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Artist Statement:
I'm just trying to get busy
with my work as serious as it
required for such an
ambitious. considering my
heritage and identity as an
Egyptian. unforgettable of
course my position as an
contemporary painter....
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Artist Exhibitions:
* In common exhibitions:
- Faculty of fine arts
students' exhibitions .form
the year 1992:
1994.
- The French cultural center
of Heliopolis.
Competition of youth and
Heliorama exhibition 1995.
- Center of arts
Salon of Youth competitions
the seventh, ninth, tenth and
autumn
Exhibition
1998.2000.2002.2003.
- Picasso gallery of arts
The...
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Artist Galleries:
KARIM FRANCIS
CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY
Baehler’s Mansions: 157, 26th
July St.,3rd Floor,Zamalek,
Cairo. Egypt
Tel.: +202 736 2183 - 010 667
4823 - www.karimfrancis.com...
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Al-Ahram Weekly
1999
Monstrous transformations : Youssef Rakha meets a generation of artists
Islam Zaher strikes a level-headed balance between the urge to express an inner feeling and the obligation to represent the world in a realistic, hence accessible, way. Existential male figures, semi-nude, occupy nondescript interiors in which they seem to be waiting endlessly. "The idea started with my graduation project, In which I wanted to portray that sense of disappointment, of disillusion. This seems to beset so many of us as soon as we start out. I have been sticking with the same topic. Since then, though of course it has gone through various stages of development. I think we have an obligation to portray the world as we see it, as it presents itself to us, and there is no doubt that our lives have been beset by disappointments. It's easy to say that young artists. should follow in the footsteps of their teachers, but our world is an altogether different one, and you can I only respond to what you have... I always work with I models, and they must be people I know, not just anyone. I must know about their lives and their feelings and their particular disappointments so as to capture the truth. As you can see these people are waiting, they're disillusioned and almost in despair. And this is my sense of the situation we are in... I think it's great that the artists here are so different to each other, even though they're familiar with each other's work. There is a lot of peer learning going on."
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