| 2012 |
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| This Week In Palestine Journal, Ramallah, Palestine |
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| Exhibition of the Month: Contemplations |
| By Mirna Bamieh, This Week In Palestine Journal Issue n°166, February 2012 |
| 2011 |
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| Contemporary Practices Journal, VII, 2010. Dubai |
| Contemporary Practices Journal, VIII, 2011. Dubai |
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Reconsidering The Value Of Palestinian Art & It's Journey Into The Art Market, Part 1 |
By Steve Sabella, Review Contemporary Practices Journal, VII, 2010 |
| Reconsidering The Value Of Palestinian Art & It's Journey Into The Art Market, Part 2 |
By Steve Sabella, Review Contemporary Practices Journal, VIII, 2011 |
"Hani Zurob, one of the most significant painters of the new generation of Palestinian artists to emerge in the last decade, expresses, ‘the best thing that happened to my art was the moment when I arrived in Paris because what I learnt in the last four years might have taken me a lifetime back in Palestine.’ " "Artist Hani Zurob poetically describes the change he went threw when he moved from Ramallah to Paris: ‘In Ramallah, the fish thinks it swims in an ocean, just to discover later that the ocean was only a barrel. You know what a real ocean is when you live in one. In Paris, I was shocked and liberated at the same time.’ " |
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| 2010 |
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Contemporary Practices Journal, VI, 2010. Dubai |
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| Hani Zurob: The Painting as Real |
| By Adania Shibli, Review Contemporary Practices Journal, VI, 2010 |
"Hani Zurob sent me a couple of images of some of his recent paintings, in fact for the sake of writing this text. In one of these paintings, which are dominated by bright red colours, there appears in the lower middle part of a frame, a figure of a child on a bicycle, heading towards the other distant end of the frame, where he would only become more unreachable. I say to myself ‘Something had happened then!’ These straight lines and patches in bright colours, filling the frame, are the exact opposite of the deformed dark bodies, spread in parts of the frame in Standby. The severe rupture in style and colours must equal a severe rupture in reality. And there I realize how Zurob’s work act as ‘real’." |
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| Liberation Champagne Newspaper, France |
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| Le lauréat, Hani Zurob, redécouvre la couleur |
| By Sylvie Virey, Liberation Champagne Newspaper n° 22378, 25 February 2010 |
"Il est le premier peintre arabe à recevoir ce prix. Il est aussi le premier à venire avec sa famille pour travailler dans la cité de Renoir et s'y plaît." |
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| International Gallerie Journal, Mumbai, India |
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| From the Crucible of Struggle |
| By Kamal Boullata |
| International Gallerie Journal, Issue 25, Volume 12 no.2 - Des'09 |
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| 2009 |
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| Le Monde Newspaper, France |
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| La Force militante de l'art Palstinien |
| By Romain Blondeau, Le Monde, 04 August 2009 |
"Les artistes dévoilent une histoire inachevée, figurée par les tableaux d'Hani Zurob et ses hommes assis, peints au goudron mêlé de henné, qui semblent retarder la mort". |
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| La Palestine à L'institut Du Monde Arabe: La politique du retrait |
| By Sarah Ilher-Meyer, Publié dans Zéro2, 2009 |
"Ainsi de Standby 60. Juxtaposées les unes à côté des autres, six toiles présentent la silhouette d’un homme assis, à genoux, recroquevillé ou tête baissée, sur fond de grands coups de pinceau et d’empâtements de matière brune, noire ou pourpre. Mieux qu’une simple représentation, qui réduit le réel au pensable en même temps qu’elle le désigne, la violence des traces de couleur, conjuguée à la prostration du personnage, donne à sentir l’impensable, à savoir le désespoir et la colère". |
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| Palestine, la création dans tous ses états |
| By Robert Kluijver, July 2009 |
" The young artist from Gaza Hani Zurob contributes a lot of the pent-up energy one feels among young Palestinians with his seven fairly large ‘Standby’ paintings. They vaguely portray male figures who seem to be stuck in their motions, ‘in standby’, waiting for someone to free them from the canvas, and filling it with their dark thoughts and frustrated gestures in the meanwhile. The seven paintings have different hues and the manner in which they have been hung side by side works very well." |
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| Lots of Variation In Palestinian Art Exhibition |
| By Robert Kluijver, October 2009 |
"The kind of activist indignation that permeates the videos of the elder artist Suha Shoman is rarely to be found among the young artists. They may give expression to their rage, such as Hani Zurob in his impressive Standby paintings, but they are too wizened to claim the moral high ground". |
