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Artist Statement:
Artist's statement:
The momentum.
The act of Drawing stimulates
certain forms that should be
put in order to create a field
of magnetism to the surface
and also the media I use. I
discovered that in all the
masterworks of art there is a
sense of predominant illusion
through which visual
expression of outside subjects
might occur, due to
restricting the forms. I used
my own prudent eye to
perceiving these magnetic
fields from which emanate the
dual energy and the rhythmic
perception of drawing.
Also I had infatuated science
with those rhythmic
perceptions in my art, as well
in the ritual dances of my
country. As if each natural
existence reflects its own
rhythmic internal, that pulses
- meaning through its tension
created. The dancing figure,
in an empty space, which has
no boundaries, and which the
human form becomes in a moment
of the existence a rather
hectic circle to a grain of
sand. The recalling of the
natural forces to act like
drawing. The tree trunk
exposes much tension and
sublime internal life which
activates a certain inner
experience for the memory.
Those activities of the
natural sources which
consternated thorough every
content shows much as the ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
Exhibitions (group, solo):
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2003 Momentum, Contemporaray
Human Scruples, International
Art Project, Magdy Shiha,
Egypt and Marian Lund,
Denmark, ArtSpaces Sidi
Ghaber, Alexandria
2001 Beyond the Cave Of
Images, May, The Egyptian
Embassy Gallery, under the
auspices of the Egyptian
Ambassador, Washington, DC,
USA.
2001 The Great Falls Art
Festival, 1st ...
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Artist Galleries:
MY GALLERIES :
http://www.absolutearts.com/por
tfolios/a/artistico_mag_shia/
http://www.freewebs.com/almadar
studio
http://www.freewebs.com/art4hum
anity
http://www.egyptart.org.eg/
http://go.to/art-alexandria
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Artist Reviews:
Bibliography: (Reviews,
Interviews):
2001 European Radio
Program, an Interview with
Hannan Samaha Announcer.
2001 Interview at the
Herald News, NJ, USA. Michael
Clancy, Reporter.
2000 Interview at the
National Egyptian Newspaper Al
Akbar, Daily paper, Editor
Thorayaa Darwiesh.
1999 National TV interview
with artist works, channel 3.
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Magdy Shiha Biography:
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Age
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46
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Male
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Married
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| Children |
2
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| Religion |
Muslim |
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| Education |
Professional Work |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
Poetry, Music, Fine Arts |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Mixed Media
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Expressionism - (1905 - 1945)
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
not provided
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| Favorite Work of Art |
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| Biggest Artistic Inspiration |
THE HUMAN FIGURE |
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
TO FIND OUT |
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| Your Personal Biography |
Magdy Shiha
Biography and Resume
Alexandria, Egypt
MAGDY SHIHA had born in Cairo (Egypt) 1962. SHIHA started his artistic career in (Alex) 1983 science he was studying engineering, he says, practicing art deepen my wondering about the human .The necessity to draw was uneasy vague discontent. SHIHA expresses his unwillingness to leave his own special approach to experience through imagination, he pointed out to improvised qualities in drawing and improvisation as the union of deep feeling with profound thought, the fine balance of observing with sight- memory. SHIHA drawings examines all the variable moments to the human, such that the artist experienced to draw a hauntingly beautiful figurative charcoals, very intensively done for the sensitive human he is. These ambiguous and metaphoric charcoal images show a sharp distinction between body and soul.
The artist draws on another form of self (ka) with natural shapes, gestures, poses, attitudes and actions as if formalized by primordial commandment .The artist of Alexandria, Egypt works in ink on paper or charcoal, his pieces reflect his intensity and his passion for the human figure and all the facts that it encompasses. His figurative works, commands of the viewer to see parts of them, parts that are floating, dancing, swirling and fascinated by life with wonder like the eyes of a child. Or the hauntingly beautiful, yet alluring aspects that we do not want to see, or acknowledge about ourselves, the deep roots of our sub- consciousness. SHIHA drawings embark on the positive and negative forces that drive all the human beings; he puts ourselves in front of us, as if has looked into our very souls. He showed many solo and group exhibitions in Egypt and outside, also scheduled to exhibit at Art spaces MD, USA April 2001 and Mexico.
