(c) 2012 Black Dog Publishing Limited, book back cover

“Hani Zurob’s practice provides an important voice in contemporary Palestinian culture, as well as a significant contribution to the creation of Arab Aesthetic.  Ultimately though, while Zurob’s art gives powerful expression to the Palestinian collective experience, it can also be seen in the context of more universal themes of personal identity and embraces humanity beyond the Palestinian context.” Black Dog Publishing Limited

courtesy (c) Hani Zurob, artwork used as a front cover page

Between Exits, Paintings by Hani Zurob
2012 I from Black Dog Publishing Limited
Author: Kamal Boullata
(c) 2012 Black Dog Publishing Limited, the artist and authors, All rights reserved
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“Hani Zurob’s practice provides an important voice in contemporary Palestinian culture, as well as a significant contribution to the creation of Arab Aesthetic.  Ultimately though, while Zurob’s art gives powerful expression to the Palestinian collective experience, it can also be seen in the context of more universal themes of personal identity and embraces humanity beyond the Palestinian context.” Black Dog Limited

  “Between exits is the first monograph to trace the artistic trajectory of Palestinian artist Hani Zurob, from his initial paintings produced in Palestine , through to his most recent works, developed during the artist’s exile in France.

The volume is organised chronologically  to offer the reader a comprehensive insight into Zurob’s key paintings and series from the last decade. Painter and writer Kamal Boullata takes the reader through Zurob’s art and carefully reveals how each body of work, created in changing periods of the artist’s life, reflects evolving approaches to the  understanding of self as well as strategies of collective belonging which the  artist’s work constantly probes…. –  wrote Black Dog Publishing Limited –

About the Author

The visual artist and writer Kamal Boullata was born and raised in the Old City of Jerusalem. From 1968 Boullata lived in the USA, Morocco, France and Germany. Boullata graduated from the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome and the Corcoran School of Arts in Washington, DC. Among the awards and grants, he received a Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellowship, a Ford Foundation grant and was a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin.

Boullata wrote four monographs on Palestinian art and edited several books on modern poetry and contemporary culture. His essays appeared in numerous academic journals. A selection of his writings, some translated from Arabic for the first time, appears in There Where You Are nNot, edited by Finbarr Barry Flood, and a selection of writings by critics about his art are published together in Uninterrupted fugue, edited by Burcu Dogramaci.

His paintings, works can be found in private and public collections, including the British Museum, London; the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts, Amman; the Patronato de la Alhambra Islamic Museum, Granada; the Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah; the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Arab Art, Institut du monde arabe, Paris; the Khalid Shoman Foundation, Amman; the New York Public Library; the Mathaf Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha; The Arab Bank, Amman; the Bibliothèque Louis Notari, Monaco the Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal; and the Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah.