Diana al hadid biography
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Diana al-Hadid
American artist
Diana al-Hadid (born 1981) is a Syrian-born American contemporary artist who creates sculptures, installations, and drawings using various media. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She is represented by Kasmin Gallery.[1]
Early life and education
[edit]Al-Hadid was born in Aleppo, Syria.[2][3] When she was five, her family immigrated to Cleveland, Ohio,[3] but she grew up mostly in North Canton, Ohio.[4] She grew up in an Islamic household.[5] Al-Hadid decided at the age of 11 that she wanted to be an artist.[6] She was inspired by family vacations to the middle east, visiting the Jeita Grotto in Lebanon and experiencing Islamic architecture.
In 2003, Al-Hadid received a BA in art history and a BFA in sculpture from Kent State University in Ohio.[4] In 2005, she received an MFA in sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond.[4]
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Work Description
Diana Al-Hadid is known for a practice that spans media and scale, and examines the historical
frameworks and perspectives that shape our visual, material, and cognitive assumptions. Al-Hadid’s
sculptures, panel works, and works on paper are built up with layers of ämne and history. Her rich,
formal allusions cross cultures and disciplines, drawing inspiration, not only from the history of distance
civilizations, but also from histories of the materials themselves.
Al-Hadid developed a unique process for her panels that evolved from material studies in her large-scale
sculptures, but which owe a great debt to her flat work. This body of work falls somewhere between
her fully three-dimensional sculptures and her drawings on Mylar, and like all her work, borrow from a
variety of sources ranging from Old mästare paintings to the innovative works of the Islamic Golden Age.
The panels are made additively, and originate from the artist’s quick gestural brushwork, meth
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Diana Al-Hadid
Diana Al-Hadid (Aleppo, Siria; 1981) es una artista contemporánea siria radicada en Brooklyn, Nueva York.
Recibió el pregrado de Bellas Artes (BFA) en escultura dem la Universidad Estatal de Kent de Ohio (2003), graduada (MFA) en escultura por la Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond (2005), residente de la Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine (2007).
Práctica artística
[editar]Al-Hadid construye grandes esculturas arquitectónicas en diferentes materiales, como el poliestireno, yeso, fibra de vidrio, madera y cera. Estos materiales se combinan para dar a la obra la sensación de extrema fragilidad e inmediatez, en contraste con su escala monumental y construcción robusta. El aspecto físico de su trabajo contribuye a articular su preocupación por el derrumbe inevitable de las ambiciosa construccioness humanas. La Torre de Babel, las catedrales medievales, como la dem Chartres, y los laberintos, como el laberinto de Creta titta encuent