Name: MAGDY SHIHA
Title: Professional ARTIST & Stained Glass - Crafts Specialist
Institution: INDEPENDENT
Media Skills: Profession at graphics design, computer skills.
Education Degree: BSC. Mechanical Engineering / Alexandria University
Additional Studies: Art Study in the Field Of stained glass & Mural Painting (Private Studies), US Art Residence, Clifotn,NJ2001-2004
Mailing Address: Cell :( 012) 316-3323
Profession: INDEPENDENT ARTIST, Member of the Plastic Artists Syndicate, Alexandria.
Email Address: artshiha@hotmail.com
MAGDY SHIHA:
Exhibitions (group, solo):
2006 ART PROJECT, Images of the Middle East Copenhagen
2004 Art-Project, both Magdy Shiha (Egypt) and Marianne Lund (Denmark) had taken its place at 16th of February, the Academy of Fine Arts, Alexandria under the auspices of the Dean Professor Mr. Magdy Mousse.
2004 Art – project, both Magdy Shiha (Egypt) and Marianne Lund (Denmark), the project transfers both cultural and aesthetical values. The project works for a culturally diverse artists based on respect for the basic human need to expression and creativity. This cultural exchange event as an instrument to strengthen international understanding and through the culture and art media dialogue connects history and tradition with contemporary challenges and needs. The project had take place at 10th of February, Egypt-Alexandria, Sidi Gabber Palace, referring to the Ministry of culture, Foreign affairs.
2001 Beyond the Cave Of Images, May, The Egyptian Embassy Gallery, under the auspices of the Egyptian Ambassador, Washington, DC, USA.
2001 The Great Falls Art Festival, 1st September until 4th September, Paterson, NJ, USA. Curate by Sue Amoresano, Director of the office of events, Paterson, NJ.
2001 International Cultural Meeting Exhibition, EL TALAKIE, the Atelier for Writers and artists / Alexandria / Egypt, with artists from Egypt and other countries, Curator, MAGDY SHIHA under the Auspices of the Hellenic Institute, Alexandria.
2001 Biennial Port Said National Exhibition (Juried).
2001 Annual Autumn Salon referring to the Ministry of culture, Sidi Gabber Palace.
2000 Performing Art and crafts (stained glass, mosaics), with mixed media.
1999 Solo Drawing exhibition. At the International Culture Center of Foreign Affaires, referring to the Egyptian Ministry of Culture.
1995-98 Participating Different shows at Cairo and Alexandria
1995 Participated in the Exhibition of the contemporary Egyptian Drawing Art in Mashrabeya Gallery (Cairo), Stephanie Angarano, Director, and Curator.
1994 Participated in a group exhibition at the Cultural Hall for Savoring Arts at Shatbby, Alexandria, Egypt, held under the auspices of the Mexican Embassy.
1994 Participated in a group exhibition at Gotte Institute in Alexandria, the German Culture Center, and Curator, Sarwate el Baher.
1993 Alexandria- the Eyes of its Artists, Curates by the National Center for Plastic Arts.
1993 Attending many art shows at the University Of Alexandria, Egypt.
Bibliography: (Reviews, Interviews):
2001 European Radio Program, an Interview with Hannan Samaha Announcer.
2001 Interview at the Herald News, NJ, USA. Michael Clancy, Reporter.
2000 Interview at the National Egyptian Newspaper Al Akbbar, Daily paper, Editor Thorayaa Darwiesh.
1999 National TV interview with artist works, channel 3.
Lectures:
2001 Lecture/ Slide presentation at the National Capital Art Glass Guild, Alexandria, VA, USA, Pat Arnold / President.
2001 Lecture / Talk at the Egyptian Embassy, W. DC USA, and contemporary Egyptian Thoughts.
Commissions / Collections:
2001 Collections (the artist collection) at the Egyptian Embassy at W .DC, USA.
2001 Collection at the stained glass guild, Alexandria, VA, USA.
2001 Paterson, the office of events.
2001 Commissions with contracts and experience documentation Over 300 Stained Glass Projects, Mural Painting, Design Glass Projects for residencies, restaurants, and hotels at Egypt, with contracting rule, since 1990.
