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Provenance:

Pierre-Francois Ouellette Art Contemporain, Montreal
Private Collection, New York

Literature:

Border Crossing Magazine – Head on Flashpoints and Clash Points in the Art of Adad Hannah (by Katie Addelman; Issue 122 – May 2012) http://bordercrossingsmag.com/article/head-on-flashpoints-and-clashpoints-in-the-art-of-adad-hannah.

Note:

Adad Hannah’s witty and engaging A Moment of Reflection (2008) brings the art historical timeline full circle with references to new age photography of the Vancouver School with simultaneous nods to the Old Masters lineage. Using Spanish virtuoso Diego Velázquez’s seminal work Las Meninas (1656) Hannah adds to the narrative that has transfixed art academics and theorists for centuries. Engaging with curiosity and mystery exhibited by Las Meninas, A Moment of Reflection’s focal point becomes the mirror and its tangential properties that capture those in her grasp. Paying homage to Jeff Wall’s interest in mirrored reflections and tradition of staged tableaus as elegant composition ready for the camera, Hannah brings to life the art of the outward looking gaze. A Moment of Reflection is a celebrated union between the technical capabilities of the camera with the age old medium of painting.

Hannah’s Dinner Date (HD video; 2010), (lot 7) continues this exploration of the multi-faced nature of the artist’s creative calling – the nexus between old and new with resonances steeped in time yet reflective of modern society. Emerging from Toronto’s Nuit Blanche project, Dinner Date forms part of a larger series entitled “Traces”, where Hannah created a multitude of photographs and videos. Staged at the Toronto’s historic jazz bar, The Rex, Dinner Date continues bridging the past and the present through the tableaux vivants genre, where precise detail and story telling are intermixed, where performance and photography come together with delightful results. A snap shot in its rawest, most intimate form stretched over minutes in time, Dinner Date, beckons you into Hannah’s world - misbehaving and narrative do not go unnoticed, under the spotlight for all to see.

Adad Hannah received his MFA from Concordia University in Montreal. His works have been exhibited all over the world, including the Samsung LEEUM Museum (Seoul), the Prague Biennial 5 (Czech Republic) and the Museo de Bellas Artes (Santiago, Chile). Moreover, Hannah art is collected by notable public institutions such as National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) and the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal. He is represented by Pierre-Francois Ouellette art contemporain (Montreal) and Equinox Gallery (Vancouver).