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Diana Al-Hadid
Artist's Name: Diana Al-Hadid
Preferred medium: sculpture / plastik
birth year: 1981
Nationality: SY
City: New York

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The work of Al-Hadid is, in many ways, about architecture.  Her sculptures often recall built structures—cathedrals, pipe organs, towers, labyrinths, cities—yet are made of simple, often delicate or fragile materials, such as polymer gypsum, plaster, fiberglass, wood, polystyrene, cardboard, wax, and paint, commonly found in art and industrial supply shops. Notes Nasher Sculpture Center Director Jeremy Strick: “Diana Al-Hadid creates breathtaking sculptures that surprise us by their unusual forms, unconventional use of materials, and distinctive range of reference and allusion. Her innovative work opens up new ground for the form and meaning of sculpture.”

The sculptures have the appearance of unfinished buildings or archeological remains, and it is often difficult to discern if they are in the process of construction or collapse.  Ranging in scale from the human to the architectural, her work references a diverse set of interests, including Arab and Greek mythology, Gothic and Middle Eastern architecture, cosmology and physics.

Despite their personal and intellectual origins, it is their physical presence and ephemeral materiality that make the sculptures powerful, universally understandable evocations of the human condition.  For Sightings, Al-Hadid will create a new work for the spaces of the Nasher Sculpture Center.  Conceived by its architect, Renzo Piano, as a kind of elegant, modern archeological site, the Nasher provides an ideal foil for Al-Hadid’s sculptural musings on architectural ruins.
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important exhibitions from Diana Al-Hadid

Exhibition Location City Country Date
Diana Al-Hadid Nasher Sculpture Center Dallas US 22.10.2011
Martin Creed Nasher Sculpture Center Dallas US 26.03.2011
Diana Al-Hadid UCLA Hammer Museum Los Angeles US 15.05.2010
UNVEILED: New Art from the Middle East Saatchi Gallery London GB 30.01.2009
Sharjah Biennial 9 Sharjah Biennial Sharjah VA 15.10.2011
Seventh series of exhibitions La Conservera Ceutí (Murcia) ES 17.09.2011
Disquieting Muses Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki Thessaloniki GR 05.07.2011
Does city/Münster matter? Zum Verhältnis von Bild und Stadt Kunsthalle Münster Münster DE 02.10.2010
Art on Paper 2010 Weatherspoon Art Museum Greensboro US 07.11.2010

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Diana Al-Hadid:

Galerie Michael Janssen