POINTS 4 FOR VISUAL ARTS - 2021 By MOATAZ EL SAFTY curator of POINTS exhibitions
EAN Group for international artistic coopertion announces the holding of "POINTS 4 international exhibition for visual arts", which will be held January 1, 2021 and will exhibit 85 works in various artistic fields produced by 45 artists from Egypt, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Poland, England, South Africa, Germany, Bulgaria, Cyprus, India, Astarlia, Italy and America. “Points” is an exhibition initiated by EAN group through independent artist and curator, namely Moataz Elsafty and Reem Hassan, to highlight bright points of art in the visual art movement that took part in international exhibitions. It is an annual project that sheds light on a group of artists in various artistic fields and aims to bring these bright points together at the center of rising generations’ attention, to re-establish artistic dialogue by bringing them together again at one point. Cultural dialogue is achieved through organizing local and international events and workshops and creating a proper environment through different arts.
POINTS 4 FOR VISUAL ARTS 1ST JANUARY 2021
POINTS 4 FOR VISUAL ARTS - 2021 By YASSER GAD The inauguration of the fourth virtual exhibition by (EAN group for international artistic cooperation) comes during the peak of the second wave of covid-19 pandemic, which is still very confusing to humanity is general, but without a doubt has offered everyone compulsory pause on every level, and granted us the opportunity to make reconsiderations in though and action in the same time, and profound transformations that will affect many aspects of life; whether social, economic, cultural or artistic. In addition, social distancing policy forced the adoption of virtual reality as a main channel of communication between people and entities, and has even become a formal form of communication between countries. One of the reasons that motivated EAN to launch ‘points 4’ through virtual artistic space is finding an alternative solution to resume cultural and artistic activities. However, there are other several reasons that preceded the conditions of the pandemic. Since 2002, the year EAN was established, it relied on virtual reality as a main platform to achieve its role and showcase its vision, since it is a space that is not governed by the standards of the Egyptian cultural and artistic reality which is compromised by specific problems that emerged after the nineties fruitful era. This motivated EAN to create an artistic space parallel to a cultural artistic reality that is facing problems and marked by complexities and obstacles that face most artists. The dawn of the third millennium witnessed signs of changes in thought and action in the management of art in Egypt, starting with questioning some artists’ affiliation to western intellectual and artistic currents, in addition to partial decline in the role of official organizations, followed by the loss of “poppy flowers” painting by the end of 2010, and the January 2011 revolution which was followed by confusion in the artistic scene in general and visual arts scene in particular. In addition, private entities and galleries dominated the visual arts scene, established some standards and limitations, and even created a conditional correlation between artistic products and the decorative employment. All the above is also followed by the end of the visual arts breakthrough of the nineties and its openness policy which played a central role in openness to external visual arts currents, and learning its modern intellectual and technical contributions and viewpoints which contribute to transcending the moment towards the horizons of the future.
POINTS 4 FOR VISUAL ARTS - 2021 By YASSER GAD For the above reasons, EAN, known for the independence of its artists and curators, was established to create a more flexible space and introduce and highlight meaningful art without obliging its artists with constraining conditions or placing them into philosophical frames, or taking any ideological stand. EAN also strives to overcome barriers that face artists in communicating with others in the rest of the world, by creating this virtual artistic space, and facilitating a genuine artistic conversation between artists from different cultures and ideologies. ‘Points 4’ exhibition in its current version seeks to highlight selected experiences of independent artists from several countries, selected by EAN as shining and effective points to share their special, different, and varied experiences, and to help their development without constraints that affect the philosophy behind their approaches, methods and subjects. EAN also provides the opportunity to overcome the obstacle of social distancing and the restraints it forces in real-life exhibitions, in addition to allowing the chance of spreading art, by providing virtual simulation of a typical exhibition as it employs a design that achieves the goals of art display. The exhibition, with its current form and the philosophy of its organizers, supports the independence of each exhibitor, and contributes to establishing this concept, in addition to drawing attention to flexible solutions that have the ability to overcome problems that emerge from the control of administrative entities, whether official or private. It also allows artists the freedom to express their viewpoints, away from the control of marketing aspects, and the restraints of private entities, which definitely forms an obstacle in many experiences in different countries. One of the most importance aspects of the exhibition is providing interaction and communication between artists and their experiences, and reflect their different artistic styles and techniques, which allows everyone to learn about new trends through this digital window. For all these reasons, the exhibition is a perfect solution to overcome many obstacles that face artists and their experiences, and also a form of effective alternative capable of overcoming distances and breaking isolation barriers.
ABDIAZIZ BUBE ASHIR
Somalia
ABDIAZIZ BUBE ASHIR / Somalia
Born 1963 Live in Saudi Arabia, Jeddah Made 2 solo art exhibition. In KSA, Jeddah in 2003 and 2014 Participated in many of group art exhibition in local and internationally.
Mix media on canvas 140 X 100 cm
ABDIAZIZ BUBE ASHIR / Somalia
Born 1963 Live in Saudi Arabia, Jeddah Made 2 solo art exhibition. In KSA, Jeddah in 2003 and 2014 Participated in many of group art exhibition in local and internationally.
Mix media on canvas 140 X 100 cm
AHMED KADRY / Egypt
AHMED KADRY / Egypt Founder & Facilitator of Alex_U UNESCO International Worshop for Creativity Collected Works: Public & private collections: Egyptian Ministry of Culture. Alexandria University. Hanager Center for promoting art. Port-Saied Museum of Art. C.I.B bank. University of K.I.T, JAPEN. Egyptian Embassy, Tokyo Japan. Egyptian culture office Japan. Private collections: Works collected in some of the most important collections in: Egypt, Grate Brittan, U.S.A, Netherlands, Japan, K.S.A, Emadate paper art Museum ..Japan Tunisia, Germany and Switzerland Group exhibitions. ( more than 200 ) 1989 to Present Won Many Awards around the world selected as one of the best 50 Drawing graphic artist in Egypt_ 2005 The grand prise in Tokyo paper Art Salon guest of honor in (Emadate) paper art Museum Japan. Co_founder of (Japan paper Academy )
MYTHICAL BEING Ink on paper 50 X 35 cm 2007
AHMED KADRY / Egypt Abstract Metaphysical drawing, is the closest title to describe this approach which is how we translate Image to a sensation of mystical value , that sensation was the one to inspire and inform the possibilities of visual representation of the spiritual realms , especially the aesthetics of the magical and the enigma . Still, if we consider that metaphysics come closer to the mindset that impelled the Artist to define this style using this particular term. In fact, titles in Art could be misleading or undermining, given that the approach was based on ontology of the visual and its capacity to beautify and confront reality.
THE VESSEL Ink on paper 50 X 70 cm 2007
ALICJA ROGALSKA Poland-UK
ALICJA ROGALSKA Poland-UK THE ROYALS (2017-18) 05:16 min A prize for the best employer in the agricultural sector on Jersey created in collaboration with migrant workers. The strategy and criteria for the prize were developed through a series of discussions with migrant workers exploring their labour conditions, experiences and expectations. During each session the workers made clay potatoes relying on tactile memory. Jersey Royals are Jersey’s biggest produce export, accounting for around 70% of agricultural turnover and every potato industry worker in Jersey handles tonnes of potatoes every season; planting, harvesting, sorting and packing. The clay potatoes and the workers’ stories were presented and distributed to the public using custom made honesty boxes and a video showing the process. One of the clay models made during the discussions voted as the ideal potato was cast in bronze and incorporated into the trophy which is yet to be awarded. Commissioned by Art House Jersey and curated by Morning Boat. https://vimeo.com/352005982/ddab516eb7
ALICJA ROGALSKA Poland-UK Alicja Rogalska is a Polish-born artist based in London and working internationally. She mostly works in specific contexts makingsituations, performances, videos and installations in collaboration with other people to explore the political subtext of the everyday and tocollectively search for emancipatory ideas for the future. Rogalska was artist in residence at the City of Women Festival in Ljubljana, Stuart Hall Library in London, PARADISE AIR in Matsudo/Japan, MuseumsQuartier in Vienna, IASPIS in Stockholm, MeetFactory in Prague, National University of Colombia in Bogota, thelearning department at TATE Britain in London and attended the Ashkal Alwan Home Workspace programme in Beirut. She recently exhibited her work at TABAKALERA in San Sebastian, VBKÖ in Vienna, Art Encounters Biennale in Timișoara, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Biennale Warszawa, Kyoto Art Centre and Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź. With a background in Cultural Studies (MA, University of Warsaw) and Fine Art (MFA, Goldsmiths), Rogalska is currently a PhDresearcher in the Art Department at Goldsmiths, University of London and an artist in residence at the Faculty of Social Sciences atEssex University. www.alicjarogalska.com https://www.gold.ac.uk/art/research/current-mphil--phdresearch/rogalska-alicja/www.vimeo.com/alicjarogalska
ANGIE YOUSRY Egypt
ANGIE YOUSRY Egypt
Visual Artist. Born in 1987.Graduated from Faculty of Fine Arts Graphic department in 2008 Helwan University . Got her Masters in graphic 2014. Participate in different National and International Art Exhibitions. Youth salon ( 18,19,21,24), Black and White Gezira Art gallery ( 2010,2016,2018) . International exhibition for digital and printmaking 2011. Solo exhibition ( The Perfume ) 2012 . International Symposium “ Ehden Lebanon2019
MEMORIES Drawing with mixed media 100x40 cm 2018
ANGIE YOUSRY Egypt
The Idea of the work: Inside each one of us a lot of memories that explain our souls, emotions , so we can translate and make a documentation to our memories , I used to draw using black ink direct through the canvas & mixed media.
MEMORIES Drawing with mixed media 100x40 cm 2018
ASMAA ELDESOUKY Egypt
ASMAA ELDESOUKY Egypt Assistant Professor, Department of Graphic, Faculty of Fine Arts, Helwan University, who was born in Qalyubia Governorate on June 24, 1975, where she obtained a PhD in Philosophy of Arts from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Helwan University in 2010, and the artist has held a number of special exhibitions that embody the progressive development of her experience about her relationship with the place The “landscape” which includes aspects of its activities and human relations with all its interactions and dimensions, including the Objects Exhibition 2020, “AlBayt” Serbia 2019, the Contagion 2019, the Body and the Soul at the Dhay Art Gallery 2018 “From Aden” Gallery Grant 2016, the symbolism of the place in Yemeni architecture 2015 The dream of the place 2014 Sana'a 2013 is a different place 2012, and she has been and still is in most group exhibitions in Egypt since she was a student until now, the most important of which is the "public" national exhibition, with her work participating in qualitative exhibitions in drawing and graphics, while she was participating in some international exhibitions such as the exhibition of contemporary Egyptian art. In Kuwait 2016 China 2015 Small works accompanying the activities of the Venice Biennale in Rome 2014, Jeddah Atelier for Art 2014, Arab International Artists at the Egyptian Cultural Center in Sana'a 2013, Egyptian Contemporary Art Bahrain 201 2 The First International Symposium of Yemen 2013, MUBA Graphic Exhibition, Basel, Switzerland 2011, Bangkok Triennial of Painting, Thailand, 2008-2010 Ink on paper 50 X70 cm 2019
ASMAA ELDESOUKY Egypt The artist "Asmaa Eldesouky", from the beginnings of her first experience until now, was interested in what I termed "the aesthetics of the place and its relationship to the drama of the human dimension", which is closely linked with her geographical identity based on her environmental origins to create rational justifications based on achieving structural values ​based on factors of reason. And awareness and determination, the relationship between "place and the drama of the human dimension" is the relationship of the person with the abstract - and in another interpretation the relationship of continuous interaction between the outcome of human effects in a space or time, abstract and absolute, that relationship - symbolism - is the pivotal basis on which the artist built her aesthetic pattern in the art of painting Searching for the secret of the truth behind the visuals and the harmony in abstract forms that intertwine with natural forms, as if it were a myth that embodies the artist's aspirations and imagination and emotions through the world of visuals, which highlights her creative ability in being constantly aspiring to a deep artistic vision that extends to its heritage roots, which are characterized by contemporary thought and visions through The creative sense and technical skill, which has been subject to various influences, deals with natural assets as life vocabulary that mixes with the self and formulates them as symbols and vocabulary that Kiely with in the artistic work to establish an argumentative dialogue to reach different visual concepts. Her artistic experience has her visual transformations that work to reshape the surrounding visual scene, in dialogue with her conscience and her psychological relationship with it, to present a very special scene as her senses perceive, through her extraction of the distinctive features of the random scene that she lived through with all the details and contradictions, where the randomness of the scene is not only intended The spatial scene, and indeed the human, and an abstraction of different inputs, an attempt to transcend the absurdity of human behavior, to the recipient of the spirit of the place with its lofty human dimensions, which give the place a specificity in order to surpass its realistic material form.
Ink on paper 50 X70 cm 2019
ATEF AHMED Egypt
ATEF AHMED Egypt Born in 1969, Lives and works in Cairo. Holds BFA in Education and Arts 1995. Attained a Diploma in Folklore - Arts Academy 1999. Has full scholarship grant in the Ministry of Culture 2000-2013. His Private Exhibitions include: Center of Arts, Akhenaton Gallery 5 – 2003 . Cairo Atelier, Mohamed Nagy Gallery, 2003 . Cairo Atelier, Mohamed NagyGallery- 2007. Gallery Misr –The Revial Of Rhythms-2015 . Dai Gallery – Out Of Focus – 2016 .. picasso Gallery ( mawlawya ) 2018 ,,, His International Exhibitions participations include:Cultural Exchange Doha - Qatar 1997. International Frankfort Exhibition for Book, 2004. Family photography – Marseilles - Damascus - AzemPalace, 2006. Egyptian Art Exhibition – Kazakhstan, 2008. International TashkentBiennale-Uzbekistan 2008. "Under Current" Group Exhibition for Egyptian Contemporary Arts, "Art SawaGallery" – Dubai, 2009. International Sanaa Meeting of Fine Arts Yemen – 2009. Second African Festival – Algeria 2009. 3rd International Photographic Art Exhibition, Chengde –China, 2010. 4rd International Photographic Art Exhibition, Xining– China 2012."From Egypt" Exhibition, Ather Gallery, Jeddah, KSA 2011. "Art Fair", Beirut, Lebanon, 2011. "Egyptian Features", Fa Gallery, Kuwait, Kuwait, 2012."Collage" Exhibition, Athr Gallery, Jeddah, KSA 2012. "Egyptian Tales", Art Space Gallery, Dubai, UAE 2012. CRISTIE'S Auction - Dubai, April 2012. Art Fair Abu Dhabi – UAE,2013.El Moled Exhibition – Ward Gallery– Dubai – UAE, 2013. "Art Fair", Beirut, Lebanon 2014 – Caravan – (the key ) – Nile art Gallery 2016 – Dai First Exhibition For Arab Artists – Dai Gallery 2016 .. FACE Mixed Media on wood 140 x 110 cm
ATEF AHMED Egypt
My start was at painting and now gathering between painting and photographic to search for new forms for the surface in a experimental way Trying the material and technique in printing photographs on (paper-woodcanvas) with chromaticity treating. Trying in style and subject between abstraction and figures or mixing between them. The Egyptian person - in his local surrounding- his ideas meet with persons wherever, it's the source of my works depending on coeval forming depend on consumer conversation which negotiable internationalization and out of traditional
STICKS HAWKER Mixed Media on Canvas 115x170 cm
ELGIN RUST Germany -South Africa
ELGIN RUST / Germany -South Africa Elgin Rust was born in Düsseldorf, Germany, in 1974. She is a South African artist who received her MFA with distinction at the University of Cape Town in 2010. Rust is a mixed media practitioner making use of printmaking, sculpture, and performative installations in her selfmotivated and collaborative oeuvre. She playfully re-imagines legal procedures and theories to give rise to new meaning using images and objects alike. Under the #truthtroughplay her process-driven work embraces techniques from wood carving, slip casting ceramics to performative collaborative all-immersive site-specific installations. Rust has participated in solo, group and collaborative exhibitions at the AVA Gallery and the Oliewenhuis Art Museum as well as participating at Chale Wote Street Art Festival 2018, Ghana with the collaborative project Ubulungiswa/Justice 2015. Currently, she is preparing Ilizwe/Nyika/Nation Collaboration for the Supermarket Art Fair in Stockholm, 2021. The two images of the monoprints prints for Points-4 were initialy part of her last solo exhibition “Post Plastic” 2020 at https://www.ava.co.za/current-exhibitions/elginrustpostplastic
EVIDENCE PRINT MF045 Monotype 40x99 cm 2020
ELGIN RUST / Germany -South Africa Evidence MF045 and Evidence MF046 are part of a body of work produced for Post Plastic a collection of mixed media artworks. Using inflatable objects as her starting point, Rust explores what plastic means for our society in the long run. Armed with a collection of other peoples' “pool party trash”, discarded pool toys such as balls, lilos, armbands, and rings, Rust transforms the disposed of items by applying art processes directly to them, capturing forms what could be termed “post plastic”. Starting point for these 2 large monotype prints was a “lilo” which went through a 3-part printing process to capture the emptied airless residue of the deflated object. In this manner Rust attempts to record a factual truth of the object much like taking a fingerprint for identification purposes- a record of an object that is no longer present. This new truth could be understood as post-truth defined as “a philosophical concept that refers to the disappearance of shared objective standards for truth and the circuitous slippage between facts or alt-facts, knowledge, opinion, belief, and truth”, leading us to question what we know to be the truths around plastic objects and our relationship with our environment.
