Acquavella Galleries opens an exhibition of new and recent works by the artist Jacob El Hanani
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Acquavella Galleries opens an exhibition of new and recent works by the artist Jacob El Hanani
Jacob El Hanani, Successive Rows of Vertical Lines, 2024. Ink on gessoed canvas, 50 x 50 inches (127 x 127 cm).



NEW YORK, NY.- Acquavella Galleries presents Drawing on Canvas, an exhibition of new and recent works by the artist Jacob El Hanani in New York. In his fifth solo exhibition with the gallery, El Hanani displays a masterful dedication to the craft that he has honed over the past 50 years.

Constructing abstract pen and ink drawings that involve the artist applying thousands of marks by hand, El Hanani continues his trademark practice in Drawing on Canvas while incorporating his recent shift from working on paper to working on gessoed canvas on a much larger scale. The subtle, amorphous surfaces of these canvases upon closer inspection reveal dense webs of lines and patterns, built from repeated, rudimentary marks—often simple lines or circles. As the elemental forms grow into increasingly complex patterns, the entire canvas transforms into something much more than a summation of its parts. Day by day, El Hanani slowly creates these drawings over the course of months, his ceaseless labor equally as impressive as the resulting artworks.

El Hanani’s work is informed by the meditative rigor found in the Jewish practices and traditions in which he was raised. Most clearly, the artist is in dialogue with micrography, an ancient art of calligrams that once decorated Hebrew Bibles and religious manuscripts. Like these historic drawings, each small mark on El Hanani’s canvases is a gesture in storytelling and world-building.

Working on a more monumental scale, the canvases in this exhibition are characterized by a more freeform, atmospheric approach, less rooted in the denser, formal abstraction that defined his work in previous decades. Drawings such as Linescape From the Maria Helena Vieira Da Silva Series (2023-2024) and Quadric Urban Landscape (2022-2023) begin to approximate terrains, networks, or architectural diagrams. Vertical in Horizontal Landscape (Rain) (2023) uses soft flowing lines to great descriptive effect, creating the hazy sensation insinuated by the title’s rainy panorama. The artist’s recent engagement with the larger picture plane is also considered by Barry Schwabsky in the art historian’s essay for the exhibition’s accompanying catalogue. Schwabsky writes, El Hanani’s canvases are “about the luminous, hovering, nebulous, nondirectional space those lines generate precisely in collaboration with the human sensorium’s inability to focus on them fixedly as lines; the precision of the line generates the incandescent blur of the space.”

The exhibition will be on view in New York through October 18, 2024. The gallery will be open from Monday-Saturday for the run of the show, from 10am to 5:30pm on weekdays and 11am to 6pm on Saturdays. The gallery will be closed on Saturday, October 12, and Monday, October 14.










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