Tower Lights
Tower Lights
By Hasan Al Sahily
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▸ Features: Handmade Unique Piece▸ Materials: Canvas
▸ Art technique: Acrylic Painting
▸ Dimensions (cm): 90.0 x 60.0 x 2.0
▸ Net Weight (kg): 1.0
In Hasan Al Sahily's interpretation, the Empire State Building—a globally recognized icon of New York City's skyline—serves as a symbol of urban light pollution and its impact on the city's inhabitants. Through a geometric lens, Al Sahily captures the building's illuminated presence, reflecting both the brilliance and the environmental consequences of New York's nightscape.
His work aligns with the "Urban Canvas" exhibition theme by highlighting how light pollution distorts and fragments the urban environment, forcing residents to adapt to this altered reality.
The painting's use of simple geometric forms and non-illusionistic space echoes the Cubist tradition, further emphasizing the tension between the city's architectural grandeur and the environmental degradation it incurs. Al Sahily's composition serves as a visual critique of how the artificial glow that once symbolized progress now contributes to the decomposition of our urban landscape, subtly urging viewers to reconsider the cost of such dazzling displays.
About Hasan Al Sahily
Hasan Al Sahily is a Lebanese artist who graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Lebanese University in 2021. His passion for stained glass has driven him to develop a unique artistic style centered on geometric abstraction. Hasan believes the greatest challenge in the drawing is constructing compositions based on geometric principles, as this approach reveals the fundamental essence of the represented objects.
Hasan continually seeks out items and objects that inherently possess qualities of glass and mirrors, such as perfume bottles, cameras, cars, and skyscrapers. He deconstructs these objects into their geometric components to showcase their true shapes. This technique stems from his deep love for stained glass, where the process of breaking and recomposing glass with different colors has profoundly influenced his artistic vision.