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| Exposition: L'art de la Guerre |
| By Nicolas Michel, Jeune Afrique Journal, July 2009 |
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| This Week In Palestine Journal, Ramallah, Palestine |
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| Artist of the month, Hani Zurob |
| This Week In Palestine Journal Issue n°137, September 2009 |
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Palestinian Art: From 1850 to the Present, Saqi Poblisger's, London 2009 |
By Kamal Boullata (Author), John Berger (Preface), Coverpage by Hani Zurob |
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Coverpage by: Hani Zurob, Marbles War no 08, 2007 |
"Saqi Books" 2009, London |
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| Alrai Newspaper, Jordan |
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| Zurob wins Renoir Prize |
| By Noury AL-Jarah (article in Arabic) |
| Alrai Newspaper (Jordan) 08/07/2009 |
| الفنان الفلسطيني زعرب يفوز بجائزة "رينوار " الفرنسية |
رمزي الجراح |
جريدة الرأي الأردنية |
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| 2008 |
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| Al-Akhbar Newspaper, Lebanon |
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Hani Zurob, Stanby |
| By Najwan Darwish (article in Arabic) |
| Al-Akhbar Newspaper (Lebanon). 05/07/2008 |
| هاني زعرب Standby |
نجوان درويش |
جريدة الآخبار اللبنانية |
العدد ٥٧٨، تموز ٢٠٠٨ |
| 2007 |
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Quest for a Palestinian Museum |
by Michael Z. Wise |
Los Angeles Times, July 1, 2007 |
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| Meet Me Out of the Siege |
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Meet Me Out of the Siege recieves the Best Short Documentary Prize Cannes Short Film Corner - Cannes, May 2007 |
Category: Documentary Type: Shortfilm Director: Jessica Habie Running time: 13:10 Country of production: France, Palestine Year of production: 2007 Production: Eyes Infinite FIlms Distribution: Eyes Infinite FIlms |
Synopses: Experiences of the artist in exile. Hani Zurob, one of Palestine’s most prominent emerging visual artists, has been stuck in Paris for over a year. His forced immobility is but another chapter in a life so chronicled by restrictions and human rights violations. Originally traveling to France for a uniquely permitted three month stay, Hani has been unable to return to his wife and his homeland due to Israel’s sudden severance of all diplomatic ties with the Palestinian Authority after the democratic election of the Hamas Government. Hani is joined in Paris by another deeply respected Palestinian artist, Kamal Boullata, who shares his own story of exile that begun in 1967 when he was forced to leave his home of Jerusalem. Meet Me Out of the Siege unravels the stories of both men, and observes as these two resilient and patient artists, reunited unexpectedly after many years, reflect on the origins of creativity, the pressures of everyday life under occupation, and the geometric language of exile. |
| 2006 |
Financial Times Deutschland Journal, WeekendGermany |
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Der Unergrundmaler |
The Underground Painter |
Financial Times Deutschland Journal, Weekend , 10 March 2006 |
By Joliana Von Mittelstaedt |
"Love, struggle, being confined; extracts of a Palestinian life. The 29-year-old Hani Zu’rob is the most prominent young Palestinian artist, a great number of his over 100 paintings have been sold all across the world. His works have traveled to Tokio, San Francisco, Houston, Paris, New York – Zurob had to stay behind." |
" Thereby was it exactly this confinement that made an artist of him. What ought one do in a house that is enclosed by tanks, surrounded by patrolling soldiers, which is subjected to curfew for weeks, and in which one cannot even open a window, and especially no door. Where air and time stands like whipped cream [where air and time is frozen] and where freedom is limited to three rooms. Zu’rob began to paint when he was ten. He used to go to his parent’s bookshelves, take out a book and copy of pictures in it. “At twelve I knew I wanted to become an artist,” says Hani." |
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Haaretz Newspaper |
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| Hani Zurob: Expressing the closure of thought |
By Amira Hass, Haaretz Newspaper, 9 January 2006 |
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Hani Zurob: On the Path to the Abstract |
By Mahmoud Abu Hashhash |
Le Monde diplomatique Jurnal, February 2006 |
"his period has enabled Hani to work through a myriad of experiences in search of his own style. Hani’s paintings about the siege are the culmination of this transition period. The reds, yellows and blues are pure and vibrant and the lines are strong, so that the painting appears imbued with a dramatic energy. The presence of the contorted figure in the painting points to a psychological echo of the physical representations of the siege. The figure has clearly been permanently transformed, because of the severe and inhumane conditions it has had to endure." |
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