EVIDENCE PRINT MF046 Monotype 30x99 cm 2020
EMAD ABDEL WAHAB Egypt
EMAD ABDEL WAHAB / Egypt Emad is an Egyptian Visual Artist he began his study at the faculty of fine arts in Alexandria since 1993, then he Graduated in 1998 in the painting department, He completed his studies of art in Italy at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome through receiving the State Prize for Artistic Creativity "Grand Prize of Rome" and obtained a diploma of restoration from the International Institute of Restoration in Rome. He was the first Egyptian Arab artist to perform restoration work at the Vatican Museums. After his return to Egypt, he received his master's degree in philosophy of arts in 2006.He then earned an Egyptian PhD in philosophy of arts in 2014, He participate in the Egyptian contemporary art movement Since the mid-seventies of the twentieth century until now, By holding many individual exhibitions, with works in the field Painting Art, the last of which is , the exhibition "Cup of Roses" Day Art Gallery in Cairo 2018 exhibition "Saffron" Gallery Modern Art Museum in Cairo 2016 "Nile Floors" Gallery Art Smart in Cairo 2016, Exit exhibition at the University Gallery - University of Perugia – Italy 2002 and participation in many collective and nationalism in Egypt Participated in many international forums to represent Egypt with international biennials and exhibitions of contemporary Egyptian art, through which he received many awards, the most important of which was the Painting Prize of the Small Art Works -Center of Art Gallery in Cairo 2005, and many awards at the Youth Salon in different courses in Cairo since 1996, the last of which was the Golden Pyramid Award in 2016.Tunisia Biennale Award for the Third Mediterranean 2004 - Grand Prize "Golden Lighthouse of Alexandria" Alexandria Biennale for Mediterranean countries in its 23 in 2005, and won the State Incentive Award in the field of painting in "The Art of Portrait" Arab Republic of Egypt 2007. Acrylic and Oil color on canvas 140 × 160cm 2019
EMAD ABDEL WAHAB / Egypt THE SHYNESS PELVIC a sign of the duplication of cognitive ideas that do not have credibility in fact and where the judgment is not final (in brackets), which represent the total feelings, feelings and disorders and chaos and the subjective system of fragile values, as most of our ideas in the Arab culture in brackets, The weakening of culture and its weakness indicate weakness in general thinking, causing chaos and disorder and creating new values that have nothing to do with the new world order or the inherited system of values. These values are only rules that the societies put in the mirror and then violate them in secret, living a state of duplication coated with the illusion, which bears the robe of religion and ethics, values and customs, to reveal the extent of the contradiction within them.
Acrylic and Oil color on canvas 140 × 160cm 2019
EMAN EZZAT Egypt
EMAN EZZAT / Egypt She born on 1972, She has a PhD in Philosophy of Art Education 2012. The general coordinator of The International Burullus Symposium For Painting on Walls and Boats (Egypt). Participat in the movement of of the Egyption Fine Arts since 1995. Participated international exhibitions : Krakow, Poland , Bitola , Macedonia , Varna , Bulgaria , Sarajevo , Taiwan , Slovenia , Yemen , Vienna , France , America , China , Italy , Spain , Senegal , Emirates , India , Egypt . She was chosen by the organizers of the Krakow international graphic arts from the African continent in the first exhibition of graphic arts in International Centre of Graphic Arts Poland 2013. 14 solo exhibition . Got The Triennial Prize from iternational print Triennial , EGYPT 2006 - Many awards from the Salon Egyptian youth over the years . Its collections of their works at Egyption Modern Art Museum and International Organization of Krakow , Poland, Taiwan.
SONDOS 1 Acrylic & mixed media on canvas 120Ă—120 cm 2019
EMAN EZZAT / Egypt Nature manifests itself in paintings in diverse ways, open to the freedom of creativity and life itself. It is a quest in time and place and not merely the depiction of a scene governed by a specific purpose and function. It is a very particular nature with which the artist grew with and has become connected, making for an intimate bond with its sky, sea, sun, rocks, soil, birds, flowers and grass. In the spirit of this experience, the paintings open up to nature, immersing in its topography, variations, clear and hidden manifestations, as if it were a permanent stroll, revealing new artistic levels, exhibiting diversity of color, shapes, movement of lines and the formation of light and shadow. What is enriching is that we have here an artist with a distinct presence, capable of inferring the emotional flows, and transforming the appearances and initial impressions into artistic energy, seeking to create a new perception of it through painting. Iman Ezzat does not seek to paint the landscape in a real physical sense, but rather seeks to ‘weave’ the landscape as many of her paintings recall the spirit of textile wall hangings. In these we find the gradation of shapes from the nearest to the furthest, linear and color ripples of a resonant nature. Simultaneously, the sense of time and space is frequently followed by the rhythms that include the painting in its entirety, or through parts of it. Sometimes, this is transformed into an infinite continuous movement that penetrates the pattern of natural relationships and replaces it with an open pattern of the beginnings and ends. This is reinforced by the variety of colors used with their subtle earthy tones and textures; vibrant lush greens, dark browns diluted with silt-like foam, sky-blue emerging from from the sea and cracks of the earth, cotton whites with a gray tinge and sometimes a hint of red, joyful purples and sandy yellow brought in with the tides. There are other colors too that carry the scent of the environment; with its salt and clay, and longings for life to become an ever-renewing scene in nature . By Jamal Al-Qassas
SONDOS 2 Acrylic & mixed media on canvas 120Ă—90 cm 2020
ENAS ELSADIEK Egypt
ENAS ELSADIEK / Egypt Born 1977, Mansoura, Egypt. 2001 Education of Art (Distinction) ranking 9th BA. 2006 Design MA. Elsadiek likes to achieve movement in her work, which happens through growth. Usually, she uses living materials such as bacteria, fungus and algae for her work in order to symbolize the breathing of life. As these materials grow fast and change both their colors and shapes quickly, in an exhibition context. (Exhibitions selected) 2000 5th Cairo International Biennale for Ceramics, Egypt. 2004 Artisti Egiziani Emergenti, Roma, Italy.2004 “In a Furnished Flat in Cairo”, Egypt. 2008 "Town House's work shop video art", New Museum, United States. 2004 “In a Furnished Flat in Cairo”, sponsored by the Arts Council of Switzerland Pro Helvetia, Egypt. 2008 "Basic Motion Cairo", the Town House Gallery, Egypt. 2009 "TAG DER OFFENEN FABRIK”, the Rote Fabrik, Zurich, Switzerland. 2009 “Black and White”, the Rote Fabrik, Zurich, Switzerland. 2009 “My Birthday Cake”, the Rote Fabrik, Zurich, Switzerland. 2009“Mono Print” El-Gezira Art
Center, Egypt. 2010 "Why Not", Palace of Arts, Egypt. 2012, 2013, 2014 show in the Espacio Gallery, London. 2015 "Egyptian Artist", the gallery of the city of library of Pancevo, Serbia. 2016 April Desgin Art“, Mad Art Gallery Milano, Italy. 2016 Dai First Exhibition for Arab Artists“, Dai Gallery, Egypt. 2017 “Love exhibition”, Dai Art Gallery. „The 4th International Burullus Symposium, Painting on Walls and Boats, “Salon International d’art Contemporian“, Carrousal
du Louver, Paris.
I BEG YOU FOR A DINNER Acrylic on canvas 60 X 90 cm 2018
ENAS ELSADIEK / Egypt It is worth mentioning the painting "I beg you for dinner" in which the model sits on the floor in the position of the beggars wearing the blue dress and wrapped in the blue gray ground, which is characterized by cool color and feelings, surrounded by a red shawl and was the source of warmth now in the life of any female is the rigid things that do not breathe with water. She sits waiting for her to share feelings, love or even a dinner meal, and she chose a dinner because it is the last meal of man's day.
As for the painting "Sahar" in which the expression appeared inherent in the blows of brush and color confusion and the expression above the face of the model, appears in front of us the hero of the painting sits in the position of the fetus and includes herself sitting on the ground and she feels it from the ground and to it, Seeking the need that she has lost from her stomping, and the story of a "sahar" painting emanating from loss and deprivation, especially from the other party and partner, the artist says that the model here is touching the fake pleasure of a cigar That is nearing the end, the pleasure ends even if it is false, as well as the broken egg on the ground next to the model, the eggs if broken on the ground spoiled and difficult to use again it is a symbol of the corruption of the relationship and its end is a definite end and proof of lost masculinity. WATCHFULNESS Acrylic on canvas 60 X 90 cm 2018
ESLAM ELNOZAHY Egypt
ESLAM ELNOZAHY / Egypt Egyptian plastic artist, born in Alexandria 1970 Graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in 1994, Department of Printed Design, Division of Flat Printing. He completed studies with diplomas from the International Advertising Association and worked in the field of visual and print advertisements for several Egyptian and international companies in Cairo, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. His works vary between drawing, photography and artistic printing. He participated in group art exhibitions before graduation and after graduation from the mid-nineties until now. Awarded first place in the Ministry of Youth and Sports exhibitions 1994/1995. He participated in his visual plastic works in the Egyptian plastic movement opposing the Ministry of Culture for Youth at the Egyptian Opera House in Cairo and the Palaces of Culture in Alexandria 1994/1997. Group exhibitions in Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates. Various group exhibitions through cyberspace. Public holdings, the Egyptian Ministry of Youth and Sports and the Egyptian Ministry of Culture. Special collections in Cairo, Alexandria, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Italy and Germany. The relationship between organic and engineering What do we feel when you see a circle, a square, a triangle... Are we affected in the same manner and extent when we see something with smooth and curved edges, and when we see something else with sharp angles and specific edges? Lines have connotations and meanings as well as shapes, in addition to their importance as important building blocks of the thinking visions that we form as plastic artists. Shapes have endless types of properties, each of which carries different contents for the recipient, it will be very difficult for us to do an artwork without using shapes, even if the artwork is a single visual paragraph, then we will put it within a form in the work.
Mixed media on paper 42 X29 cm 2020
ESLAM ELNOZAHY / Egypt In what kind of shapes is the artwork built? What do all these shapes say to the recipient? How do we enhance these forms to positively or negatively affect the vision that we are about to deliver?? “ I have found that I can express, in colors and shapes, things that I do not have words to express � (Georgia Kify) Shapes are two-dimensional elements with known frames and borders. They can be open or closed, with angles or curves, large or small. Shapes may be composed of elements of nature or not, and we may find them in free or geometrically regular shapes. Shapes can arise from their colors or from the intersection of lines that form their borders. Simple shapes can be combined to create complex shapes ... and complex shapes can be disassembled into simple shapes. The different characteristics of shapes carry different messages and meanings. The change in these properties of a shape affects how we understand this shape and makes us feel the artwork in a different way. Shapes are an effective communication tool. The basic types of shapes and I call them alphabets of formation Geometric shapes are what most people think of when the word shapes, circles, squares, triangles are mentioned. The shape of a diamond, for example, consists of a group of simple shapes that can be easily recognized. This regularity indicates order, efficiency and effectiveness. It also indicates the structural structure. Geometric shapes tend to symmetry, which indicates arrangement. There are organic shapes, which are not usually regular in nature, but contain many curves, and they are uneven and straight and tend to give a feeling of pleasure and comfort. While they may be manmade as color spots, they tend to resemble and imitate the shapes found in nature such as leaves, rocks. And clouds. In the artwork, organic shapes may be drawn or drawn from photographs, and they may be free and unlimited in one format. There are figures drawn and have a shape that can be recognized, but they are not real because they are abstract and inspired by natural forms, such as the so-called stick man, which is the primitive drawing of the shape of a human being and it is also called the fish skeleton, which is an abstraction of the human form. They are abstract drawings that represent and indicate ideas and concepts. The shapes can be in a positive or negative form, and they may be an element or a background... The recipient must be aware of the negative shapes that result from the composition of the shapes, as they are no less important than the shapes that have a positive form. In fact, there are endless numbers of shapes and combinations of shapes in the artist's works, each of which carries special contents and messages, although the meanings and connotations of shapes are related to culture, and as the forms vary in their compositions. It is an experience that has been formulated in the practice of visual formation during thirty years of reception and culture of all kinds.
Mixed media on paper 42 X29 cm 2020
GALINA PETKOVA Bulgaria
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GALINA PETKOVA / Bulgaria
Born on July 18, 1982 She graduated from Shumen University “Bishop K. Preslavski” in specialty “Pedagogy of Fine Art”. Member of the Society of Shumen Artists. Works in the field of graphics, painting and iconography. Participated in in ‘’Small Forms’ ’biennale in Pleven in 2006-2008, ‘’Graphic Small Format in Sofia in 2006, 2008, 2009 and 2011, Allianz Bulgaria Awards in 2008, 2010. Her international participations are in the Fifth Triennial of Graphics in Sofia in 2007, XV Biennale of Graphics Varna 2009, Small Format Graphics biennale in Romania in 2010.2012,2014, ‘’Graphic Small Format’’ triennial in Lithuania in 2010, ‘’Free hachures’’ one - man exhibition in Shumen in 2013. She is awarded first prize at ‘’World and color’’ Competition in 2006’, and diploma in 2008.
