Milan Malpensa, 01.07.2024 – Exit Lights, the solo exhibition by Omar Hassan, curated by Mariacristina Ferraioli, was inaugurated today in the presence of the artist, Anna Scavuzzo, Deputy Mayor of Milan, Maurizio Baruffi, Head of Public Affairs at SEA, and Mariacristina Ferraioli, the exhibition curator, at La Porta di Milano in Terminal 1 of Malpensa Airport.
On this occasion, Omar Hassan (born Milan, 1987), one of the most innovative artists on the international art scene, presents Exit Lights, a monumental site-specific work created specifically for La Porta di Milano, a prestigious exhibition space located in the heart of the airport and a strategic passage for millions of travelers each year. This symbolic and captivating location is elevated by Hassan’s exhibition project, which blends tradition and modernity, creating an immersive and enchanting space for visitors in transit.
A multifaceted artist whose work spans painting, sculpture, video art, environmental installation, performance, and writing, Hassan approaches contemporary art with a visual intensity of rare power. For the artist, La Porta di Milano represents a stargate to push beyond the boundaries of contemporaneity, elevating his artistic research to a new level of expression, engagement, and value. The setup allows a unique interplay between Hassan’s pictorial work—created specifically for this site—and a video that captures the artist's gestures in action.
“In the work created for La Porta di Milano at Terminal 1 of Malpensa Airport,” says Mariacristina Ferraioli, curator of the exhibition, “light emerges from darkness, as in the most classic tradition of painting, yet with an unusual expressive force made even more intense by the scale of the canvas. Illuminating the space with the light of art represents Hassan’s great challenge, as he once again pushes his painterly gestures onto a large-scale canvas with a brand-new work. It is a piece that speaks to all of us, as the artist delves into the complexity of the human soul and psyche, exploring that unique interplay of light and shadow that helps define our individuality and our experience as human beings.”
The exhibition will be open to the public from July 3, 2024, to January 7, 2025.
Admission is free.
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