Jacob El Hanani (b. 1947) was born in Casablanca, Morocco, and was
raised in Israel. He produces highly intricate works through the
painstaking repetition of miniscule marks, often Hebrew letters
repeated thousands of times using ink on paper or canvas. He draws
these images without magnification. The end result is a work of
extraordinary detail that appears to be a pattern from a distance
and speaks of the passage of time and the link between the
microscopic and the infinite. Inspired by Albrecht Durer and
minimalism, El Hanani practices the ancient art of micrography, in
which tiny calligraphic letters are repeatedly drawn to create
abstract designs. Jewish scribes used this technique to transcribe
holy texts. El Hanani sees his work as part of this continuum and
himself as a champion of the handmade.
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