TRANSFORMATION Acrylic on cardboard 70 X 70 см 2020
GALINA PETKOVA / Bulgaria
CONCEPT The purpose of the image is to provoke the viewer by attracting him to inspire an image generated by the visual impact. Abstract images intertwine so that each viewer can see different things in the picture. A provocation for the senses - to unleash your imagination.
Details: TRANSFORMATION Acrylic on cardboard 70 X 70 см 2020
HAMDI ABOUELMAATI Egypt
HAMDI ABOUELMAATI / Egypt Hamdi Abu El-Maati is a symbolic artist who is distinguished by the eloquence of expression and the intensity of meaning. Perhaps this is due to that obscene nature, which is esoteric and hidden, and does not reveal itself until the drawing begins. If we saw it in a way other than the oasis, it would not have turned our mind to what we see in its wild lines and rebellious forms in its void squares. In the past, Hamdi Abu Al-Maati was romantic, very loyal to the color parallel to the emotional event, as that was bleak, and his government remained closed to itself in an entity. Draw. The hierarchical triangle was always its axis, and then it is that mythical bird that always seems to die, and is catalyzed by the moment of death. And when he completed his preparation in the void in one of the halls of the Arts Complex years ago, he seemed to us liberated and freed from the imprisonment of the pyramidal triangle, free in the horizon extending beyond the boundaries of the frame, and he appeared eloquent, and tangible. His hierarchical triangle has been freed from his weight and qualified for flying and for boarding. Rather, his tools that were at the core of his structures have become open, and not connected to their edges, and the lines seemed to us free, indicating a spontaneity split between craft and reason .. And if we are witnessing the completion of his eloquent experience after his return from the time of the mission The door has opened wide, and get ready for the bird's hymn Ahmed Fouad Salim 2001 Ahmed Fouad Selim
WOMEN & BIRD OF LOVE Acrylic on wood 80 X 80 cm 2008
HAMDI ABOUELMAATI / Egypt Dialogues .. Shape and Color Color represents a fundamental value in the works of the artist / Hamdi Abu Al-Maati ... for the dialogue case between the vocabulary of the artwork with other formative elements such as the bird and the woman ... inspired by them from the Egyptian cultural heritage .. whether from ancient Egyptian art or Islamic, as well as Coptic at other times ... indirectly to address the vocabulary of the image. The symbolic dimension of the artist is also evident in his approach to the visual formation .. to reflect the great value of the expression and romantic dimension .. at other times in the image space .. with the aim of sensing a spiritual state reflected by these features with a very special human value of the artistic experience to prove the image spaces of the artist Hamdi Abu Al-Maati. From red to blue, and from turquoise blue to orange and pink..all of them reflect the depth of the color reduction in the space of the visual image .. As each color case expresses a dramatic dimension with a specificity that deepens the design constructions in the entirety of the artistic works of the artist's experience / Hamdi Abu Al-Maati. In the field of photography and drawing.
WOMEN & BIRD IN WINDOW Acrylic on wood 100 X 110 cm 2018
HAMED SAEED Iraq
HAMED SAEED / Iraq Born on Basra, Iraq 1976, Master of Fine Arts / Faculty of Fine Arts / Alexandria University, Arab Republic of Egypt. Member of the Iraqi Plastic Artists Association Member of the Iraqi Artists Syndicate . Member of the Iraqi Assocition of Photography • The organizer of the World Image Project in Iraq - IMAGE OF THE WORLD - IMAGO MUNDI for small businesses in cooperation with the Sarinco Foundation - Italy in cooperation with the Benetton Foundation, a new art project for Iraqi artists, which is the book "The Image of the World" in Italy Cultural and artistic activities and partnerships: • Participation in the Wasiti International Festival in Baghdad in 2010. 2008 Ishtar competition 2010 Ishtar Competition Al-Marbad Poetry Festival in the year (2004-2005-2007-2008-2009-2010-2011-20122013- 02014-2016-2018-2019). Exhibition (Hymns) in Babylon 2011 • Participation in the first and second Basra theater festival as scenography 2012-2013 • Participation in the exhibition agenda in Alexandria 2014 • Participation in the Sumerion exhibition for the Iraqis residing in Egypt 2014 Contemporary Art Exhibition, Ministry of Culture, Baghdad 2016 Emirates Biennial of Fine Art 2016 Annual exhibition of the Iraqi Plastic Artists Association / Basra Branch (2008-2010-20152016-2018) Man and Reality Exhibition (2005-2014) • WAITING Acrylic on canvas 60×50 cm 2020
HAMED SAEED / Iraq Awards and Recognition Certificates: Best scenography award at the Iraqi Theater Festival in Basra in 2012Artist Farouk Hassan prize in the Ishtar competition in Baghdad 2008 Jury prize for the 2010 Ishtar competition First prize for art education teachers in Basra, 2013 Certificate of Appreciation for Al Wasiti International Festival 2010 • Certificate of Appreciation from Al-Mada Foundation for Culture and Arts 2007 • Certificates of Appreciation from the Iraqi Plastic Artists Association. Certificate of Appreciation from the Iraqi Ministry of Culture to participate in the annual Al-Marbad Festival (2009-2010-211-2012-2013) 2016-2018 • Certificate of Appreciation from the Cultural Palace in Basra 2011-2013 • Certificates of Appreciation from the Iraqi Photographers Association • Certificates of appreciation from the education of Basra Governorate Creativity Shield and Certificate of Appreciation from the UAE Ministry of Culture 2016. Certificate of Appreciation from the Iraqi Writers Union 2018. Certificate of appreciation from the Iraqi Kurdistan Artists Association. In general, the artist relies in th implementation of his works on his artistic skill and his ability in what he gained from academic experience in the field of plastic arts to show his best experience to the public with different artistic tastes .. However, we always fall into a network of different visions and reception among the public, and this matter in itself is a positive aspect that pays Forward. In these works the image of a person is embodied in his nationality, whether he is a woman or a man, there is no difference between feelings and thinking, as one of them embodies a man who lies in a restless way, embodying his soul in a colorful expressive method with a transparent technique, just as the woman in the other work does not differ greatly in execution and expression except in the composition of the work and its artistic and intellectual structure , Colors flow in a different way than usual, taking advantage of the nature of the canvas and its surfaces .. The experience is a daily memory of what a person carries of a moral and subjective obsession within the circle of social life. WAITING Acrylic on canvas 60×50 cm 2020
HOWAIDA EL SEBAEE Egypt
HOWAIDA EL SEBAEE / Egypt A visual artist - participates in the Art movement locally and internationally - Professor and Member of the faculty of the Painting Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Alexandria University, Egypt. She held private exhibitions and received many artistic residencies. She participated in video and audio presentations, installation and performing works, and presented artistic activity through a number of artistic workshops. She received a number of grants, awards and certificates of appreciation. She has a number of activities and events, participated in many seminars and conferences, and has a number of published researches and artistic articles. She managed a number of artistic events. Executive Director of the Matrouh International Symposium for Granite Sculpture 2007. Member of the Board of Directors of the Faculty Members Club, Alexandria University 2013. Member of the Jury of the 2013 General Exhibition. Member of the 2015 Youth Salon jury and chairman of the jury of the 30th session of the Salon 2020, member of the jury of the 2018 General Exhibition, Commisseer of the exhibition "Egypt Russia a contemporary vision in Moscow 2015. She has authored books and translated, including a translated book on the artist" Marcel du Champs "2002, and Among the books is a book entitled Postmodern Arts in Egypt and the World 2008, and another book on "Ideology of Transformation in Modern Art" 2010.
HOWAIDA EL SEBAEE / Egypt In light of the changes that prevail in the world, and the ability of these variables to form a prevailing consumer culture parallel to the culture of congestion, social media has become the way to cross over to the new consumer behavior. There is a hypothesis that mass culture inevitably leads to a mass society, where individualism is destroyed and the mass personality is created. . Every consumer is a servant who works for free to produce the mass personality... And this in turn leads to the creation of mentally ill, inhumane men and women who are materialistic, oblivious and prone to low art and lacking monocracy. This is because the mass media affects in the same way on everyone.. the masses are isolated and scattered, as the culture and arts of the elite are excluded and the ability to enjoy the levels of those cultures and arts is lost .The media is also turning towards the type of material that is popular with the masses and is not useful, while ensuring that society is directed to consume what does not produce and produce what does not consume.
INCI KANSU Cyprus
INCI KANSU / Cyprus İnci Kansu is a painter and paper artist based in Cyprus. Worked as an educator, administrator and art advisor for schools. Multi-cultural structure with natural richness and transparency of the light, depth of the shadow of the island fascinates her.Time and memory are active elements in her work; building various layers in two and three dinensional forms,installations.Kansu’s artistic philosophy is based on working and experimenting with selfmade paper from plants and recycling, mostly with collage technic. Has been offered a grant from FULBRIGHT/CASP and participated “Education of Fine Arts Course” and experimented “Papermaking-Paper Art” in USA. As a first paper artist of the island has been avid, advocate, educator of paper art, papermaking; delivering over fifty conferences,workshops in Cyprus and abroad. Has been Commissar at 3th Asia- Europe Arts Biennial 1990 - Ankara. Also submitted papers on the topic of “The Aesthetics of the Colour Red” at IAA XVII in 2007, Ankara-Turkey and on “Aesthetics and Nature” at and XIX World Congress of Aesthetics in 2013, Krakow-Poland, where the CUPRUM series were also exhibited. Kansu holds several awards and is an active member of IAPMA among other international art associations and was first president of the Cyprus Paper Artists Association. She regularly contributes to international congress and juried exhibitions around the world and has had numerous solo and group exhibitions. She participated in many congress-exhibitions organized by IAPMA.
BEE’S BOOK 1 Paper pulp from local plants, recycled world map, newspaper and metal mesh 51 X 65 cm 2016
INCI KANSU / Cyprus BEE’S BOOK 1 For this Project “BEE’S BOOK 1”. “BEES BOOK 2” I used local plant fibers pulp and recycled world map, newspaper strips collages with light and shadow layers which are always in my work. From ancient cultures until today Bees has a life saver role in humans life. Our World is lossing a lot of the exist bees each year, mainly because of agri- cultural chemicals. So, we are in the middle of an environmental holocaust that threatens us, because without pollination by bees most plants and some of our’s and some animal’s food supply are gone.
BEE’S BOOK 2
For this Project “BEE’S BOOK 1”. “BEES BOOK 2” I used local plant fibers pulp and recycled world map, newspaper strips collages with light and shadow layers which are always in my work. From ancient cultures until today Bees has a life saver role in humans life. Our World is lossing a lot of the exist bees each year, mainly because of agri- cultural chemicals. So, we are in the middle of an environmental holocaust that threatens us, because without pollination by bees most plants and some of our’s and some animal’s food supply are gone.
BEE’S BOOK 2 Paper pulp from local plants, recycled world map, newspaper and metal mesh 51 X 65 cm 2015
ISMET TATAR Cyprus
ISMET TATAR / Cyprus İsmet Tatar is a painter and paper artist based in Cyprus. Tatar’s work includes 2-dimensional organic and mix-media materials and 3-dimensional installations. Tatar has been teaching and developing paper-making skills through inspiration gathered from the customs and traditions of Cyprus. She produces paper from the natural plants grown in her garden as well as locally gathered recycled materials. Her recent work takes up subjects of “Earth/Land” as a way to record and reflect on notions of change and the relationship between humans and the land they inhabit. She is a member of IAPMA (The International Association of Hand Papermakers and Paper Artists) and co-founder of the Cyprus Paper Artist Association. She regularly contributes to international congresses and juried exhibitions around the world. She has had numerous solo and group exhibitions home and abroad. Her works are part of public and private collections. Avards: “Saküder Special Art Avard” 2017, Ankara - Turkey “Special Juri Mention”, X1. Florance International Biennial of Contemporary Art - Italy “Honorable Mention”, Amateras Annual Mini Paper Art Exhibition 2011, Sofya – Bulgaria www.ismettatar.com
SACRED SOIL (EARTH) Handmade paper from plants 50 x 100 cm 2011
ISMET TATAR / Cyprus Since a certain period of time I have been producing works whose themes are “soil” related. This is also due to the fact that I am affected by the social and political problems in Cyprus. In this project, I am trying to find out why “soil” is important to people by using different techniques of re-production (transformation) at my works. First, I did a series of interviews with refugees who had to leave their land (soil). I tried to understand their feelings. Then I started to look more carefully to where I was stepping on, to the “soil” and I was very impressed with its fabulous color and texture. What is the relationship between human being and the soil (land)? How is a sense of land ownership? What kind of thing is soil (land) that makes people dependent to it? My grandmother used to say; could human being be landless? With these questions, I am trying to explain “the soil”, by producing papers from plants provided to us by earth and by taking the advantage of earth’s mysterious texture and color. SACRED SOIL (EARTH) Handmade paper from plants on canvas 50x50cm 2011
KADIE SCHMIDT-HACKENBERG Germany
KADIE SCHMIDT-HACKENBERG / Germany Kadie Schmidt-Hackenberg was born 1968 in Ludwigsburg, Germany. She studied Design and Art at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Hanover and graduated 1998. 2001 she got a degree in Multimedia Design at Cimdata, Berlin. Since 2001 she is working as an artist and freelance illustrator. She hold several teaching assignments for drawing and digital art at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Hanover and displays her artworks in exhibitions in Germany and abroad. After a long period spent in Paris and several years in Berlin, the artist has now returned to live and work in Hanover. I have been dealing with the “city” as a topic for many years. For me, cities are not just more or less planned juxtapositions of houses. I perceive them as huge, living organisms. They have a soul. They grow, change, and eventually die. But, above allthey have a relationship with their inhabitants. I imagine cities falling in love with individual people. Sometimes the exact opposite happens. The foreign city temporarily appears mysterious and intimidatingly beautiful to the visitors, at the same time remaining unapproachable and impregnable. The new and unfamiliar become the projection surface for individual desires and dreams, from which unfamiliar concepts can emerge from one’s own life. My cityscapes are narrative works based on such ideas of merging and repulsion. Digging a little deeper, an ancient feeling of homelessness repeatedly returns in my work. Formally speaking, my photographs are taken at the beginning of the work process. I’ve taken them on my travels. At home, I then crop bits of buildings that I digitally edit and merge with drawings and painterly structures into large-format digital collages.
DARK MATTER Digital artwork 78x110 cm 2017
KADIE SCHMIDT-HACKENBERG / Germany I have been dealing with the “city” as a topic for many years. For me, cities are not just more or less planned juxtapositions of houses. I perceive them as huge, living organisms. They have a soul. They grow, change, and eventually die. But, above allthey have a relationship with their inhabitants. I imagine cities falling in love with individual people. Sometimes the exact opposite happens. The foreign city temporarily appears mysterious and intimidatingly beautiful to the visitors, at the same time remaining unapproachable and impregnable. The new and unfamiliar become the projection surface for individual desires and dreams, from which unfamiliar concepts can emerge from one’s own life. My cityscapes are narrative works based on such ideas of merging and repulsion. Digging a little deeper, an ancient feeling of homelessness repeatedly returns in my work. Formally speaking, my photographs are taken at the beginning of the work process. I’ve taken them on my travels. At home, I then crop bits of buildings that I digitally edit and merge with drawings and painterly structures into large-format digital collages.
