Tempo al Tempo: Omar Hassan arrives in Rome!
After captivating international collectors, presenting solo exhibitions in London, New York, Berlin and Miami, and attracting the attention of personalities such as Sharon Stone and Spike Lee, on March 19, 2026, Omar Hassan inaugurates Tempo al Tempo, his first solo exhibition in Rome.
For the first time in the Italian capital, the Italian Egyptian artist presents his contemporary artistic production in the spaces of Galleria Latina, located at Via Latina 41, in the Appio Latino district.
Rome is not only a destiny hidden as an anagram in his name, but also a project cultivated over time. Time is a central theme running through Omar Hassan’s art: time that flows inexorably and cannot be touched, unstoppable and capable of marking everything. It is an existential question that becomes the driving force behind his artistic production.
“I want to create something that lasts beyond my own time, and only art makes that possible,” Hassan explains.
Tempo al Tempo is the work of a mature artist, ready to leave not only his mark, but also his artistic tribute to the capital.
At the heart of Galleria Latina will be the large work dedicated by the artist to the city of Rome: a map of the city’s districts created entirely with his mapping technique. This series of works explores the value of the individual within the community. It is made with spray paint caps, the ultimate symbol of street art, each one painted individually to compose the cities that have hosted the artist’s exhibitions.
Galleria Latina will also present previously unseen works created by the artist specifically for the city of Rome.
The Roman exhibition path will offer a complete overview of Hassan’s artistic production, following his four main bodies of work: Breaking Through, Lights, Maps and Sculptures, all connected by a reflection on time.
The exhibition will feature some of the most iconic series from his artistic research. Among them are the large canvases created with boxing gloves, tangible memories of his sporting past, entitled Breaking Through Black. These works are now part of important international collections, from Europe to Hollywood.
Breaking Through originates from the artist’s personal experience in boxing: 121 canvases, like the 121 boxing matches he fought. The punch becomes a creative gesture, transforming impact into a generative act. Action painting becomes autobiography, an existential metaphor for the artist, a physical gesture that turns into a universal language.
Not aggression, but resilience. Not rupture, but transformation.
If Breaking Through is body, Lights is vision. Spray paint, layering and fragmentation: in a fragmented time, Hassan works on collective energy. Lights is an investigation into the human soul and the connection between people: particles of color representing individuals that, by merging together, generate a single luminous vibration.
The exhibition is completed by the sculptures, including Il Pugno di Michelangelo: a 95 centimetre plaster boxing glove, created from 280 kilos of clay, which crystallizes in sculptural form the strength and courage that life forces us to wear. The gesture, from pictorial impact, becomes matter. The tension of the blow becomes volume, presence and memory.
His works, from layered canvases to plaster and bronze pieces, reflect a rigorous attention to materiality. Drips, chromatic vibrations and interventions that cross, and sometimes invade, the surface: each work is a dialogue between gesture and time, between impulse and permanence.
Hassan looks to pioneers of graffiti writing such as Jean Michel Basquiat and to the abstractions of Jackson Pollock, reworking that energy into a deeply personal artistic research. For Hassan, creating means building a shared language: a hymn to peace and global citizenship.
The son of two cultures, his mother’s Italian heritage and his father’s Egyptian background, Hassan embodies in his own identity the tension toward encounter that runs throughout his entire production.
Omar Hassan’s art is physical and visceral. It is an art capable of striking directly into the soul of those who observe it.
During the exhibition period, live performances by the artist are planned, in which the creative gesture will unfold before the public, transforming energy into a shared experience.
The exhibition opens on March 19, 2026, at 6:30 p.m. at Galleria Latina, Via Latina 41, Rome, and will remain open to the public until April 26, 2026.
The opening will be accompanied by an exclusive event bringing together collectors, press, and personalities from the worlds of art and entertainment.
