Sadko Hadzihasanovic: Hunter Games and Other Stories

Sadko Hadzihasanovic’s multimedia employs humor and irony to probe notions of history, ideology and consumption. His works in painting, drawing, photography, and printmaking explore the construction of identity and its cultural and social implications. His largely portraiture-based work makes an array of references to popular culture, his upbringing in Bosnia, and the dichotomous nature of Cuba’s national identity, and various elements of Canadian culture. 

The paintings from Hadzihasanovic’s recent body of work are drawn from sketches of hunters that he made while on vacation in Serbia in 2015. Titled Hunter Games, the large-scale works feature renderings of figures in classical Greek contrapposto poses and touch on the links between visual culture and violence, gun control, and consumerism.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website