التشكيلي

منير حنون

Munir Hanoon

• 1984-86: Research and study in relief and sculpture in fiber glass in School of Craftsman Arts in Madrid (Spain).
  
   
• 1985-87: Specialization in graphics in School of Graphic Arts in Madrid (Spain).
  
   
• 1997: Atelier of free art in Center of Fine Arts – Painting (under the auspices of artist Juan Genovés).
  
   
• 1998: Atelier of free art in Center of Fine Arts – Painting ( under the auspices of artist Darío Villalba).
  
   
• 2000: Preparing dissertation for PhD in Graphic – San Fernando university of Fine Arts in Madrid (Spain).
  
   
• 2003: Obtaining DEA (Diploma of advanced university studies) in the university of Fine Arts in Madrid (Spain).

Exhibitions

• ONE MAN EXHIBITION:
  
   
  • 1984 Torres Begue Gallery, Madrid (Spain).
  • 1985 Velázquez Gallery, Valladolid (Spain).
  • 1986 Bagatel Gallery, Madrid (Spain).
  • 1989 Aldaba Gallery, Madrid (Spain).
  • 1992 Nerva Gallery, Madrid (Spain). Spanish Association of Painter and Sculpture, Madrid (Spain).
  • 1998 Edición Arte Diez Gallery, Madrid (Spain).
  • 1999 Dionis Bennassar Gallery, Madrid (Spain).
  • 2000 C.C. Villa de Móstoles (Spain).
  • 2002 Edición Arte Diez Gallery, Madrid, Spain.
     
  • 2003 Gallery Private Collection. Virtual gallery of Art, Madrid, Spain.
  • 2003 Edición Arte Diez Gallery, Madrid, Spain.
    
     
• COLLECTIVES EXHIBITIONS: (Selection):
  
   
  • Arabic Contemporary Art Painting Exhibit, Tunisia.
  • Print Exhibit International Biennial, Taiwan.
  • Norwegian International Print Triennial, Norway.
  • I Print Biennial, Masttrech (Holland).
  • II,V Print International Biennial, Kochi (Japan).
  • FIAC Edition SAGA 9th Salon of Limited Art Editions, Paris.
  • Print International Triennial, Cracow (Poland).
  • Mini Print International Tama Art University, Tokyo (Japan).
  • International Fair of Contemporary Print. Stampa in Madrid (Spain).
  • International of Contemporary Art. Sharjah. U.A.E.
  • International Biennal “ Josepede Ribra “ Xativa, (Spain).

Collections and Prizes

• Museum of modern Art Tunisia.
  
   
• San Fernando Academy for Fine Art. National Calligraphy in Madrid.
  
   
• National Library. Madrid.
  
   
• Museum of Graphic Art. El Cairo (Egypt).
  
   
• Tama Art University Museum. Tokyo (Japan).
  
   
• Museum of Print Art. Masttrech .(Holland).
  
   
• 2º Prize. Association of Painter and Sculpture. Madrid (Spain).
  
   
• 3º Prize. 58 Autumn Salon Association of Painter and Sculpture. Madrid (Spain).
  
   
• Honorary Prize “Savings Bank of Madrid “, Madrid (Spain).
  
   
• 3º Prize VII Biennial International Print Exhibit, Taipei (Taiwan).
  
   

• Biennial of Engraving Caixanova “Julio Pérez Nespereira”, Orense (Spain).

   Munir is an artist committed to the world he lives in and is engaged with the human feature. He offers us a work distinguished by a concept based on abstraction that reflects existential grief, alienation, agony, and the struggle of the human being in his environment.

      Munir uses different techniques and bases in his work, preferring the acrylic painting, applying it on canvas, paper and carton. He uses the collage as well through mixing painting with black and white photographs characterized by influential social content. We can not ignore his graphics which, as the rest of his works, embody the interpenetration of art and feelings.

      Munir's paintings come into our view in the form of dual paintings where two entirely different worlds conflict. In the first we see a documentary black and white world expressing an intensive sense of solitude. In the second we see a powerful movement shaping a number of figures, lines, circles and unfinished strokes. And we hear Munir's cry through the silent symbols embodied by the strokes of a single, but strong brush, prevailing in the art work and composed of intensive colours contrasting and balancing with the former conviction, reaching us through twisting forms that sometimes manifest in a violent manner that reveal frustration.

      Thus we find ourselves facing an aesthetic expression of the feelings of an artist who lets us enter his inner world sharing his anxiety and anger at injustice. Here Munir provoke us through his questions and symbols, moving us towards contradiction. How can we find beauty within this flow of concerns? The artist manages to influence us and we discover his creativity through his colours and strokes that are angrily manifested on solid bases. These bases appear as if they were boundaries that can not be penetrated and they symbolise the human powerlessness in the face of the horror surrounding the human being. These art works are the wall against which we throw our whole anger.

      Munir's works invite us to inner contemplation and keep us away from indifference and apathy. Thus he introduces art as a component of Meditation and rebellion.