Omar Hassan's unpublished works are on display at the Palace of Arts in Naples

The Palazzo delle Arti Naples opens the exhibition Sotto Sopra, which, from Feb. 23 to March 28, will display the unpublished works of Omar Hassan (Milan, 1987) created for the occasion.

Thirty-three years old, the son of an Italian mother and an Egyptian father, a student of Alberto Garutti, a great exponent of Italian contemporary art, Hassan realized his new journey as a rite of passage, a change, a step beyond his already seen.

Stripping his painterly gestures of color, revealing the true soul of the concept, he sought to arrive at a politics of theinterieur by highlighting the most intimate aspect of the work. He did this by working on Black and White, protagonists in this attempt to highlight pictorial gestures of synthesis, so that color becomes a fundamental bridge in the artist’s expression. Below Above invites reflection on the importance of the individual in our society (mats, sculptures) and the proper attention we should pay to the place where we live and where our children will live.

As curator Maria Savarese writes in the accompanying notes to the exhibition, “from Omar Hassan’s works...one catches the movement of the artist as he paints, one senses the colors he used first and the strength he imprinted in each and every drop. Painting becomes a gesture and each gesture a mark on the canvas. The saturation of the pictorial space generates as a result the total inclusion of the viewer in the dimension created by the artist made of pure expression not mediated even by mimesis.”

In Omar Hassan, art also emerges as a need and a rebirth, as an expression of moods, an explosion of energy, a design synthesis. Several signs of the present are present in his works: from the street art culture present in the Injections series, to the action painting that refers to his Egyptian roots and Islamic art; from the series on boxing Breaking Through, 121 large paintings related to the synthesis of gesture (and in Naples two new works from the new series Breaking Through Black will be on view) to the canvases of the Time Lines series.

The exhibition is promoted by theDepartment of Culture and Tourism of the City of Naples, realized in collaboration with Fondazione Alberto Peruzzo, Prometeo Gallery and Fondazione Cavaliere del Lavoro Alberto Giacomini, with technical-organizational coordination by Editori Paparo.

For all information you can visit the official website of the City of Naples.

Pictured: Omar Hassan, We (2020; spray on canvas and sculpture sculpture 85 cm high, canvas 180x250 cm)

Omar Hassan's unpublished works are on display at the Palace of Arts in Naples

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