My Galleries:
http://www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/a/artistico_mag_shia
http://go.to/art-alexandria
http://www.egyptart.org.eg
THE ARTIST STATEMENT:
The momentum.
The act of Drawing stimulates certain forms that should be put in order to create a field of magnetism to the surface and also the media I use. I discovered that in all the masterworks of art there is a sense of predominant illusion through which visual expression of outside subjects might occur, due to restricting the forms. I used my own prudent eye to perceiving these magnetic fields from which emanate the dual energy and the rhythmic perception of drawing.
Also I had infatuated science with those rhythmic perceptions in my art, as well in the ritual dances of my country. As if each natural existence reflects its own rhythmic internal, that pulses - meaning through its tension created. The dancing figure, in an empty space, which has no boundaries, and which the human form becomes in a moment of the existence a rather hectic circle to a grain of sand. The recalling of the natural forces to act likes drawing. The tree trunk exposes much tension and sublime internal life, which activates a certain inner experience for the memory. Those activities of the natural sources which consternated thorough every content shows much as the same in the act of drawing that I activate in my drawing to share those forces its impact upon our memories to outer existence, so my drawings are to catch the dynamic aggregative reaction to each solid, passing from sight to vision and piercing to the individual experience.
This dynamic activity for both nature and human becomes my raw material for drawing. I don't want to draw a tree; I want to catch the potentialities of the tree's dynamic content, which hold the tree as a grammar for nature. And so for the human figure. I am not portraying, rather concentrating that state of mind for the portrait or the figure. So many of my drawings as well become those sequences to peculiar states of mind. Simply, I intensify my material to a very transparent movement in the charcoal, which I draw, like the dancer or the tree draws its content to the airy spirit. The charcoal transcends these saucy exuberant vibrations that the inside catches in every instant of conscious, so that many of my drawings create that exhaustion attracting the viewer towards what I named 'the internal blare of life.'
Like all other art, my art had its own visual field. That concerned me. I intended to divide the space of a blank white paper to breathe for recalling that natural force to act upon the viewer. That could be much enforcing to do with our memories of the outside experiences. So I'm looking to the unstable and unsatisfied center of the nerve, which give the viewer pulses of uncomfortable senses. My spiritual process to that stream of shapes achieving all the states of mind I begin till the end of drawing pulses. And toward this central perception, I act the momentum.
Press Release :
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
MAGDY SHIHA
Egyptian artist, Magdy Shiha is exhibiting in the United States for
The
First time at Art spaces.
Shiha, of Alexandria, Egypt works in charcoal on paper, his images are
Hauntingly beautiful figurative pieces, very intensely done, for the
Sensitive
Human he is.
The artist has exhibited in shows in Cairo and Alexandria; Exhibits
Such as:
1995: Modern Drawing, Mashrabeya Gallery, and Cairo
1994: Group Exhibition, German Culture Center (Goethe
Institute),
Alexandria
1993: Cultural Palace (under the auspices of the Mexican
Embassy)
APRIL 1, 2001 THRU APRIL 30, 2001
BEYOND THE CAVE OF IMAGES
PRESS RELEASE
For more information
Contact:
MAGDY SHIHA
Over two thousand years ago, Herodotus wrote 'Concerning Egypt
Itself
I shall extend my remarks to a great length, because there is no
Country that
Possesses so many wonders, nor any that has such a number of works
Which defy?
Description.'
This statement rings true when Alexandria, Egypt artist Magdy Shiha
Makes
His exhibition debut.
SHIHA’ images show a sharp distinction between body and soul, the
Artist
Draws on another form of self (ka) with natural shapes, gestures,
Poses,
Attitudes and actions, as if formalized by a primordial commandment.
These ambiguous and metaphoric charcoals will be on exhibition
April 1, 2001 thru April 30, 2001 at Art spaces,
Washington D, C, the Egyptian Console Culture Center
MD.
Artist reception Friday May 15, 2001 7:00 p.m. Till 10:00p.m.
