艾瑞尔•哈桑（Ariel Hassan）的艺术是有关暧昧，以及如何从众多暧昧中获取意义。哈桑最重要的成就，就是他的作品以高雅、优美的姿态持续完成这些表现，并在那优美的表面下蕴藏著极其骚动的复杂。哈桑另一个重要成就，则是当他的作品与暧昧交会之时，他及时地以他对历史的精准意识，完成表现暧昧的目的。所以当我们思考哈桑的作品，就必须在暧昧的短暂知觉－也就偶然性中，接受暧昧。

哈桑绝对是一位属于21世纪的艺术家，他的人生经历就是一幅全球化社会的缩影。哈桑在阿根廷出生长大，后来移居西班牙，2003年他在西班牙举办第一次个展，随后又来到澳大利亚，现在哈桑一半时间工作居住于此，另一半时间居住于德国柏林。哈桑的创作横跨多种媒材：他从绘画出发，也制作雕塑、摄影、装置、以及综合这些媒材的作品。最重要的是，哈桑的作品标示出及时的时代感－在上个艺术世纪完结、另一个充满可能的新世纪开始之时，哈桑把自己视为一个艺术家，特别是一个画家－哈桑在一切都不能确定、却又充满机会的这个时间点上呈现他关于意义的尝试，是非常重要的。

Ariel Hassan’s art is about ambiguity, and about the task of wresting meaning from its clutches.
The most fundamental achievement of Hassan’s works is that they constantly achieve this aim
with such elegance and grace, despite the seething complexities that lie just beneath their surface.
The other key achievement of his work is to do so with a precise timeliness; an acute awareness of
the historical period within which his works’ encounters with ambiguity take place. In considering Hassan’s work, ambiguity must therefore always be taken in its temporal sense, contingency.

Hassan is truly an artist of the 21st century. His biography is a picture of globalized nomadism.
Growing up in Argentina, he subsequently moved to Spain, where he held his first exhibition in 2003, and then to Australia, where he now lives half the year, living the other half in Berlin, Germany. Hassan works across multiple media: although principally a painter, he produces sculptures, photographs and installations, as well as works that mix all of these. Most significantly, Hassan marks his timeliness by situating himself as an artist, and most particularly as a painter, at the end of a long century of art, and at the beginning of a new century full of possibility. It is importantly from this unstable yet promising point in time that Hassan presents his attempts at meaning.