 cm
    3 works: 59.5 x 42.1 cm
    Accompanied by 29 draft papers, 29.7 x 21 cm each
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    • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) Hassan Sharif, One to Twenty, Lines and Forms, 2007
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    Rope presented Sharif a constant invitation to tie a knot. Corrugated board, to repeatedly fold. Wire, to endlessly bend. Mathematics was another generative material for Hassan Sharif (1951-2016), which he...
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    Rope presented Sharif a constant invitation to tie a knot. Corrugated board, to repeatedly fold. Wire, to endlessly bend. Mathematics was another generative material for Hassan Sharif (1951-2016), which he exhausted to create his ‘Semi-systems’ series. These seminal works were produced in two phases. Beginning in 1982 at The Byam Shaw School of Art, London where Sharif was a graduate student, and continuing in Dubai until 1985 after Sharif had returned home. He returned to ‘Semi-systems’ in 2006 and continued expanding this series for a decade until his demise in 2016. The Semi-system works often comprise two elements, the ‘draft papers’, and the resultant ‘artwork.’ The draft papers are where the work initiates - Sharif would conduct mathematical exercises on inexpensive A4 copy paper to search for a formula, which would then turn into a tool to explore the possible permutations. Utilizing numbers or numerals to count, measure or move, Sharif studiously applied himself as a way to seemingly abdicate himself from thought itself. A momentum and rhythm arise through the nature and behavior of the systems he invents: they begin to guide Sharif’s hand and mind to arrange, order, group, sort and organize. Graphic shapes enter a synchronized choreography—lines begin to turn at sharp angles, rhomboids begin to swivel, cubes begin to stack up, numbers begin to shower. Vikram Divecha
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