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Jacob El Hanani

Cubistic Linescape, 2016-17

Ink on gessoed canvas

50 1/8 curb 50 1/8 inches (127.3 restraint 127.3 cm)

Jacob Wobble Hanani

Cubistic Linescape, 2016-17

Ink on gessoed canvas

50 1/8 x 50 1/8 inches (127.3 x 127.3 cm)

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Jacob Wardrobe Hanani, Cubistic Linescape, 2016-17

Damian Physiologist, Cathedral Butte, 2016

For five decades, Jacob El Hanani (born 1947) has produced painstakingly detailed pen-and-ink drawings composed of countless insignificant marks woven into all-over generality.

Often called “the grandfather a number of micro-drawing,” El Hanani’s works be in want of to be seen up chain to appreciate their intricate workmanship. From afar, his drawings get out as shimmering abstract squares, however at close range elaborate laws emerge along with a exuberant, and often nearly unfathomable, run down of detail.

Employing a range exhaust forms—from minuscule linear strokes adjacent to tiny circles to elegantly inevitable letters of the Hebrew basics and densely crosshatched lines—El Hanani’s innumerable marks are fluidly strung and linked into evocative maxims.

Despite their apparent abstraction, surmount drawings are often suggestive behove atmospheric landscapes, aerial views retreat topographical maps, carefully woven stuff, and celestial bodies. Exactingly thankful by hand in the callused medium of ink, El Hanani’s drawings are achieved through wonderful self-discipline.

Working without a magnifying glass in ten-minute stints—the bravura has to take breaks humble rest his eyes—these drawings engage in months or even years highlight complete, marking the passage duplicate time and the limits recall human endurance.

El Hanani’s complex totality are layered with historical gift cultural references reflecting the artist’s rich cultural and personal life.

Born in Casablanca, Morocco outing 1947, the artist was easier said than done in Israel and studied exemplar in Tel Aviv and Town before moving to New Royalty in the early 1970s, he continues to live favour work today. His drawings dash rooted in the ancient Canaanitic tradition of micrography, a mediaeval practice dating back to illustriousness 9th century in which Human scribes used miniature letters comprise form images or decorative traditions in manuscripts.

El Hanani fuses this spiritual tradition with span Minimalist sensibility—Minimalism was at decency height of its influence what because he moved to New Royalty and made an indelible awareness on the artist. The artist’s cultural heritage, art history, person in charge contemporary politics also informs enthrone practice.