SILKY-MOMENTS Digital artwork 120 x180 cm 2020
MAHA ALHAZZANI / Saudi Arabia
MAHA ALHAZZANI / Saudi Arabia Bachelor of Technical Education, King Saud University Master of Technical Education King Saud University Director of external exhibitions and events at the Faculty of Design and Arts at Princess Noura Bint AbdulRahman University to date Art galleries: (UNITED NATIONS-symbol of life, freedom & happiness) Intercontinental Art Exhibition Jeddah House Of Aramco Historical Museum 21-23 November 2019 Contemporary Saudi Art Exhibition in Paris at Artcurial Hall 2016 Contemporary Saudi Art Exhibition in Cannes at The Croisette Hall in Majestic 2016 Saudi Contemporary Art Exhibition 2015 The 37th Exhibition of Students and Faculty of King University Saud.2015 6th Exhibition of Fine Artists of the Ministry of Culture and Information 2015 The exhibition accompanying the fifth scientific meeting at King Saud University The exhibition accompanying the 5th Scientific Conference at the Al-Inter Hotel in Riyadh under the Ministry of Education 2014 2009 Ambassador's Plastic Competition at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Abu Dhabi 2007 Art Abu Dhabi International Fine Art Exhibition 2005 Foreign Ministry Ambassador's Plastic Competition 2005 Saudi Calligraphy Fine Art Exhibition.
THAT'S ME Acrylic colors on canvas 100 X 100
MAHA ALHAZZANI / Saudi Arabia Organizing exhibitions and forums: Organizing the first art forum of the Saudi Society of Art and Design 2017 Organizing an art workshop between the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh and the Saudi Society of Art and Design at Princess University Noura Bint AbdulRahman by Helen Zgheib (Drawing using the colors of Gouache) The Organization of the Eve Exhibition at The Kingdom Tower in collaboration with Galerie Hawar and Princess Noura Bint Abdul Rahman University On the occasion of International Women's Day. Organizing a workshop between the Saudi Society of Art and Design at Princess Noura Bint AbdulRahman University and Organizing a workshop between the Saudi Society of Art and Design and the U.S. Embassy for Growing Thunder American women specialized in the art of handicrafts and the art of sewing clothing for American Indians. More than80 art exhibitions, events and seminars were held at Princess Noura Bint AbdulRahman University The International Children's Exhibition in Romania in collaboration with Inter-Art Aiud Romania
CERTAINTY Wood and Acrylic colors on canvas 100 X 100 cm
MEDHAT NASR Egypt
MEDHAT NASR / Egypt International exhibitions Alexandria Biennale, 12th, 13th , 19th and 22nd Editions – The exhibition of Alexandrian Artists, Cyprus and Romania – Exhibition of Artists of the Republic, Casablanca - India Biennale for Contemporary Carving Art, 1982 – Biennale of Venice, the 41st International Edition, 1984 – International Biennale of Norway for Graphics, 1986.1988 – International Graphics Triennale, 8th Edition, Germany, 1987 – Ljubljana International Graphics Biennale 1987,1989 – Cairo Biennale 1988 – The Arab Cultural Week’s exhibition, London, 1988 – Contemporary Carving Exhibition, Rome, 1989, 1991 – The Egyptian Cultural Week, Amman, 1989 – Contemporary Carving Exhibition, Kuwait 1990 – Carving Exhibition, Rome, 1991 – Carving Exhibition, Mexico 1992 – Johannesburg Biennale (the first in the field of carving), 1994 – Exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts, Rome, 1994 - Carving Triennale, Cairo, 1997, 2000, 2003 – Carving Biennale, Bangladesh, 1997 - Egypt's Second International Triennale for Graphics, 1997 – Carving Biennale, Japan (Sapporo), 1998 – Exhibition of Contemporary Egyptian Art, Granada, 1999 – The Plastic Art Exhibition of Egypt, Belgium, 1999 – The Plastic Art Exhibition of Contemporary Egyptian Art, Riyadh, 2000 – Exhibition of Youth Welfare, Saudi Arabia, 2000 – Sharjah Biennale, 2001 - Pioneer and contemporary Fair of Sharjah, 2001 – Exhibition of cultural exchange between Alexandria and Cyprus, 2001 - Exhibition of Turkey, 2001 – Plastic Art Exhibition, Germany, 2001 - Exhibition of Egyptian Plastic Art, Accra, Ghana, 2001 – Book Art Triennale, Lithuania, 2003 - Exhibition of The Book Art Fair, Frankfurt International Book Fair, 2004 – Sarcelle Carving Biennale, France, 2005 – Contemporary Egyptian Art Exhibition, Muscat, 2006 – Exhibition of the Autumn Salon, Paris, 2008 – The Egyptian Contemporary Art Exhibition, London, 2009 – Contemporary Egyptian Art Exhibition, Boushahri Hall, Kuwait, 2010 – Lithography symposium, Academy Tiida Holm, Sweden, 2010 – International Exhibition for Digital Print, l’Atelier d’Alexandrie, 2011 – AlMarkhiya Gallery, Doha, 2013
COMPOSITION Mixed media print 160 X 110 cm 2010
MEDHAT NASR / Egypt Medhat Nasr is one of those rare graphic artists, who were faithful to that art, granted all their artistic career. We can safely say that he became a sole “chirpy” along the hard path where most of contemporary graphic artists, in Egypt, have deserted towards painting or drawing in as much its complex technologies … and the lack of appreciation on the connoisseur side. The artists had baldly embarked valuable experiment in graphic art which has been enlisted among contemporary arts, through his achievements in installations (spatial processing) and the artist’s book where the graphic art had played the most important role through manipulation and tackling various surfaces, solids and backgrounds of such artworks. He has been always keen to develop his techniques, paying full attention to the rapprochement between various genres and forms of art by today’s arts. Nasr was also keen to take his artworks out of multi versions and reproductions trends. Most of his works are of single copy or two, the matter that they kept their uniqueness and scarcity. He achieved, in his artistic multi track endeavor, a scarce harmonization between human implications, skilled technologies and supreme sensitivity. Actually, he maintained that effort without any overwhelming due to experimental ascendance or the appeal of technological supremacy. The artistic career of Medhat Nasr is so surprising..!! He remained contented, in a rare fidelity, perseverance, love and elegance exerting his utmost effort for his artistic endeavor, so much he quit his job as a professor at the Graphic Department – Faculty of Fine Arts – Alexandria University, to be fully devoted to his art.
COMPOSITION Mixed media print 80 X 110 cm 2010
MOATAZ EL SAFTY Egypt
MOATAZ EL SAFTY / Egypt He born in 1969, He lives and work in Alexandria – Egypt, in 2005 till 2012 he was a Curator and Art Director at Atelier of Alexandria a group of artists and writers, in 2007 He initiative and founded EAN group for international artistic cooperation, in 2020 he Created and published on web the VAS virtual art space, in 2014 he was Co-curator with Dr. Oriano Mabellini in Image of the world IMAGO MUNDI’ project, for Egyptian contemporary. Also he did this event in Nigeria, Liberia, Yemen and Iraq. In 2007, 2014, 2017 Curator of POINTS, international exhibition for visual arts, in Egypt, in 2012 he is Founder and curator the AAW international artists workshop for young artists, He is Curator of Atelier of Alexandria at BJCEM biennale for young artist from Europe and Mediterranean, 2006 and 2008 he is Co Founder and Co curator with Reem Hassan in AAW international artists workshop, in 2006 / 2007 he’s co-curator in RAMI workshop with ECM – Marseille, SHAMS – Beirut, Azzurro Studio – Milan, in 2019 he participated in black and white exhibition in Atelier Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, He shows his artworks in some one man show exhibitions in 2020 Retrospective exhibition “ Impression from Impressive “ at VAS virtual art space, in 2004 One man show – Video art “ Under separate cover “- Al Gezira Center – Cairo, in 2002 One man show – Collage and istallation - Akhnaton Gallery – Cairo and 1999 One Man Show – Installation and painting - Akhnation Gallery - Cairo. LAYERS 90 X 90 cm Acrylic on canvas 2016
MOATAZ EL SAFTY / Egypt From 1992 to 2000 I used symbols and paintings of pharaonic sculptures as a metaphor for this great civilization. I tried to present it from a perspective different from those who preceded me. This approach was purely symbolic and distant from realism, in an attempt to present a new vision in tackling this civilization. For this reason, my visual art work relied on the strength of design and idea derived from this form of art. I used different materials in installation works, some of which were displayed at the 8th edition of Cairo International Biennale, where I focused on highlighting the spirit of this civilization and expressing my eagerness to restore this strength and glory. At this phase, I transitioned gradually from visual to composite work.
From 2001 to 2005, my artwork was motivated by another subject and field, that is humanity and its various and fundamental influences in forming any society. I was concerned with how it kept on crashing and breaking in the face of changing global politics, so my video art works aimed to express such concepts as war and peace in the video “life is like a coin”, and women’s attempts to break free from the constraints of society in “under a separate cover”, in addition to the ideas of the generation that will follow and how they will view this century which will become part of human history in “modern civilization”. My dreams for the future were featured in a video entitled “dreams”, and lastly, I discussed changes that will affect weak developing countries’ societies either by nature or force in the video “Change”. Although my experience resulted in several video artworks, oil painting was always present, as I introduced many paintings based on projections of nature and its effects on our lives, and the changes it causes to different surfaces and how they translate in different colored spaces. GET OUT OF BLACK 100h X 100w cm Acrylic on canvas 2020
MOHAMED ABOU ELNAGA Egypt
MOHAMED ABOU ELNAGA / Egypt Mohammed Abou El Naga is a multidisciplinary visual artist, art professor, curator and developer. Throughout his colourful career, he created award winning art projects, assisted his community and brought up new generation of young artists with his teaching, workshop and his multitude of practices. Born in the Egypt, Abouelnaga graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts and completed his PhD in Philosophy of Art from Alexandria University. He was the first Middle Eastern artist to receive a grant from the Japan Foundation to study the arts of papermaking.
At Cairo University, he teaches painting using nontraditional techniques that integrate different materials with the imaging and printing methods. He is also driven to the use of raw environmentally friendly and recycled materials as he believes “it is a way of an aesthetic and a functional re-thinking opening a gateway of seeing objects from new perspectives�.
KOM GHORAB Mixed media on canvas 120 X 100 cm 2020
MOHAMED ABOU ELNAGA / Egypt He had solo shows in Egypt and around the world that varied between painting, video and installation, such as Borusan Kultur Ve Sanat Association, Istanbul, Turkey (1997), Townhouse Gallery, Cairo (2000) and Art Academy, Rome (2000). He was also part of numerous group exhibitions including the 23rd Book Art (2003), Guest of Honor in Festival de Popoli del Mediterraneo, Sicily (2005), Festival Mondial des Arts Nègres, Dakar (2006), What Happens Now?, Art Palace (2007) and most recently in Exile, Art Centre Silkeborg Bad, Denmark (May, 2009). Abouelnaga also represented Egypt in the Venice Biennial 2002 and received the First Prize of the Alexandria Biennial in 2001. His recent exhibition also includes: “Exile” at Art Centre SilkeBorgBad (Denmark) 2009, “Building Bridges”, Art Center, Mexico (2011, “Egyptian Art”, Gallery Art Space, Dubai, “African Art Mojo Gallery, Dubai (2013), “Hay Carriers” at Markheya Gallery, Doha (2013), “Soad Hosny”, at Janet Rady Fine Art, London, 2013. He recently received the first price for his Video Art Cairo 11 from Danube Video Art Festival in Austria. Abou El Naga was the curator of Qatar Visual Art Center. He created in 2002 the biggest and most successful Artist Book Biennial in the Alexandria Bibliotheca. Entitled “Imagining the Book”. In 2009, he was assigned by the Egyptian Ministry of Culture to become the curator of the 25th Alexandria Biennial for Mediterranean Countries. In 2011, he was the curator of Sharjah Children Art Biennial. El Naga recently participated at the TransCultural Exchange conference in Boston.
KOM GHORAB Mixed media on canvas 180 X 100 cm 2020
MOHAMED EDRES Egypt
MOHAMED EDRES / Egypt 1970 callography: Advanced studies under Shiekh Mustafa Saad, advisor of Arab 1989-1991: Evening studies at Alexandria Atelier under the supervision of Dr. Farouk Wahbah, former president of Egyptian Arts Academy- Rome - Italy. 1989-1992: Miscellaneous practices at Painting House of Dr.Mohammed Shaker, Dean of the College of Fine Arts-Alexandria - Egypt. 1993: Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Alexandria (suma cum laude) -Egypt. 1995: Designer for Islamic Cover- Egypt. 2006: Art Director of Arab Callography for Tromple 'oile (Wall Painting)-RiyadhK.S.A. Prizes: 1980-1985:Five testimonies for Arab callography- Egypt. 1990: Art Scholarship for Italy sponsored by the minister of education Mr.Farouk Husni. 1991: Encouragement prize by the Fourth Youth Saloon -Al-Jazeera - Cairo- Egypt. 1992: The first prize for Oil Painting -The Fifih Youth Gallery -Zamalek - Caino Egypt. Local Exhibitions : 1990: The Second Atelier Group Gallery -Alexandria Atelier- Egypt. 1990: The Second Youth Gallery -The Nile Hall-CairoEgypt. 1991: The Third Youth Gallery -The Nile Hall -Cairo -Egypt. 1991: The Fourth Youth Gallery -Alexandria Atelier- Egypt. 1992: The Alexandrite Masterpieces in the world Gallery -Fine Ants Museum Egypt. 1993: The Fifth Youth Gallery -Ekhnatoon Hall -Egypt. 1993: Graduation Gallery -Fine Ants Museum -Alexandria -Egypt. ---Contribution to one of Mollawwan Gallery - Jeddah -K.S.A. International Exhibitions: 1993: Plastic Ant Gallery -Frankfurt -Germany. 1993: Modern Egyptian Art Gallery - Mexico. 1998: Moderm Art Gallery -Armenia. 2006: The Artist's First Gallery (The Intimacy of Characters)Lahdh Hall-Riyadh Private Collection from: Cairo - Egypt. Alexandria Egypt. Tanta- Egypt. Riyadh-k.S.A Germany.
ALEXANDERIA THE SEA 2 Acrylic on canvas 100Ă—80 Cm
MOHAMED EDRES / Egypt For me, Drawing and Painting is a lifestyle! I wake up daily every morning or earlier, Reflecting on the sky watching sun rise Fascinated by the collected clouds while they are being colored by the golden rays of the sunlight. Following the degree of light and shadow all day Early in the morning, till sunset while the color is changing to a fascinating crimson light out of the sunset and finally when it becomes dark Every moment during the day, and every view during the night is a new Artistic idea for me that I am aspiring to embody History, civilizations, heavenly messages, and the sound of the caller to the Prayers in the Eastern cities, all those factors are calling me to record them in my paintings Drawing for me is a personal record that enables me to discover the unseen of me through painting and drawing Artistic craft for me is not something easy and when it comes to imagination, I do not accept the easiest solutions Every project for me is a brainstorming process, recalling my experience and reflecting upon the universe to express the environment in an informed and challenging style. I consider every drawing as a major influencer for the audience to let him reflect upon his soul and regain his inspiration Muhammad Idris Contemporary Plastic Artist Faculty of Fine Arts, Alexandria University (1993) ALEXANDERIA THE SEA 1 Acrylic on canvas 60Ă—60 cm
MOHAMED NABIL ABDELSALAM Egypt
MOHAMED NABIL ABDEL-SALAM / Egypt Graduated in graphic department of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Menia University, 1999. MA in graphic, 2005. Member of the Fine Artists Association . The Group of Artists and Writers , Alexandria Atelier . Al-Ghoury Artists Society. Instructor at Graphic Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Menia University, 2000. Assistant teacher at graphic department of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Menia University, 2005. (First Experiment) exhibition at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Menia University, 1997. (Motives and Creations), exhibition at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Menia University, 1998. (Egyptian Tale), at Anfoushy Cultural Palace, 2000. (Three Axis), the Ministry of Youth, 2001. Travelling exhibition of the General Authority of Cultural Palaces, 2004. At the French Cultural Center, Cairo 2006 . At the French Cultural Center, Alexandria 2006 . At Alexandria Atelier, December 2008 .
