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Paint is howI say the thingsthat haveno words.

Hassan Zakaria, painter, Stavanger.

Sweetness, Suspended, 2026Move the lens. The words are cut from the same painting.
2026

The Forbidden Fruit

The tension between desire and restriction, temptation and consequences. Thirteen paintings, 60 × 60 cm, one of each.

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The Hour Before the AppleThe Seed WithinOne SkinThe Price of FireMourning for EdenThe Taste That RemainsThe Unwritten Commandment
2020

Lost in Time and Space

A painter gets lost in the story he is telling and becomes the painting. Twenty-four works about identity, distance and being found in the work.

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Becoming the PaintingNowhere, in WhiteCarried by the HoursNo Road BackStill HereA Country Without BordersThe Memory Fades First
2019

Floating on the Surface

I paint what I feel, not what my eyes see. Twenty-five works made with line, music and colour fields.

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The First Thing to SurfaceSlow WaterSong of the HandThe Second Voice AnswersMidnight StringsThe Shiver Before SoundWhat Returns
Hassan Zakaria in his studio
Art is not a realization or impression, art is as complex as our complex expressions.

Hassan Zakaria trained at the Homs Fine Art Center, lived in Abu Dhabi and above the Arctic Circle in Narvik, and has painted in Stavanger since 2018.

About the painter

A free drawing class every Saturday, 12 to 14, at Sølvberget library in Stavanger.

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