Untitled
2013
Medium
synthetic polymer paint on collage of torn printed paper
Measurements
265.1 × 169.1 cm irreg.
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased NGV Foundation 2015
© Kay Hassan. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work
South African artist Kay Hassan has worked in various media including painting, installation, video, sculpture and photography, but he is best known for his large-scale ‘paper constructions’. Hassan creates imposing portraits by shredding billboard paper, and gluing the tattered scraps of commercial advertisements back together to assemble large collages. The portraits and his technique are inspired by the people of Johannesburg. He says that ‘our lives have always been torn and put together – people have always been pushed around. You see it in the streets, in the kids begging, those eyes, the way they look at you’.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Johannesburg, South Africa
Inscription
inscribed in fibre-tipped pen l.c.: Kay HAssAn / 2013
Accession Number
2015.194
Department
International Prints and Drawings
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Subjects (general)
Portraits
Subjects (specific)
Johannesburg (inhabited place) portrait heads South Africa (nation) women (female humans)