CONFIGURE Lithographic printing 50 Ă— 70 cm 2020
MOHAMED NABIL ABDEL-SALAM / Egypt
Workshop of Alexandria –Marcella, among activities of Napole International Biennale, 2005. The International workshop at Alexandria Atelier, November 2006 . Honorary prize for graphic, the Fourth Egypt International Print Triennale, 2003. Among collections of art lovers in Egypt and USA. The Ministry of Culture. Contemporary Graphic Museum, (under construction). CASTELLO DEI PALEOLOGI Museum, Aqua-Terumo, Italy. Alexandria Library. Menia University. The Faculty of Fine Arts in Menia.
CONFIGURE Lithographic printing 50 × 70 cm 2020
MONA ABDELKARIM Egypt
MONA ABDELKARIM / Egypt Mona AbdelKarim graduated in the department of English, Faculty of Alsun, Ain Shams University, in 2001. Afterwards, she had a diploma in Translation and Interpretation from the AUC, and a 2-year post graduate diploma in Cultural Development from Cairo University. Exhibitions Mona has had two solo exhibitions as well as 12 national and international exhibitions. Following is a list. Solo Exhibitions Colours of India, “AlwanulHind” Egyptian Center for International Cultural Cooperation, 2018. AlGhitany, Hares AlMadina, AlGhitany, Cairo’s Guardian, an exhibition organized in cooperation between the Cultural development Fund and Akhbar El-Adab newspaper commemorating the Novelist Gamal AlGhitany, 2015. Joint Exhibitions Theater in a Photo, Hanager Center for Arts, 2019. Sunrise Sunset, Russian Cultural Center, 2008. Environment – Music library –opera House 2008 Abstract- Egyptian Center for International cooperation Dec 2008 Our Beautiful Egypt, Cairo Opera House, 2007. In Love of Photography, Indian Cultural Center, 2006. In Love of Photography, Ibn Sina Language School, 2006. First Portsaid Festival for Photography, Portsaid, 2006. Islamic Architecture Art, ElSawy Cultural Wheel, 2006. Ramadaniat, Cairo Opera House, 2006. Perspective International Exhibitions Glimpses of the Islamic World, South Korea, 2006. Photography Festival in the Arab Photographers Union, Germany, 2006. Awards The Red Color Competition, organized by the British Council in Cairo in World AIDS Day. Mother Tree project – Series 1 (Threads of time-1) Printed on Photo paper 50 X 70 cm 2020
MONA ABDELKARIM / Egypt Mona AbdelKarim is a Cairo-based Photographer and Editor. She is the Editor of Sawtulhind Magazine, the official magazine issued by the Embassy of India, Cairo, Egypt. She is also the Embassy’s official photographer, photographing “India by the Nile” Festival in all its annual occurrences. In the cultural field, Mona was a member of the Supreme Council, Fine Arts Committee. She was also a member of the Egyptian Salon of Photography. She was selected as the official critic of Luxor Painting Symposium in the tenth and eleventh editions, 2017 and 2018. Furthermore, she worked as an instructor for two subjects: Editing Arabic skills, and Translation, in the American University in Cairo. Mona has been an art editor . She offers a criticism as well as interviews with artists based in Egypt and the MENA region for different newspapers and magazine. She has been in charge of fine arts section in Akhbar Aladab weekly newspaper since 2012 . Mona started writing journalistic articles much earlier, though. She has been both a writer and photographer since 1999, even before her graduation. Mona’s passion is the sole motive and catalyst in every step she takes. Although she is interested in all fields of photography, her main passion, and thus focus, is more on visual arts, people, folklore and texture. She thinks it is meaningful to view the world from a camera's lens. Mona is aspiring to more exposure nationally and internationally. She is looking forward to recognition as a photographer as well as a fine arts critic. She has on-going projects as well as future planned projects. One of her on-going projects is Egyptian Men of Words, which is a photographic documentation of Egypt’s contemporary novelists and poets, the first of whom, she has already documented in an exhibition, AlGhitany. Another project she is looking forward to is an exhibition linking between the Egyptian and the Indian cultures through photographs exhibiting performance arts in the two cultures. MOTHER TREE PROJECT – SERIES 1 (THREADS OF TIME-2) Printed on Photo paper 50 X 70 cm 2020
MONA ELIWA Egypt
MONA ELIWA / Egypt Assistant Professor, Department of Painting Faculty of Fine Arts, Alexandria University. Diploma in sculpture from the College of Fine Arts ... I got a master's degree and a doctorate in mural painting and an assistant professor's degree in 2013. Member of the Fine Artists Syndicate Member of the Alexandria Atelier for Artists and Writers. Member of the Arab Society for Islamic Civilization and Arts. Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Technical Sector of the National Star Online Newspaper. She received many certificates of appreciation and medals. The most recent of which is the second international prize, painting from the ASREA Foundation (Rome), Italy 2019. inaugurate many private exhibitions inside and outside Egypt, in Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Dubai and Italy. She also participated in many local and international conferences. inaugurate many seminars in Alexandria. A group of artists participated in documenting the digging of the Suez Canal in June 2015.
Wood, Azmald, Geraniolit, Opalin and Polyester 80 X 60 cm 2008
MONA ELIWA / Egypt Represented Egypt in many international forums. Head of the delegation of female artists participating in the Siwa ceremony, Authority of Cultural Palaces 2016. Supervising and discussing many MA and PhD theses in the Faculties of Fine Arts and Applied Arts. Held and participated in many artistic workshops inside and outside Egypt. Member of the jury in the artistic competition at the Arab Women Conference, October 2018. Member of the jury for the ship exhibition in Alexandria. October 2015 CE. Collectibles in the Ministry of Culture, Museum of Modern Art, Faculty of Fine Arts, Minia University, Museum of the Faculty of Fine Arts in Alexandria, and a mural at the Consulate of the State of Kuwait in Alexandria in 2011 . Collectibles of the Galad Museum, Jordan. And the Talal Zahid Museum in Saudi Arabia 2015 and 2019. Collectibles with the Farsi Foundation for the Care of Culture and Arts in Jeddah in 2009. Private holdings of many individuals inside and outside the Arab Republic of Egypt. Many mural works were carried out on the facades of some architectural installations inside Egypt.
Wood, Porcelain, Marble and Seashells 110 X 70 cm 2008
MOOSA OMAR Oman
MOOSA OMAR / Oman He has participated and led numerous workshops and is a member of the International Plastic Art Association (U.N.E.S.C.O), the Omani Society for Fine Arts, the Cultural club and the Youth Studio, Oman. Among his honours are awards from Australia, Oman, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait. Moosa Omar’s work is held in several important collections in Oman as well as in Qatar, Egypt, Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia. Notable collectors in Oman are the Diwan of the Royal Court, General Organization of Sports and Cultural Activities, Ministry of Information, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Culture and Heritage, The Omani Society for Fine Arts, Bait Al Zubair Museum, The Cultural Club, The British Embassy and Shangrl-la's Barr Al Jissah Resort & Spa. Outside Oman his work is featured in collections of the Qatar Museum for Contemporary Arabic Art, Cairo Museum of Contemporary Graphics, Bangladesh Shilpokala Academy, Bengal Foundation Gallery of Fine Arts, Expo China , and I.S.E.S.C.O. Modren Musem Kwuait , Visual Art Center Qater , Opera House Muscat , Girls Creativity Centre Qater ,R.C.A. Club Muscat , O.N.J.D. Morocco . Ludvig Academy Kendlimajor Hungary . Ahmed Al SharqwiSociety for Fine Arts , AbiJaad Morocco , State Art Gallery of Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, Oman Film Society ,Eastern Region Council for Social Responsibility - Al-Ahsa Saudi Arabia , National Museum Muscat , and other international and local private collections.
DREAMING FLOWERS (1) 150X94 cm Acrylic on jute 2019
MOOSA OMAR / Oman Moosa Omar is a mixed media artist whose works reflect elements and stories from daily life and mirror his traditional Omani roots. He uses symbols and motifs, colours and textures to produce his own distinct narrative. He has held over 15 solo exhibitions In Oman, Bahrain and Egypt and Kwuait and Qater and Abu Dhabi and Germeny , He has traveled and exhibited widely across the globe; participating in shows in several European countries, the USA and Mexico, Turkey, Iraq, Pakistan, India, Algeria, Morocco, Taiwan, Lebanon, Australia, South Korea, Egypt, Japan, Jordan, Syria, Bangladesh, China, and the Arabian Gulf. Notable exhibitions include shows at The White House – USA, The Indira Ghandi National Centre for Arts – India, National Art Gallery Shilpakala Academy Dhaka and Bangladesh National Museum – Bangladesh, Centre of Fine Art Berlin – Germany, National Centre for Performing Arts – China, O.N.S.C.O Beirut – Lebanon, U.N.E.S.C.O Paris and the Institute du Monde l’Arab, Paris – France, Palace of Culture – Algeria, Palace of Arts El Gezeira and Museum of Modern Egyptian Arts - Egypt, Korea International Library, The Olympic Museum – Switzwerland and the Olympic Museum – Australia, Museum of Modern Bagdad- Iraq, Taipei Fine Art Museum – Taiwan, Bait Al Zubair Museum and Bait Muzna Gallery – Oman – Museum of Art Tunisia .
DREAMING FLOWERS (2) 150X80 cm Acrylic on jute 2019
MOSTAFA ISSA Egypt
MOSTAFA ISSA / Egypt Doctor of Philosophy in Fine Arts / Painting he worked at the Ministry of Culture in Egypt, then at the Ministry of Culture in Qatar, and worked in the Visual Arts Center for thirteen years as a professor of drawing and painting, as well as organizing seven international seminars in the aesthetics and criticism of contemporary arts, then editing and presenting books on seminars and their research. He participated in nearly 200 group exhibitions in Egypt and abroad. Completed fifteen special exhibitions. These include "Aesthetics of Dream," "Body Burrs," and "A Stainless Country."He participated in international workshops and forums in Egypt and Doha, including the Luxor International Symposium of Photography. I am interested in researching the issues and aesthetics of contemporary art and presenting my point of view in specialized research of nearly thirty papers, of which seventeen have been published in books specialized in the criticism of contemporary art, in Cairo, Alexandria, Doha, Sharjah, Yemen, Tunisia, and Morocco, as well as writing a text on the great late Abdul Hadi Al-Jazzar for publishing his own book in partnership with others. I have completed the book “Dream in Contemporary Egyptian Art” and a book on the great artist Ahmed Nawar entitled “Nawar and the Will of a Nation - Levels of Artistic Experience in Ahmed Nawar”, from the publications of the Dhay Al Arab Gallery of Contemporary Art, and the book “Fitna Al Mukawari - a study of the roots of the artistic act” is under publication. ". Battana Publishing Corporation, Cairo and Dubai. He won the grand prize in the Port Said International Biennial, the first prize in the small pieces competition, and the first prize in the Egypt Future competition IN DOHA Acrylic colors, white glue, handmade paper paste, gypsum, white cement, coloured oxide, boards, photocopy picture, Wood, pastel colours on a wooden plane. 120 X 120 CM - 2013
MOSTAFA ISSA / Egypt in the sense of experience The biography of the homeland is inseparable from the person who lives in it, it is a captivating place and loaded at all times with visible and invisible details, and then it seemed that the situation was equal through this human reservoir that we constantly exchange between us and the places in which we live. In the course of the walls there are fingerprints that we leave behind, and one of us may need diligence in describing them as a value that cannot be ignored. So, in my view, art becomes a free space for sharing those feelings and visions with others. It is an acquisition of my life that we all pass through so that the artist remains the one who is able to redeem those things between mere and definite, into an aesthetic space where the visible and the invisible meet. I call the latter “The Hidden�, because there is something constantly present in a distance between our imaginations and a life action, perhaps embodied in a work of art. In my experience of "a stainless homeland" there is a proposition that is totally free from familiar ties with the image, to be biased from the state of the wall, as the bearer of the captivating idea that brings together the past and the present in an aesthetic framework. With regard to technology, it combines various materials outside the context of the familiar colored materials, in order to embody a physical state that carries within its aesthetic elements this human sense that inhabits me a lot, and which often "travels with me" according to the description of the artist and critic Amal Nasr. IN DOHA Acrylic colors, white glue, handmade paper paste, gypsum, coloured oxide, boards, photocopy picture, printed cloth pastel colours on a wooden plane. 160 X 160 CM - 2013
MUTAZ ELEMAM Sudan
MUTAZ ELEMAM / Sudan He born and raised in Kassala in the Eastern region of Sudan until he went to Khartoum to study Fine Arts at the Sudan University of Science and Technology. Between 2003 and 2007 he worked in Art Therapy at the Grace Child Care Organization in Khartoum, an establishment that lodges and teaches young survivors of wars and adverse social circumstances until they reach the age of adolescence. He currently lives and works in Cairo, Egypt. His artistic practice encompasses painting, drawing, mixed media and collage. He has participated in numerous solo and collective exhibitions regionally and internationally the most recent of which were: Solo exhibitions : 2019 - July , Dream scape from the River , shazar Art gallery , Naples , Italy 2018, dec - Elusive beauty, Ubuntu Art Gallery, Cairo, Egypt 2017 The River, Ubuntu Gallery, Swan Lake, Egypt 2016 , dec - Unyielding River, Ubuntu Art Gallery, Cairo, Egypt 2015 Mutaz Elemam, Alexandria Fine Art Museum, Alexandria, Egypt 2015 Selfie, Cordoba Gallery, Cairo, Egypt 2014 Sound Interpretations, Gallery Misr, Cairo, Egypt 2013 CMYK, Tache Art Gallery, Cairo, Egypt 2011 CO2, Al Mashrabeya Gallery, Cairo, Egypt 2010 Climates, Al Mashrabeya Gallery, Cairo, Egypt 2010 The River, Artellewa, Cairo, Egypt Acrylic on paper 2009 Colour In Symphony, Kunst Art Gallery, Cairo, Egypt 29, 7 x 21 cm 2009 Black Touch, Al-Balad Art Gallery, Cairo, Egypt 2018 2008 Paintings, Cairo Atelier, Cairo, Egypt
MUTAZ ELEMAM / Sudan Collective exhibitions and fairs: 2019 , October, 1 - 54 , African Art Fair, Ubuntu art Gallery, London , Uk 2019 , may , African Art Fair, Ubuntu art Gallery, New York, USA 2018 Verona Art Fair, Shazar Gallery, Verona, Italy 2017 Miami art fair, Ubuntu art gallery, USA 2016 Sudanese Contemporary Art, Sharjah Art Museum, UAE 2016-2017-2018 Trullo 227, Martina Franca, Italy 2013 Art‌Freedom, Zamalek Art Gallery, Cairo, Egypt 2012 The 5th Beijing Biennale, Cina 2012 A Selection of Contemporary Sudanese Art, Boushahri Gallery, Kuweit 2012 Sketch of Life, Al Markheya Gallery, Doha, Qatar 2011-2012 Collage: 100 Years On, The Gallery, Cairo, Egypt 2011 Menas Art Fair, Beirut, Lebano 2011 Shadows of Memory, Fa Gallery, Kuweit City 2010 Taches and Taches, Saint Lo, France 2010 Nord Art, Dusseldorf , Germany 2009 AfricaCam, Cam Contemporary Art Museum, Casoria, Italy 2009- 2010-2011 Agenda, Biblioteca Alexandrina, Egypt reflects on the beauty and aesthetics hidden in ordinary things, places and people we encounter every day.