IMMEDIATE PRESS RELEASE
BEYOND THE CAVE OF IMAGES
MAGDY SHIHA AND OTHERS
ARTSPACES, MARYLAND, MAY 15TH
The artists come from diverse backgrounds. They have developed innovative strategies, sensitive to their individuality but successfully communicating with a broad audience. Although the works are very personal, each informed by specific experiences and influences, they also encourage a second level interpretation that is larger, more universal and evocative, which art becomes the vehicle through which to explore and learn about one another .In striking a balance between the personal and the transcendental, each artist forges a unique means of communication. This to be celebrated as a positive forum of exchange. It is in relating between worlds, artists and audience, content and form, which the artists shape their strategies, which they choose to communicate.
Magdy Shiha
Biography and Resume
Residence : 203 5738548
67, Mortada st , Schultz
Alexandria , Egypt
Shihang10@yahoo.com
Magdy Shiha born in Cairo (Egypt)1962 . Shiha started his artistic career in (Alex) 1983 science he was studying engineering ,he says ,practicing art deepen my wondering about the human .The necessity to draw was uneasy vague discontent . Shiha expresses his unwillingness to leave his own special approach to experience through imagination , he pointed out to improvised qualities in drawing and improvisation as the union of deep feeling with profound thought , the fine balance of observing with sight- memory .Shiha drawings examines all the variable moments to the human , such that the artist experienced to draw a hauntingly beautiful figurative charcoals, very intensively done for the sensitive human he is . These ambiguous and metaphoric charcoal images show a sharp distinction between body and soul.
The artist draws on another form of self (ka) with natural shapes , gestures ,poses, attitudes and actions as if formalized by primordial commandment .The artist of Alexandria , Egypt works in ink on paper or charcoal , his pieces reflect his intensity and his passion for the human figure and all the facts that it encompasses . His figurative works , commands of the viewer to see parts of themselves , parts that are either floating , dancing , swirling and fascinated by life with wonder like the eyes of a child. Or the hauntingly beautiful , yet alluring aspects that we do not want to see , or acknowledge about ourselves , the deep roots of our sub- consciousness . Shiha drawings embark on the positive and negative forces that drive all the human beings , he puts ourselves in front of us , as if has looked into our very souls . He showed many solo and group exhibitions in Egypt and outside , also scheduled to exhibit at Artspaces MD, USA April 2001 and Mexico .
MAGDY SHIHA
Residence : 203 5738548
67, Mortada st , Schultz , Alexandria, Egypt
shihang10@yahoo.com
1962 Born in Cairo , currently living in Alexandria.
1989 Graduated from the faculty of engineering , Alexandria university.
1993 Participated with several drawing and painting exhibitions.
1993 ( Alexandria in the eyes of its artists ) held by the national center for plastic arts.
1994 Participated in a group exhibition at Gote institute in Alexandria (the German culture center).
1994 Participated in a group exhibition at the cultural palace for savoring art in shatby , held under the auspices of the MEXICAN EMBASSY.
1995 Participated in the exhibition of the contemporary Egyptian drawing art in Mashrabeya gallery.(Cairo)
1999 Solo drawing exhibition at the international cultural center of foreign affaires the Ministry of Culture
1994 / 1999 Performing several applied art works accompanied by the internal architecture such as stained glass , mural design, mosaics ,mural drawing .
2000 Performing an applied art with mixed media .
2000 Art salon group exhibition(Winter Salon) Alexandria .
2000 Biennial Port Said National Exhibition ( Juried)
2001 An international cultural meeting exhibition EL TALAKI the fine art museum Alexandria with artists from Egypt and other countries , Curator Magdy Shiha .
2001 BEYOND THE CAVE OF IMAGES , Art spaces , April , May , California , MD . ( Two persons , Markley , American / Shiha , Egyptian ) J.R.Rossman Director ,Curator
2001 DARKEN THE VISION , The Lebanese Club , June/ July , Mexico City , Mexico , Solo Exhibition (Invitation)
Art Works At The Web Site:
E mail Address :
almadarstudio@hotmail.com
Phone Number : 012-316-3323
MY GALLERIES :
http://go.to/art-alexandria
http://www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/a/artistico_mag_shia
THE ARTIST STATEMENT:
Momentum.
