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Pre-owned Serge Hamad Beach '4' Limited Edition Print In Blue

Photograph Photograph taken with a digital single-lens reflex camera and printed with archival pigments on fine art rag paper Measures: 30.00 x 40.00 in 76.2 x 101.6 cm Edition of 30 This work comes with a Certificate of Authenticity signed by the artist. In Serge Hamad's Relax series, sunbathers frolic on the soft sands of Venice Beach while seagulls fly overhead. Exploring themes of solitude, repose, and recreation, Hamad's photographs emphasize the vastness of sea and sky, allowing the viewer to relax into the scenes. Serge Hamad is a French/Algerian self taught artist based in New York. The artist started photography at a very young age. In the mid-eighties, he used both video and photography as a media to cover war-zones and inform about sociopolitical situations like in Iraq, Balkan… Exposed to both Western and Eastern culture at a young age he feels that "An artwork is successful when once injected into the communication channels it manages to awake a dialog.” Yet Serge Hamad also makes room in his oeuvre for more light-hearted fare. In his Temporal Perception series, he turns an expressive realistic image into abstraction, shifts colors and blurs them into reality between photography and digital rendering. When seen for the first time at a glimpse, the artworks seem to form an entity. "It’s just when our brain starts to analyze our vision that we understand how we lost our childhood.” says the artist. In 2010, Serge Hamad dedicated his time mainly to fine art photography. His work has been exhibited at several galleries in the US as well as internationally and auctioned at Paddle 8, Artsy, Christie’s London, Sotheby’s House, and the Robert Wilson’s Water Mill Foundation. Courtesy of the Artist.