Acrylic on canvas 200 x 150 cm 2018
NAHAR MARZOOQ Saudi Arabia
NAHAR MARZOOQ / Saudi Arabia He born on 1970 in Saudi Arabia, and he has a Bachelor of Art Education- Teachers College 1993 -Charter member of the Saudi fine arts association. -Member of Bahrain fine arts Society -Member of UAE fine arts society -Member of Saudi Society for Culture Arts in Jeddah -Member of the Fine Artists House in Jeddah Tasks previously carried out by: - General Secretary of the Jeddah House of Artists, 2007 - Vice Chairman of the Fine Artists House in Jeddah, 2008 Currently working as: Branch ManagerSaudi Society for Fine Arts in Jeddah Personal Exhibitions: -The first personal exhibition Manakhat (climates) - The Global hall - Jeddah 2008. -the Second (café)- Creativity hall - Jeddah 2009 -The third (the three mosques), Abu Dhabi 2009 -The fourth personal exhibition (the calligraphy’s Hymns - Sharjah, 2010 Collective exhibitions and participations: -The General exhibition of the General Presidency of Youth Welfare of the year 1413 – 1993 -Exhibitionsof Artists Fine House from 1418 - 1998. -The Saudi Center Fine Arts exhibitions from 1418 - 1998. International Participations: - Participate in (Ehden International Symposium) - Lebanon 2005 - Participate in (Ehden International Symposium) - Lebanon 2006 - (Art House Forum) Exhibition- Morocco 2005. - Saudi Cultural Days Gallery- Cairo 2007. - Exhibition (Gulf colors) - Cairo 2006, (Lahz hall) organizing - First International Forum for fine Arts - Sharm el-Sheikh 2007 THE WALLS ARE TALK -Arabic Suites Exhibition in Abdel-Moneim El Sawy - Cairo 2007 Mixed media on canvas - Saudi Arabia Fair days - Yemen, Sanaa 2008 50 X 70 cm - Participation in love and peace wall – Sharjah, UAE 2009 2020
NAHAR MARZOOQ / Saudi Arabia The walls of the dilapidated houses Is covering it and demolishing it befitting it or its people? Does her breathing for her family’s breath and her breath for her make them a fusion, even if in a small proportion? It is a free platform for the voice of people with no restrictions, considerations or protocols He paints and expresses the child and the young man from the walls In fear, a person sticks his back to the wall to gain support, confidence and safety The wall is a free space to serve man We attach the lighting to the joys and sorrows We announce the lost items and the registration for the start of the new year Do we not have the right to be proud of a wall He attended our weddings and weddings The kerosene and the dafur were present, and their share was inhaled by the inhabitants of the place Shouldn’t we be proud of a wall that absorbed the humidity of the place and helped the days of our lives pass in peace?
THE WALLS ARE TALK Mixed media on canvas 50 X 70 cm 2020
NASHAAT HUSSEIN Egypt
NASHAAT HUSSEIN / Egypt He is Egyptian visual artist, born in Alexandria 1971, member of Syndicate of Egyptian Fine Artists. Free studies at the “Atelier Alexandria “Art School 19901995. He met with many art critics and many artists during his artistic activity and exhibitions. He has won many awards including: state prize of furtherance for an installation artwork entitled: “World - oriented media”. He reviewed a book:-“The ideology of transformation in modern art” Dar Merit for Publishing & Distribution. Also he was awarded the "ICA" award by the World Union of Fine Arts Critics. He won the Salon Award for installation artwork in the 16th Egyptian Youth Salon. He also participated in many Egyptian youth salons and the Port Said Biennale During the 1990s.he participated in many activities such as: -“Menawareen” exhibition at Mashrabiya Art Gallery- Cairo, exhibition “The Light installation” in the Palace of Arts – Cairo & Alexandria Atelier , Participate in "What's happening now?" exhibition at the Palace of Arts in Cairo. Exhibition of “the creativity of satellite dishes” between Egypt and Italy at Gezira Art Center – Cairo & Alexandria Center for Creativity. He participated in many workshops including: - Workshop with the German artist "Fred helm Klein" entitled "All and Part“- “Gestalt psychology”- at Goethe Institute in Alexandria, Workshop with Mexican artist "Jorge Salcedo" about: “Paper pulp techniques” at Alexandria Atelier. Workshop with the German artist "Fred helm Klein" entitled: - “Windows”- at Goethe Institute in Alexandria. Workshop with artists from the Royal Swedish Academy with the Painting Department, Faculty of Fine Arts, Alexandria under the supervision of Swedish Professor "Johan Weiden". Workshop “Modern vision- What's happening now?" - at the Palace of Arts – Cairo. He received a full-time scholarship from the Ministry of Culture for two years. Scholarship from “Dante Alighieri” Institute to study Italian language. He has artworks collections in the Museum of Modern Egyptian Art- Cairo and some individuals in Egypt and abroad.
NASHAAT HUSSEIN / Egypt
All the social diseases were the main reason behind the decline of awareness in societies. In addition to the loss of wisdom to the prevalence of uproars. Honesty and mendacity got mixed. Dreams, hopes, and ambitions were diminished. That's why it's better to spend time dealing with current problems than waiting for the worst to happen.
OMAR EL FAYOUMI / Egypt
OMAR EL FAYOUMI / Egypt Born in Giza, Egypt 1957 Graduated in the Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of mural painting 1981 Traveled to the Soviet Union for the studying of mural painting 1986 He received a postgraduate scholarship. from the Academy of Fine Arts (Ripen) - Department of mural painting, Graduated 1991 He has held numerous of solo and group exhibitions since his graduation so far In Egypt and many other countries. he has collections in the Museum of Modern Art, And many collectors of individuals in Egypt and many countries over seas mural painting at the market of Fustat in old Islamic Cairo, Egypt. A mural painting at Kazan city
FACES Oil colours on Paper and glued on canvas 160 X 160 cm 2007
OMAR EL FAYOUMI / Egypt The followers of the artist's work would clearly see his interested in social life in Egypt, whether popular cafés or the streets of old Cairo and its oriental character. For 40 years, he has made a journey deep into the Egyptian personality, a tour of downtown cafés, the world of women, the faces of fayoum, and social life in general. In his paintings, he presented a reflection of Egyptian faces that argue and dialogue the faces of Fayoum, and do not match them, although they bear the same characteristics of the sharp and deep faces of Fayoum, Omar's faces are not Funerary, but people we know and meet in real life, they are friends, families and acquaintances. His fans are ordinary people, café goers, and simple workers, his close contact to that world came from his belief in the importance of that the art is not for the Elite only, But for all.
FACES Oil colours on Paper and glued on canvas 160 X 160 cm 2007
OMAR TOUSSOUN Egypt
OMAR TOUSSOUN / Egypt Born in Alexandria 1972, graduated from Faculty of Specific Education (Alexandria University) class 1993, Toussoun holds a diploma in art from Alexandria University 1996 and another diploma in sound and marble from Serbia. Toussoun worked in art teaching in The Faculty of Specific Education and Atelier Alexandria for almost 8 years and currently a full-time freelance artist and curator who has participated and organized many art events and exhibitions locally and internationally. He had many solo exhibitions the last one was in 2018 and participated in many group exhibitions in Egypt, France, Lebanon, UAE, KSA, Spain, Romania and Serbia, he has many awards his holdings are in many museums and individuals in many countries. Toussoun is a member of the International Field Sculpture Organization and participated in establishing the theater and auditorium of the Mohammed Rashid Foundation for Cultural Development with Mr. Adrian Rodrigo Junko, the former Spanish cultural advisor in Alexandria and Cairo. QUEEN 1 Bronze 68 X 35 X 15 Cm 2018
OMAR TOUSSOUN / Egypt He was chosen as an Art Ambassador representing Egypt by the Art Center, the Center for Contemporary Art and Ideas (The Art Pivot) India - 2020. He was chosen as a member of the judging committee for the State Encouragement Prize for Sculpture 2019, as well as a member of the Fine Arts Committee of the Supreme Council for Culture and the International Exhibitions Committee 20162017, and a member of the Committee for Documenting Images of Egyptian Artists' Works in the Fine Arts Sector of the Ministry of Culture 2002, and he also organized a number of local and international forums and workshops, He organized a workshop to train art teachers to use environmental materials and recycle them in sculpture - Sidon, Lebanon, 2007, Executive Commissar of the First Cairo Symposium for Iron Sculpture 2013, organized a workshop with scrap iron at the Faculty of Art Education, Helwan University, Zamalek 2013, and the General Committee of the Cairo International Symposium for Iron Sculpture 2016 He founded the Badr International University's First Sculpture Symposium 2016 and organized its second session 2017 and many more exhibitions QUEEN 2 Bronze 47 X 40 X 15 Cm 2018
PETYO DAMYANOV Bulgaria
PETYO DAMYANOV / Bulgaria
Born on November 17, 1980 He graduated in painting from the University of Shumen "Bishop Konstantin Preslavski". In 2004 he graduated with a master's degree. Works in the field of painting, graphics and graphic design. Member of the Society of Shumen Artists. Since 2019 he has been a PhD student and lecturer in drawing, graphics and graphic design at the University of Shumen "Bishop Konstantin Preslavski". Participates in plein airs, national and international exhibitions. In 2013 he was awarded the "Shumen Award" for art and culture.
SHADOWS AND REFLECTIONS Acrylic and collage on canvas 80 X 160 Ń Đź 2019
PETYO DAMYANOV / Bulgaria
Paintings have long since transformed their twodimensional nature into a form of expression. The surface as a basis for painting and a carrier of information is undergoing change. In the search for three-dimensionality and the creation of another reality for expression, I have been experimenting in recent years.
SHADOWS AND REFLECTIONS Acrylic and collage on canvas 80 X 160 Ń Đź 2019
REEM HASSAN Egypt
REEM HASSAN / Egypt 1971 Born in Alexandria – Egypt .. Independent visual artist working as a Professor in painting department– Faculty of fine art Alexandria University. 2019 professor at the Faculty of and Arts Design, Princess Nora Bint Abdul Rahman University in Riyadh. 2012 - 2013 Member of higher committee of ministry of culture in visual art in Egypt .. Established EAN Egyptian Artists Network in Alexandria – Egypt .. General Secretary of Atelier of Alexandria 2006 – 2018, presenting working as an External Relations Alex workshop Center ..2006 – 2015, Member Board DWYER group for art and culture dialogue – Alexandria since 2006. Organized many of the National and International workshops and exhibitions for visual art , participated in the visual art movement since 1990, holds numerous international awards and local, Hassan set up Sixteen personal exhibitions were held in Egypt and Abroad , 2019 from book flowers – Capital Gallery – Cairo 2017 solo exhibition Colors Tunes – Capital Gallery – Cairo .2016 Selection of Reem Hassan`s work – Wekalet Behna – Alexandria .2014 Faculty of Fine Art Main Hall – Alexandria .2013 Alexandria Center of Art – Alexandria . 2013 SYRA-Arts Foundation - Four Seasons Hotel – Cairo .2012 Inter Art Gallery – Aiud , Romania .2012 Atelier of Alexandria – Alexandria .2010 Mashrabia – Gallery of Contemporary Art – Cairo2008 Alexandria Center of Art – Alexandria .2008 Mashrabia – Gallery of Contemporary Art – Cairo .2006 Goethe Institute – Alexandria .
REEM HASSAN / Egypt 2004 EL GAZERA ART CENER- Cairo . 2003 LA-BODIGA Karim Francis – contemporary art gallery – Cairo.2001 Akhenaton gallery – Cairo. 1999 Akhenaton gallery – Cairo. 1997 Arts center at Rotterdam in Dwenda – Netherlands. 1993 Goethe institute – Germany. Participated in many group exhibitions in Egypt, participated in a number of international workshops of the most important outside Egypt, USA the triangle art trust , 2004, South Africa ( Greatmore studio ) in 2004, the International art camp, Romania, 2011, 2012.2013.2015 . She won many international awards , 2012 POLLOCK-KRASNER FOUNDATION GRANT – USA , 2003 A.I.C.A. award at the 6th small art works salon – Cairo., 2001 Special award at the 8th Cairo international biennial Cairo. 2001 Grand prize of Port saieed national biennial – Port saieed. 2000 4th small art works salon – Cairo. 1997 Jury award – Alexandria biennial for Mediterranean Countries. 1996 3rd Award of painting – 8th salon of Youth – Cairo. 1996 Admiration award – 3rd Port saieed national biennial. 1994 2nd award – Installation – 6th salon of youth - Cairo. 1994 1st award – Installation - L'Atelier d'Alexandrie salon of youth.1993 1st award deserving - L'Atelier d'Alexandrie salon of youth.1991 Encouragement award L'Atelier d'Alexandrie salon of youth. THE ORNAMENT CARNIVAL Acrylic on canvas - 2020 Each artwork 60 X60 cm
SALAH EL MELIGY Egypt
SALAH EL MELIGY / Egypt 1980, Bachelor degree in Faculty of Fine Arts, Cairo - Graphic Department, excellent evaluation. 1988, MA in Fine Arts “portrait” in Graphic. 1993, ph.D in the mythical view in the works of graphic artists. 1999, assistant professor in the Faculty of Fine Arts. 2004, professor in Graphic Department, the Faculty of Fine Arts. Contriputed in founding the Graphic Center in Arts Assembly in 15 th of May City 1995-1996 . Founded and worked as the first Head of Graphic Department in Zaytona University, Jordan 2002- 2004 . A member in the committee of acquisitions classification of Egypt museums . A member in the Syndicate of Fine Artists in Cairo - Supervised on several of scientific studies in the Faculty of Fine Arts - Helwan University - the Head of the Central Administration of Techniqual Support for Museums and Exhibitions - Fine Arts Sector Ministry of Culture.
