Palestinian Contemporary Artists: Hani Zurob
Hani Zurob was born in Rafah, Gaza and now lives in Ramallah, West Bank, where he teaches painting.* In 2002 he was imprisoned and tortured for several months without being charged by the Israeli authorities. He faced a broad, erratic set of accusations, and after a long and painful punishment he was finally released without an apology.
*Since 2006, Hani Zurob as lived in France.
Standby 60 (2008)
Since the beginning, I learnt that the artist is not a historian, nor a political analyst, and concluded that art is not a matter of talent but of adventure. As a matter of fact, my work of art and my own being have nothing to do with politics or editing; on the contrary, it is a simple view of my private life, being born and grown under the occupation thirty years ago, and having constructed consciousness and unconsciousness under the constraints of its rules, where occupation and its heavy repercussions go into all details of anyone’s daily life in Palestine... continue
the siege project (no text, 2006)
marbles war/ the barrier/ exit (2007)
What intrigues me with the barrier, regardless of the various meanings it could convey, is the extent of it, this extent which divides into two distinct entities, the separated and the separator. This moment where these two entities meet, join each other, concentrate their seizures and physical tensions, visible or not. It's a colorless barrier, devoid of shape… And even if its' substance reflects its master's culture, who is the separator, the dim happens to be the bitter grayness of the action that separates a soul from another, and the Other from its' soul.
Hani ZUROB
January 2007
Attached is the essay "Surviving Memories" by Hani Zurob about his childhood in Rafah.
hani_zurob_surviving_memories_and_standby_60_1.pdf
*Since 2006, Hani Zurob as lived in France.
Standby 60 (2008)
Since the beginning, I learnt that the artist is not a historian, nor a political analyst, and concluded that art is not a matter of talent but of adventure. As a matter of fact, my work of art and my own being have nothing to do with politics or editing; on the contrary, it is a simple view of my private life, being born and grown under the occupation thirty years ago, and having constructed consciousness and unconsciousness under the constraints of its rules, where occupation and its heavy repercussions go into all details of anyone’s daily life in Palestine... continue
the siege project (no text, 2006)
marbles war/ the barrier/ exit (2007)
What intrigues me with the barrier, regardless of the various meanings it could convey, is the extent of it, this extent which divides into two distinct entities, the separated and the separator. This moment where these two entities meet, join each other, concentrate their seizures and physical tensions, visible or not. It's a colorless barrier, devoid of shape… And even if its' substance reflects its master's culture, who is the separator, the dim happens to be the bitter grayness of the action that separates a soul from another, and the Other from its' soul.
Hani ZUROB
January 2007
Attached is the essay "Surviving Memories" by Hani Zurob about his childhood in Rafah.
hani_zurob_surviving_memories_and_standby_60_1.pdf
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Comment by Ellen Pham on January 14, 2009 at 2:41am -
Hi Skip! So much is lost in posting paintings online (graphic arts are much more compatible with a computer screen)... I keep thinking, if this painting moves me on the screen, how much more so in person! It makes me ache a little for seeing the work in person, but this is the best we can do : ).
I'll be doing a series on Palestinian culture, as I research it, more to come!
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Comment by Skip Zilla on January 13, 2009 at 8:55pm - Thanks, Ellen, for posting Hani Zurob's paintings and writing. I'll take some time to slowly appreciate his art and the experience on which it is based tomorrow.
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