The act of Drawing stimulates certain forms that should be put in order to create a field of magnetism to the surface and also the media I use. I discovered that in all the masterworks of art there is a sense of predominant illusion through which visual expression of outside subjects might occur, due to restricting the forms. I used my own prudent eye to perceiving these magnetic fields from which emanate the dual energy and the rhythmic perception of drawing.
Also I had infatuated science with those rhythmic perceptions in my art, as well in the ritual dances of my country. As if each natural existence reflects its own rhythmic internal, that pulses - meaning through its tension created. The dancing figure, in an empty space, which has no boundaries, and which the human form becomes in a moment of the existence a rather hectic circle to a grain of sand. The recalling of the natural forces to act like drawing. The tree trunk exposes much tension and sublime internal life which activates a certain inner experience for the memory. Those activities of the natural sources which consternated thorough every content shows much as the same in the act of drawing that I activate in my drawing to share those forces its impact upon our memories to outer existence, so my drawings are to catch the dynamic aggregative reaction to each solid, passing from sight to vision and piercing to the individual experience.
This dynamic activity for both nature and human becomes my raw material for drawing. I don't want to draw a tree, I want to catch the potentialities of the tree's dynamic content which hold the tree as a grammar for nature. And so for the human figure. I am not portraying, rather concentrating that state of mind for the portrait or the figure. So many of my drawings as well become those sequences to peculiar states of mind. Simply, I intensify my material to a very transparent movement in the charcoal, which I draw, like the dancer or the tree draws its content to the airy spirit. The charcoal transcends these saucy exuberant vibrations that the inside catches in every instant of conscious, so that many of my drawings create that exhaustion attracting the viewer towards what I named 'the internal blare of life.'
Like all other art, my art had its own visual field. That concerned me. I intended to divide the space of a blank white paper to breathe for recalling that natural force to act upon the viewer. That could be much enforcing to do with our memories of the outside experiences. So I'm looking to the unstable and unsatisfied center of the nerve, which give the viewer pulses of uncomfortable senses. My spiritual process to that stream of shapes achieving all the states of mind I begin till the end of drawing pulses. And toward this central perception, I act the momentum.
Press Release :
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Egyptian artist, Magdy Shiha is exhibiting in the United States for
the
first time at Artspaces.
Shiha, of Alexandria, Egypt works in charcoal on paper, his images are
hauntingly beautiful figurative pieces, very intensely done, for the
sensitive
human he is.
The artist has exhibited in shows in Cairo and Alexandria; Exhibits
such as:
1995 : Modern Drawing, Mashrabeya Gallery, Cairo
1994 : Group Exhibition, German Culture Center ( Goethe
Institute ),
Alexandria
1993 : Cultural Palace ( under the auspices of the Mexican
Embassy )
APRIL 1,2001 THRU APRIL 30, 2001
BEYOND THE CAVE OF IMAGES
PRESS RELEASE
For more information
Contact:
Over two thousand years ago, Herodotus wrote ' Concerning Egypt
itself
I shall extend my remarks to a great length, because there is no
country that
possesses so many wonders, nor any that has such a number of works
which defy
description.'
This statement rings true when Alexandria, Egypt artist Magdy Shiha
makes
his exhibition debut.
Shihas' images show a sharp distinction between body and soul, the
artist
draws on another form of self ( ka ) with natural shapes, gestures,
poses,
attitudes and actions, as if formalized by a primordial commandment.
These ambiguous and metaphoric charcoals will be on exhibition
April 1, 2001 thru April 30, 2001 at Artspaces,
California,
MD.
Artist reception Friday April 6, 2001 7:00 p.m. till 10:00p.m.
IMMEDIATE PRESS RELEASE
BEYOND THE CAVE OF IMAGES
Marianne Lund AND Magdy Shiha
ARTSPACES , MARYLAND, APRIL 1/2001
The artists come from diverse backgrounds . They have developed innovative strategies , sensitive to their individuality but successfully communicating with a broad audience . Although the works are very personal , each informed by specific experiences and influences , they also encourage a second level interpretation that is larger , more universal and evocative , which art becomes the vehicle through which to explore and learn about one another .In striking a balance between the personal and the transcendental , each artist forges a unique means of communication . This to be celebrated as a positive forum of exchange . It is in relating between worlds , artists and audience , content and form , that the artists shape their strategies which they choose to communicate .
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