Palestinian visual artist Hazem Harb is best known for his mixed-media art using different techniques and while material and technique change at regular intervals, the process of sketching is constant. It is a ritual and routine which he returns to each day.
Starting his artistic career as a painter and honing his technical skills at The European Institute of Design in Rome, Harb has produced hundreds of drawings and paintings between 1997-2007, inspired by his time in Italy, which have remained private and personal to the artist until now.
His figurative works - some favoured life models while others plucked from personal interactions - reveal an intimate connection with both charcoal and the human form.
His distorted figures, some animated with unexpected rushes of colour, exhibit the artist’s admiration for the German School of Expressionism. Charged with emotion and raw human expression, these works offer an intimate insight into the crux of Harb’s practice; one that is loaded with ideas about identity and exhibits unwavering empathy for and interest in the human condition.
To view his art, check out https://www.tabariartspace.com/viewing-room/9/