PAINTING ON PAPER FOR PAINTING Acrylic on paper 35 X 42 cm 2020
SALAH EL MELIGY / Egypt
Acquisitians : The Museum of Modern Egyptian Art - The Egyptian Opera House in Cairo - The International Conferences House, Cairo . The Egyptian Graphic Museum - under constructian - Al Motamed Ibn Abad AL saifia University in Morocco Helwan University Cairo . Buttersberg - Germany - Canda - Brazil - Norway - Morocco - Spain - New York France - Saudi Arabia - Cairo -Alexandria - Jordan . 8th Luxor International Painting Symposium
Acrylic on canvas 60 X 40 cm 2020
SALLY ELZEINY Egypt
SALLY ELZEINY / Egypt She is associate Professor, Faculty of Fine Arts Cairo/ The United Nations development program 2005/ The Macmillan children's illustrator award 2007 /Marche d' Acqua – Fabriano Aquarello) Italy 2012/ intercontinental Exhibition "United Nations New York 2013/ ART MEETS MUSIC Italy 2013/ The 6th Luxor International Symposium 2013 /The 13th International Cavafia 2013/ exhibition " earth, fire, water" France 2014 /"Imago Mundi" Italy 2014/ Intercontinental Biennial of Small Graphics- Aiud Romania 2014/ workshop Bahrain's summer festival 2014 INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, Armenia “ART FOR PEACE” 2015/ The 2nd Borrollos symposium for drawing walls and boats 2015/ “In The Garden” Solo Exhibition Salon du Caire 57-2016/ international exhibition "the key" caravan 2016/ Al Maken symposium Tunisia 2016/ "Love Sonnets" Solo exhibition Oct 2017/ "Madinaty" 1st international painting symposium Nov 2017/ "DOWNTOWN" workshop- Daii Gallery Dec 2017/ “The Scene” Solo Exhibition 2018/ On Line International Workshop “Rang Malhar”- 11th Edition- India 2020/ The 7th International Boroullus Symposium for Painting on Walls & Boats – 2020/ Suzan Mubarak’s 2nd prize in Child Literature 2002 /Cleopatra 4th Siwa painting Symposium 2013/ Acquisitions: Faculty of Fine Arts museum Minia – Cairo. I AM FREE Mixed Media on Canvas 30 x 30 without Frame 2018
SALLY ELZEINY / Egypt Literature of The Sixties in Egyptian Narration Cinema A Contemporary Vision of The Film Poster " Affiche" Through Exhibition "The Scene" The Exhibition deals with "literature of the sixties" of the twentieth century and its effect in Egyptian narrative cinema, through a contemporary vision of the "Master Scene" in the film, paintings with written texts, where the researcher reviews the distinguishing features of "literature of the sixties", and the effect of "The Nasserite Experience" in the literature movement in that period, Where "Socialism" imposed its rules on the behavior of society and its organizations, reviewing the History of Egyptian Cinema from its Beginnings to the features and characteristics of the fifties and Sixties Narrative cinema Supporter of the political system, in conjunction with the official start of the film public sector, and these prosperous period in the History of Egyptian cinema, then exposure to the beginnings of "Affiche", its importance, the journey of its development, and its features in the Egyptian cinema until the sixties, presented in (14) Artworks, using Mixed Media on tight Canvas
The EMPTY PILLOW Mixed Media on Canvas 20 x 30 without Frame 2018
SHIMAA MAHMOUD Egypt
SHIMAA MAHMOUD / Egypt A visual artist and journalist editor from Egypt, he started her studies of art at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Zamalek - Helwan University, from which she graduated in 2011. She participated in many cultural workshops with artistic criticism in Rome by obtaining the State Prize for Artistic Creativity 2014 Shimaa participated in a number of international and local exhibitions and collective workshops. Among them are the "Black and White" Painting Salon at the Gezira Arts Center 2010, Siwa Ceremony Grant Exhibition - Mahmoud Mukhtar Museum 2012, the State Award for Creativity Members Exhibition at the Egyptian Academy - Rome-2014, the South Salon 2017, the Dialogues of Faces and Places workshop at Gallery 2019, Dhay Festival for Arab Youth She has many critical articles published in a number of Egyptian magazines, and she has many holdings with many individuals inside Egypt and abroad.
PHOTOGRAPHY Acrylic colors and decoupage on wood 150 X 150 cm 2020
SHIMAA MAHMOUD / Egypt They are not alive The creative experience of the artist Shaima Mahmoud comes to express intellectual connotations and ideological variables to discuss some contemporary issues of women, through philosophical principles that carry within them feelings, ideas and hopes, and what is between all of this is the contrasting contradictions of cultures and concepts contrary to different social, class, cultural and ethnic norms and conditions to contribute In the radical change in contemporary thought, and radically rethinking all the prevailing structures of society, and in light, by visually proposing through formative vocabulary embodying the feminine meaning, with persons with pale-skinned faces and bodies in neutral shades that suggest another world; Trying to show the emotion of the soul from just a body. Which reflects intellectual visions by addressing the concept of women, not with the usual ideas of politicizing their relationship with her body, but rather there is a broader, and perhaps more comprehensive approach through the environment from which it emerged, and the transformation that occurred to her as a result of the changes that took place around her and thus her, and about her history The ancient and the present and their connection with the environment in which they live, their innate nature and the collective memory that they carry and their personal history, also their intuition that relies on them as a primary source of knowledge, as well as the attempt to link the woman to the sacred myths that, in a certain period of time, raised her to a divine position, so she was the first source of creation. The daughter, mother and grandmother, through which stories and legends pass, are the keepers of history and memory across this body in all its transformations and phases. PHOTOGRAPHY Acrylic colors and decoupage on wood 120 X 100 cm 2020
SILVIA POLOTO USA
SILVIA POLOTO / USA Born and raised in Sao Paulo, Brazil Lives and works in the US Selected Exhibitions San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA - Museo Italo Americano, San Francisco, CA - Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA - Oakland Museum of California, Gallery 555, Oakland, CA - California Palace of the Legion of Honor Residency and Exhibition, San Francisco, CA - Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA - Seattle Arts Museum Gallery, Seattle, WA - United Nations, New York City, NY - Scope New York, New York City, NY - Butters Gallery, Portland, OR Scope Miami, Miami, FL - Etra Fine Arts, Miami, FL - Miami Art Basel, Miami, FL Aberson Exhibits, Tulsa, OK - Julie Nester Gallery, Park City, UT - Soprafina Gallery, Chicago, MA - Ogilvie Pertl Gallery, Chicago, IL - Fairmount Gallery, Dallas, TX - Dubai International Art Symposium and Exhibition, Dubai, UAE - Maiden Tower, Baku, Azerbaijan - Art Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan - Hong Kong International Biennial, Hong Kong, Republic of China - Qatar Visual Art Center, Doha, Qatar - Dar Al Landa Gallery, Amman, Jordan - International Art Symposium and Exhibition, Amman, Jordan International Art Symposium and Exhibition, Baku, Azerbaijan - Zervas Art Gallery, Patras, Greece - Foresight Gallery, Amman, Jordan - Gozo Contemporary, Gozo, Malta - Ruzicka Gallery, Munich, Germany - Trogir Municipal Museum and Palace Milesi, Split, Croatia - International Art Symposium and Exhibition, Cappadocia, Turkey Connecting Art Gallery, Ptolemaida, Greece - International Art Symposium and Exhibition, Carei, Romania - Espace Europia, Paris, France - Artspace 191, Vienna, Austria - Vlassis Gallery, ThessalonĂki, Greece - UNESCO Art Symposium, Patras, Greece - Galerie 13 bis Contemporain, Saint Pierre, La Reunion - International Art Symposium and Exhibition, Russalka, Bulgaria - La Muestra International de Arte, Venado Tuerto, Argentina
HABOTAI.series#5 Oil and ink on wood panel 36x36 inch 2020
SILVIA POLOTO / USA
Beginning with my experience as a woman, immigrant, widow and mother, from my own subjective experience and honest reflection, I create work to connect to others. I am interested in the purpose of pain, in the structure of sorrow, in the anguish of grief, in the rapture of love, in the joy of friendship, in the tenderness of selfdiscovery. I am interested in the exploration of elegance, of simplicity, of beauty. Like many artists in history, I affirm the existence of beauty itself and the possibility of human connection and shared meaning. However I work in abstraction. Through abstraction I reveal rather than portray, and invite rather than present. I use an always evolving approach to materials to express what is there, what is here, what is between.
HABOTAI.series#7 Oil and ink on wood panel 62x42 inch 2020
SONYA RADEMEYER South Africa
SONYA RADEMEYER / South Africa EDUCATION: 1990 – 1996
BA (FA) Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam (NETHERLANDS)
SELECTION OF SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 2019 The In-Between AVA Gallery, Cape Town (SA) All we need is a Conductor NWU Aardklop National Festival (SA) 2011 looking to see AVA Gallery, Cape Town (SA) 2009 not in a body of words US Gallery, Stellenbosch (SA) 2008 I am an African Blank Projects, Cape Town (SA) 2007 Babble AVA Gallery, Cape Town (SA) 2005 Origin art-B Gallery, Bellville (SA) SELECTION OF GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 2020 vNAF online (curated, Makhanda (SA) Imibala Gallery, Somerset West (SA) TransCulturalExchange hello world virtual exhibition, Boston (USA) vNAF online Fringe, Makhanda (SA) Traces Exhibition Biblioteek Produksies online (SA) Vrystaat Arts Festival Hoofstroom online, Bloemfontein (SA) Geumgang Nature Art Biennale (Korea) 2019 Youngblood Gallery, Cape Town (SA) Admin UNTITLED Cape Town (SA) FreeSpace Zeitz Mocca, Cape Town (SA) Tankwa Artscape, (SA) Vrystaat Arts Festival, Bloemfontein (SA) Live drawing performance, Stroud Green Festival London (UK) Centenary Art Gallery UOFS, Bloemfontein (SA) Tankwa Artscape Residency group exhibition (Romania) ART FESTIVALS: 2020 virtual National Arts Festival (vNAF), Makhanda (SA) Vrystaat Arts Festival, Bloemfontein (SA) 2019 Vrystaat Arts Festival, Bloemfontein (SA) Stroud Green Festival London (UK) 2014 Joburg Fringe, Johannesburg (SA) 2007 Grahamstown (SA) Cultivaria Festival Paarl (SA) Flesh KKNK Oudtshoorn (SA) 2004 NY International Independent Film and Video Festival (USA)
THE | STRUGGLE | photography 2020 - digital file
SONYA RADEMEYER / South Africa My Malaika Photography the|Struggle |&||| These images depict the ongoing personal struggle of post-colonialism from the artist’s white perspective. Wearing a dress that bears resemblance to clothing worn in early colonization, the artist speaks to her own internal struggle regarding the residing trauma and division caused by this dominant and destructive politic. Struggling with the horns as she leans into the imagined beast of colonialism, her personal fight is with her inherited ancestral lineage and its documented embeddedness from this time. Rademeyer deems herself accountable for the contributions of her ancestral lineage which may have contributed to the still lingering inter-generational pain of today. She is unable to escape her origins. The struggle is, of course, not only performed on a physical level but is enveloped in the core of what it means to be human: the feelings, the hopes, the dreams, the frustration, the anger, the sadness and the disgust of a historical time that is unable to be either altered or deleted. The disgust of atrocities occurred is marked on Rademeyer’s skin which are visible on her exposed hands, neck and face. Using cake flour as medium, the surface of her skin is highlighted as revealing a type of disease. There are echoes of growths which suggest some skin disorder such as Leprosy which ultimately maims and distorts the body, asking for the removal of such a body from society due to its contagiousness and trajectory. The struggle, however, does not remain only with the artist but broadens out to include those struggling with ‘whiteness’ in a post-colonial society. Through this short series of three photographic works, Rademeyer hopes to unearth questions relating to whiteness itself, thereby questioning what whiteness is and what it means to face one’s own whiteness? The standing image relays the full force of the artists own body against the imagined weight of such a dominant politic which, she inherently knows, she is unable to compete with physically. Nevertheless, she exerts the pressure she holds within herself whilst fully understanding the impossibility thereof. It is a something that is; something that has to be grappled with. The acknowledgement of this – the inability to change the past – is relayed in the kneeling image which depicts the artist succumbing to the impossibility of a desire for an imagined pre-colonial era. At the same time, it is an act of prayer and a plea of forgiveness for the still existing intergenerational trauma of colonization.
THE | STRUGGLE |II photography 2020 - digital file
TEMENUGA HRISTOVA Bulgaria
TEMENUGA HRISTOVA / Bulgaria
She is a visual artist from Shumen, Bulgaria. She has worked in the fields of painting and printmaking and art education. She has participated in international exhibitions in Bulgaria, Macedonia, Romania, Hungary, Turkey, Czech Republic, Italy, France, Armenia, Lithuania, Russia, Egypt, Morocco, China, USA, Canada, Australia, Argentina and Mexico. She is a member of the Union of Bulgarian Artists Graphic Section and International Association of Art, UNESCO.
“4.55 am� 30x30 cm, acrylic on canvas, relief, pigments, gilding 2020
TEMENUGA HRISTOVA / Bulgaria These works are part of a “Blue” painting cycle that I started several years ago. Colors of the night, lights and shadows of the night, silence and stillness of the night, sleepless whispers and movements of the night –all that inspired me and intrigued me to depict a line of wandering spirits in the role of theirs delicate restless existence and communication. Even the first impression of sleepless souls appear in the works, the main idea is focused on the awake searching state of the soul. Often travellers and dreamers are owners of such kind of souls which can be a curse of restlessness or a blessing of changing discoveries. The multiple layers of colors and mixed technique refer to the multiple layers of symbolic figures and gestures forming conditions for more profound observations and researches.
“INSOMNIA“ 60x60 cm, acrylic on canvas, pigments, relief 2020
VINAY SHARMA India
VINAY SHARMA / India He born in Rajasthan 1965, did his diploma in Painting from Rajasthan School of Arts- Jaipur1986, studied in Liverpool University, England as an exchange student 1989-90 and completed his Postgraduate Diploma in Graphics from M.S. University - Baroda 1990. He has to his credit many one man shows including shows at Hope Street Art Gallery, Liverpool, -England 1989. Exhibition Hall, Faculty of Fine Art's, M.S. University - Baroda 1990. Jawahar Kala Kendra Jaipur 1993. Hanover Galleries Liverpool - England 1996. Talisin Arts Center, Swansea University, South Wales - UK. 1996. National Lalit Kala Academy - New Delhi. Gallery of Contemporary Art Pzemysl Poland 1999. "Scenic Times Bygone" an exhibition of Painting at National Lalit Kala Akademi- New Delhi 2004. His works have also been exhibited in several important exhibitions including the Exhibition of Prints at Miami University - U.S.A.1986. National Art Exhibition by LKA - New Delhi 1989-91. Bombay Art Society- Bombay1990. All India Exhibition by LKA - Jaipur 1991. The Sixth Bharat Bhawan Biennial of Contemporary India Art at Bhopal 1996. 50 Years of Art in Independent India - Exhibition organized by All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society - New Delhi1997. Colors of Rajasthan Exhibition organized by Rajasthan Lalit Kala Academy and Jawahar Kala Kendra - Jaipur 1998. Slide Show and Talk, Oxford England1990. Graphic Expressions Print Show 2000 by Cymroza Art Gallery - Mumbai 2000. Dhaka Print Biennial - Bangladesh 2002. Egyptian Triennial for Prints - Cairo Egypt 2003.
HOMAGE TO ELDERS – III Mix media on old & new handmade paper 60.96 X 86.36 cm 2009
VINAY SHARMA / India Painting is an expression of my inner being. It is, in fact, a compulsion with me for it started at an early age when I was a mere child. My first canvas came into being when I was about 16-17 years of age. Since then, painting has become synonymous with life. I paint because I exist. Certain emptiness persists till I take the brush and paint in hand and then shapes, and lines emerge. I owe a lot to my village home where I grew up amongst festivals, rituals, traditions, and of course, astrology. Astrology was a way of life and its basics have surfaced in a philosophical way in my work. The impressions I inculcated as a child have become recurring symbols in my work. I feel that my inner and outer beings have submerged effortlessly in the recent series. Creation, the formless nature of form, the first word, and the first sign of life on earth - all these concepts have a lasting relationship with my paintings. The intrinsic quality of my work is laced and defined with these concepts. The process of creating a canvas is gradual with me. I use multimedia to paint. In my old paintings snatches of the current style were recurring. In the recent paintings I have used multimedia to create symbols. The old paper used for astrological scroll and book keeping copies of my ancestors, is the canvas. A sense of time forms the theme of these paintings. To create multilayered images, I have used collage, print and traditional miniature painting style in oil and water colours. These merge will with handwritten astrological scrolls. While making this series, I had a sense of being a witness to my own ancestry. I am evolving slowly, for each year brings newer images, techniques and combinations to my paintings. Painting given me a catharsis, and I guess, that is the reason I create.
