Nima Sagharchi
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Lot 59*
Michael Halak(Palestine, born 1975)Memory Boxes 35 x 45 cm each
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London, New Bond Street£5,000 - £8,000
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Noor Soussi
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Michael Halak (Palestine, born 1975)
Memory Boxes
oil on canvas in two parts
both executed in 2016
35 x 45 cm each
oil on canvas in two parts
both executed in 2016
35 x 45 cm each
Footnotes
Provenance:
Property from a distinguished private collection, Lebanon
Michael Halak was born in 1975 in Fassuta village, upper Galilee. He currently lives and work in Haifa. After studying Fine Arts at Haifa University, Halak was granted a residence scholarship in 2005 to attend the Florence Academy of Art, Italy. During his time in Italy Hallak perfected his hyper-realist style. He graduated with a M.F.A at Haifa University in 2009.
Halak's works moves along the frontier between hyper-realism and conceptualism. The illusion of reality represented on canvas may be seductively beautiful and perfect, but equally conveys feelings of disruption and disintegration. The perfectly constructed and executed works depicting landscapes, feeling, often impermanence, hybridity, entrapment or categorisation. Halak plays with our perception to make us feel what he feels, to experience his reality: a life in transition, in a place is not really his.
Halak has exhibited extensively in museums such as Tel Aviv museum, Herzelia museum, Haifa museum and many more. Also, he has exhibited in many galleries in the Middle East, Europe, and the U.S. He has won several awards including the Ministry of Culture and Sports for contemporary artists (twice) and the Rappaport prize for a young painter and many more.
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