Artwork Details:

Artist(s)

Hassan Sharif

Title

Central Market, Sharjah

Date

1985

Medium(s)

3 cardboard panels, photographs, pencil

Dimensions/Duration

59.5 x 42 cm each

Central Market, Sharjah

Central Market, Sharjah

After completing his studies in England, Hassan Sharif pioneered conceptual performative art in his home country, the UAE. One definitive ‘happening’ in 1985, documented in card-mounted photographs, was a one-day exhibition staged at the Central Market, Sharjah, with artist Abdulrahim Salem. The show included, among other items, geometric paintings laid horizontally under and over water bottles.

More artworks by Hassan Sharif:

1983 (reconstituted 2006)
1983 (reconstituted 2007)
1982 (inside pages), 2006 (cardboard work)