HONG KONG CONVENTION AND EXHIBITION CENTRE, HONG KONG
INSIGHTS, BOOTH: 3D 30
"Art is not made for understanding, it is made for feeling and emotion. I want the audience to add [to the work], to interpret in their own way...when someone comes to me and says 'I like your work' it means he has understood it." Hassan Sharif, 2013
Hassan Sharif came of age during a formative period in the history of the United Arab Emirates. As he matured as an artist in the 1980s and 1990s he developed an oeuvre comprising myriad individual works that range from meticulously rendered works on paper to assemblages of cheap and widely available materials. Having studied art in London in the early 1980s Sharif was particularly drawn to British Constructivism.