HOMAGE TO ELDERS acrylic on old and new handmade paper 56x76 cm 2016
VIRGINIA RYAN Australia-Italy
VIRGINIA RYAN / Australia-Italy VIRGINIA RYAN is an Australian-Italian binational artist, art therapist and cultural activist. She graduated from the Australian National University School of Arts (79) , postgraduate studies in Art Therapy (Edinburgh, Scotland 94) and Gestalt Therapies (Italy,ongoing) . Since 1980, Ryan has worked internationally with an interdisciplinary approach, alone and in association with fellow artists, anthropologists and musicians, collaborating with institutions such as New York University, and co-founding FCA Ghana (Foundation for Contemporary Art, Ghana) and Make Art Not War N.G.O in Ivory Coast after the 2011 civil war .
Based in Italy , she has lived and worked with artists in Alexandria Egypt (1982 -1985), Curitiba Brazil (1988-1990), Belgrade in Serbia (1990-1992), Edinburgh (1992-1995) Accra Ghana (2001-2007) Abidjan (2009-2013) and Grand Bassam in Ivory Coast (2014-2016) Her research has been concerned with identity, land and memory,shown in the Biennales such as Malindi , Dakar, Venice and Curitiba; with exhibitions in public and gallery spaces on all continents. Works have been featured in International Art Fairs and are held in public and private collections . She is a life-time ‘Accademico Di Merito’ at the Pietro Vannucci Accademia in Perugia,Italy. For a full biography: www.virginiaryan.com
SURFACING At Pino Pascali Foundation,Puglia, 2014
VIRGINIA RYAN / Australia-Italy SURFACING at Pino Pascali Foundation,Puglia, 2014 Part of ongoing research into the mythology of MamiWata Water Spirits in West Africa, then re-connected to mediterranean mermaid myths. Made in Ivory Coast from wire and 'hair extensions' from China, purchased in the markets of the city of Abidjan in 2010. Installation comprising seven individual sculptures. First exhibited in the Donwahi Foundation for Contemporary Art,West Africa, then in the Pino Pascali Foundation and Palazzo Collicola in Italy.
CHILD SOLDIERS Variation of ceramic installation on handmade bricks from Umbria, created for the show 'War and Revolution' at the Rocca di Umbertide Art Space in Italy, 1998. A critique of / homage to the anonymous and exploited underage soldiers in global ‘dirty wars’.
CHILD SOLDIERS Ceramic baby shoes , glaze, bricks. Various dimensions, each brick circa 20x30cm
YASSER ELANSY Yemen
YASSER ELANSY / Yemen Former Head of Artistic Education Dept Faculty of Education, Ibb University Ph.D. in General Painting, with an accumulative grade of Excellent. Awarded many shields and international prizes and merit certificates. Founder of Art House in Ibb City and was appointed by a Ministerial Decree as a director for it, 2004. A member of Yemeni International Cultural Seminar. A member of Sub Refereed Committee of President Prize for Plastic Arts, Yemen. A member of Refereed Committee of the 21st Annual Exhibition for Plastic Arts, devoted for professional artists over the age of 35, Diwan of Oman Sultanate, Muscat, 2013. Organized World Picture in Yemen, Main Authority was Rome, Italy. Organized and supervised a number of Artistic Workshops in Yemen. Published a number of artistic essays and critical and aesthetical studies in the field of plastic arts. International and Local Participations. Participated in a number of international artistic and cultural events and exhibitions in Italy, Sharam el-Sheikh, Turkey, Iraq, Muscat, Cairo, Alexandria. Participated in Model Exhibition, Etiliah, Alexandria, Egypt, 2012. Participated in Plastic Arts Agenda Exhibition organized annually by Alexandria Library, 2010. Participated in Arab in the Heart of Egypt Exhibition, Center of Gezwait, Alexandria, Egypt, 2008. Participated in Collection Exhibition at Hussein Sobhi Museum, Alexandria, Egypt, 2007. Participated in Alexandria International Etiliah Saloon for Youth, Alexandria, Egypt, 2007. Participated in Cairo International Benyali for Youth, 2004. Personal Exhibitions: 1st Personal Exhibition, Algeria, Algeria, 2004. 2nd Personal Exhibition, Cultural House, Sana'a, Yemen, 2004. 3rd Personal Exhibition, Alexandria, Museum Mahmoud Said, Yemen, 2007. Works sold to: Cyprus Museum for Fine Arts, Turkey, Benyoutin Museums, Rome, Italy, Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Yemen, Businessmen and some international artistic institutions and museums in Rome, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Iraq, and Yemen. Important Prizes: Prize of Creativity and International Participation, Sharam el-Sheikh International Symposium, 2013. Dubai International and Cultural Prize for Creativity, Plastic Arts, 2011. THE MIDDLE OF THE MARKET Acrylic on wood - 100 X 70 cm - 2020
YASSER ELANSY / Yemen THE MIDDLE OF THE MARKET Inside Market is a work which represents the emotional and artistic effect that embodies the state of the city and people in the market including shortened human signs and other elements drawn from the Yemeni architectural reality and faรงades of illuminated windows. With the emergence of the most adventurous and modern technical aspects represented in the formation of the work, depending on deletion and addition, reflect access to special and new visual effects due to the ability to adapt the color space and manipulate it to highlight both sobriety and color geometry at times. Then, they get bias towards the fragmentation of the space through immediate and direct strikes that show color lyricism, its emotionality, and transformations.
ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF OLD SANA'A On outskirts of Old Sana'a: When establishing this work that reflects the expressive trend, the researcher relies on his deep esoteric sense towards the items and elements of traditional architecture (i.e., Old Sana'a). Based on various techniques, he is able to form his artistic and visual discourse in this work which is dominated by black and white colors as being two fundamental values on which this work in its general perspective is based. This work is established on the basis of references from self-imagination, which all reflect the items of that great artistic effect of elements of that city with its characteristics, decorations and windows lit from inside. This light goes with its vision to represent the artistic contents that express essence rather than appearance. ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF OLD SANA'A Acrylic on canvas 100 X 70 cm 2020
YASSER GAD Egypt
YASSER GAD / Egypt Fine artist / freelance researcher in the modern and contemporary Egyptian plastic movement born in Cairo 1969. He holds a Bachelor of Arts (Egyptian Archeology Department) Ain Shams University, works as a director of the portable Museum in the Fine Arts Sector (Ministry of Culture) since 2015 until now, establishing the Jewelery Department ( In the Contemporary Arts Center (Fine arts sector) 2003, the executive committee of the youth salon and the general exhibition for several sessions from 2005 to 2011 - he worked as an executive in charge of performing performances at the Arts Palace (Fine arts sector) from 2004 to 2011 - Commissar of the regions salon (Cairo region and North Upper Egypt) 2015. Executive Committee of the Badr University Symposium 2015 Chairman of the Regional Salon Arbitration Committee (Greater Cairo and North Upper Egypt / Fayoum 2017) - General Commissar of the International Symposium for the Revival of Humanity, first session (Sharm El-Sheikh / Egypt) 2018. Exhibitions - Solo Exhibition Cairo Atelier 2007 - Participation in the General Exhibition Sessions from 28 to (Session) 35 - (2015) - Participation in Exhibitions of Jeddah Atelier 2008, 2009, 2010 Exhibition and Joe - Horizon Hall - Fine Arts Sector 2006 - Group Exhibition at the Center Mahmoud Mukhtar Al Thaqafi (Mahmoud Mukhtar Museum) - Egyptian Creativity Exhibition, Academy of Arts (2005) - White and Black Salon (Al Jazeera Arts Center) - First and Second Jewelery Festival (Al Jazeera Arts Center) - First Show Salon (Al Jazeera Arts Center) (2008) - Grant Siwa Ceremony December 2011 - Siwa exhibition at Mahmoud Mukhtar Cultural Center / Isis Hall in March 2012 Solo exhibition at Cairo Atelier January 2017 - Solo exhibition in Korba Art Gallery April 2017 - Solo exhibition Cairo Atelier 2018 - Solo exhibition Cairo Atelier 2019. Art Fair (TAM Gallary / cairo) 2019. Solo exhibition Samah Gallery / Zamalek / Cairo 2020. Workshops: - Workshop (Bronze Casting) Contemporary Arts Center (Plastic Arts Sector) 2001 Attached Graphic Workshop (to the Graphic Salon) Arts Palace 2005 Publications: - Reading in Contemporary Egyptian Formation (Part One) - Reading in Contemporary Egyptian Formation (from the second part to the fifteenth part under preparation for printing) Reading in a hundred works (in press) - Collectibles of the Museum of Egyptian Modern Art / Ministry of Foreign Affairs / with its members. - Preparing and presenting the radio program (in plastic criticism, with Yasser Gad), Radio 91.5 FM, the first season / 2018 (36 episodes)
STARS Colored charcoal on cotton paper - 76 X 56 cm - 2018
YASSER GAD / Egypt My experience in the (stair) exhibition was like a Coin with two faces, one of them is purely personal, related to myself and my being. As for the other side, it tends towards the conceptualization of that singular for everyone, which is hidden among the folds of its five letters as coordinates typical for practicing the up and down projections for all of us on all intellectual, social, life, professional, scientific and creative levels ... etc. The word “stair� in myself reflects the synonym for that descending path that awaits me outside the door, to extend under my feet, making for me that bridge that crosses me this boundary between me and that world in which I live in its space and surroundings, and which I find driven every day to descend to its bank, He is the one who witnesses my inner states of hope, despair, frowning, monotony and habit. It is also that first future for my return to my home and residence, and it witnesses my triumphs and breaks, my successes and failures, as well as the stalemate and movement of my events, and my day trip may not take when I pass it down the great amount of my attention and observations, perhaps because my concern is over the next of my day and what awaits me on the other side of this The bridge, which I usually cross over in a hurry, but the journey of the oud remains the longest of the shortest moments of my day, with which I feel time stops for five minutes, they are all the duration of my lagging journey up to that fifth floor of this ancient house located in the heart of Cairo, whose floors are separated by those twenty-four degrees Which I see as four frequent bridges are the longest in my eyes, and the most varied in their atmospheres due to those night lights that vary between intensity and fading and between darkness and waddling of moonlight that encounters me few or even rare times, so I practice examining that bridge (stair) in usually I can not justify my diapers On the one hand, perhaps because it reminds me of all those people who departed from this house, including family, loved ones, and neighbors, so I found what I remember about them, their features and voices, their conversation and laughter, expressions and atmosphere They are in all their conditions, my relationship with them, which is confined between friendliness and apathy, and sometimes I make decisions for tomorrow and put in them my perceptions of what I expect to happen in that tomorrow, and sometimes I establish in them the actions of my day and its events that I ruminate as flashes. He is the main witness to all my failures and losses, and he is also the permanent present in all my successes and victories. That experience, which came as one of the most enjoyable experiences that I went through on the thresholds of this staircase during the long hours of the night in this ancient house for fifty days, is never those walls, stairs and thresholds, nor those doors and windows, nor those architectural perspectives that I dealt with which may come out a lot. On the origins of the well-known architectural perspective and standards, it is what my eyes saw in a mixed state that includes the details of the place, and between what I feel different and varied sensations attacking me in my sessions during work, which I consider have documented my internal cases more than they documented an internal perspective of an architectural building staircase , (stair) is a major symbol not only in the life of Yasser Gad, but in the lives of each of us, and perhaps I found in those walls a more appropriate model to bring about my projection and concept of that word (stair) and what it meant to me, as some will see in it what suits them to make their own projections on it ..
STARS Colored charcoal on cotton paper - 76 X 56 cm - 2018
POINTS 4 FOR VISUAL ARTS - 2021 EAN group for international artistic cooperation EAN group for international artistic cooperation established in 2009 and founded by Moataz El Safty and Reem Hassan, they are a group of independent artist and curator, that serves to activate and enrich artistic, cultural and intellectual movement in the city of Alexandria and activates events and partnerships for projects between Alexandria and Africa and the World, relying on the principle of cooperation and dialogue with others through organizing a series of collective local, regional and international activities such as residencies, workshops, exhibitions...etc. This is in addition to courses in the fields of visual arts, media and broadcast for various age groups and social classes. EAN group aims to establishing an institution that support and nurture the artistic movement in general and especially in the fields of media arts and give real opportunities for young people to be freely creative. Increasing the area of artistic and cultural dialogue between Egyptian and foreign artists to increase the exchange of experiences and ideas among a number of workshops and art projects through Mid-Euro activities. Allowing every possible opportunity and not being limited to a specific set of specific age groups for sustaining functional activities and giving the opportunity to participate and assist fore all ages, Establishing several activities that rely primarily on the participation of ideas and dialogue and introducing the other. Establishment of several activities that depend primarily on what is new in the world of art and its relationship to technology, for example, Interactive Art which is an art based on interaction with the recipient of the creative work. Direction towards interacting with art students and contributing to the definition of various arts by contribution, assistance and participation in the international workshops to give them the information they need smoothly contrary to the conventional method adopted in academies through lectures. Complete artistic upbringing of members of the community as the educational process in Egypt lacks this important aspect. Nobody has supplemented it until now. Turning to teachers of art subjects at art schools and establishing workshops to raise the level of thinking and development capabilities as they are considered as the ones responsible for producing by their hands generations who may be interested or not interested in culture and arts. Creating partnership projects with institutions within and outside Egypt for a number of artistic activities and cultural exchange programs.
POINTS 4 FOR VISUAL ARTS - 2021 VAS virtual art space
The idea of establishing this virtual art space was initiated by EAN group for international artistic cooperation through independent artists and curators, namely Moataz El Safty and Reem Hassan, after organizing three virtual exhibitions in 2002, where it was difficult to find a gallery that allows displaying creations of young artists whose works and experiences developed the trends of visual art in Egypt. However, they were criticized and accused of being followers to the international movement, and that their work doesn’t represent the Egyptian identity. Today, in addition to the previous challenge, existing galleries control the kind of art and work it displays, which forces artists in most cases to oblige to their needs in order to get a chance for displaying art.
Therefore, the idea of creating this virtual art space was introduced in 2020 where we designed a website specifically for this exhibition. However, this VAS virtual art space will continue to display other experiences, such as collective and individual exhibitions, to overcome the current challenge. It will also introduce artists and their own experiences to wider audiences in Egypt and the world, since this space will spread on social media platforms and artistic pages. In addition, it achieves the idea of social distancing forced upon us by covid-19 pandemic, so that our artistic and cultural lives move forward and not backwards.
POINTS 4 FOR VISUAL ARTS - 2021 VAS virtual art space
POINTS 4 INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION FOR VISUAL ARTS 1ST JANUARY 2021
Curated by MOATAZELSAFTY