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Jacob El Hanani makes minutely detailed, dazzlingly obsessive drawings without the aid of a magnifying glass. Now seventy, he works in ten-minute bursts to avoid damaging his eyes. He spends months, even years, on a single composition. He uses ink on paper or a quill on gessoed canvas. These, at least, are the stable facts of El Hanani’s practice. Everything else about his art dwells in lush and disorienting ambiguity.

Most obvious is the question of where the viewer is meant to stand in relation to El Hanani’s drawings. His second exhibition here covers four decades. The drawings are so faint that they seem like shy living things, lingering between visibility and invisibility, reluctant to fully appear. Thirteen works on canvas line the front gallery. Fifteen smaller works on paper fill the back gallery, all behind glass. You almost have to mash your face into them to understand the extreme precision of El Hanani’s marks.

Drawings such as Untitled (from the Mondrian Series), 2011, and Linescape (from the J.W. Turner Series), 2014–15, demand you do a little dance before them—a few steps back to see formless abstractions, a few steps forward to decipher elaborate city grids and oceanic textures. Born in Casablanca, raised in

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Making a name for himself

With small strokes, Jacob El Hanani is leaving a big mark on the art world.

By JPOST.COM STAFFUpdated: JANUARY 24, 2019 19:59

NEW YORK – When I mention the name Jacob El Hanani to an art critic friend, she exclaims, “He’s the guy who makes those little lines.” So I ask El Hanani, the Casablanca-born Israeli artist whose work has achieved international recognition, how he feels when people say that about him. “Fantastic!” comes his warm response. “We cannot achieve everything. If I am known as the artist who brought drawing to its most minute element, I’ll be happy.”Indeed, the lines in his drawings are so minuscule that to look at them from more than a foot away, all one notices is a field of gray. They’re like a window screen or a piece of fabric, framed and mounted on white.El Hanani urges me to move right up to a drawing titled “Jacob El Hanani from the Signature Series 2001,” and when I’m practically standing on top of it I see that it’s a repetition of Hebrew letters. It’s his name, perfectly etched in tiny calligraphic wisps until the entire canvas is awash with Jacob El Hanani.While one can discern extreme narcissism, conceivably even megalomania, the artist sees himself as a guardian, protecting an aesthetic tradition in which everyth