Diana Al-Hadid 02/04/14

     Diana Al-Hadid is a sculptor from the middle easy. She makes large scale installations and sculptures using a varity of materials. Her work would be considered as folkloric, and influenced by European architecture. A lot of work has influences from her childhood and upbringing. Some of her work has very simple materials such as paper cups, while others are a lot more intricate using metal works and other various materials. She began to torch a lot of her work in the process of making them in order to avoid it looking too polished.
     Part of the reason why I like her work is the European architecture inspiration. I really like that look of the old cathedrals and things like that. She takes these influences and uses her knowledge of them to create her own building out of it (a much smaller scaled building though). The work has such a dark fantasy feel about it. The whole work seems sinister, and yet there is nothing really frightening about it. She also adds a lot of personal details to her work. These include little feet that she has in a lot of her work. She puts a lot of personal touches in that no one would really notice unless they were looking for it. It seems like she uses her work to make sense of things in her own life.
I wanted to show this work because i wanted to kind of show the evolution of her work. I'm not a big fan of this work just because it seems all over the place to me. I also think this work pales in comparison to her other sculptures.












This is one of my favorite works that she has done. It's a pipe organ. I just love the form and the weird essence of the piece, it's a very creepy and twisted looking organ. It seems like it would take so much time and skill to make something like this, not to mention the knowledge of organs she probably gained in making this.





Diana Al-Hadid A Measure of Ariadne's Love-2007
Wood, aluminum, fiberglass, polystyrene, resin, cardboard, plaster, paint, and plexiglass
299 x 213 x 243 cm/ 117.6 x 84 x 96 in.




Source:
-Stillman, N.2008,12. Diana Al-Hadid. Artforum International.47, 303-304. Retrieved from http://search. proquest.com/docview/214336044?accountid=9649.
Artist Talk: Diana Al-Hadid. (Web). www.artbabble.org/video/hamnier/artist-talk-diana-al-hadid. 4 Jan 2014.
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