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Artist Statement:
"Art is every where"
That's the main idea for me. I
am always searching it in the
very modest object.I am a
figurative painter, but lately
I gradually moved from
figurative expressionism
towards abstraction. My
paintings are often kept in
clear colors covering big
areas, without particular
nuances or details.
I try to have a fresh and
spontaneous spirit, and to
deal with new approaches. In
"What's Art", I was trying to
re consider where can Art be:
What is really art?
In it's first element (dot),
in colors? Can I push the
boundaries of what I was doing
and starting a dialogue with
the contemporary tendencies?
In this installation, the dot,
first element of art, plays an
important role, it's become a
cylinder, small and big balls,
and plays in the bottle when
they are inside a make sounds,
and it traces the frontiers
and broke it.
For me, art is joy; it's a way
of playing and being always
like a child, who never stop
asking questions, and this
workshop has been an excellent
opportunity: it was the first
time for me to work in a woman
workshop to exchange ideas,
respective...
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Artist Exhibitions:
My 9th exhibition, "Sea", was
hold at Cairo Atelier, from
May 11 untill May 23, 2008.
It was only about the
differents blue degrees of the
sea (in the painting) and how
it can goes to abstract
minimalist (by using only
white and traces of blue and
yellow, to represent ...
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Rawia Saad Biography:
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Age
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56
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| Gender |
Female
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| Status |
Single
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| Children |
2
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| Religion |
muslim |
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| Education |
Self Taught |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
classic and modern music-photographie-movies-all kinds of littreture |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Other
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Conceptual Art - (1960 - 1975)
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
all good artists in all times
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| Favorite Work of Art |
many
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| Biggest Artistic Inspiration |
all good artists, even they not belong to my tendecies, are good inspiration.
i learn from my both
but the biggest Artist is Nature (lanscapes-human beings-animals,etc) |
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
we born with certain needs to full. I think that working with all arts medium is a necessity for all my emotional feelings |
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| Your Personal Biography |
Current job: Visual artist, translator from French and English into Arabic and journalist at the Middle East News Agency (MENA).
Artistic Medium: photography, painting, drawing, clay, objects, and all other stuff that can be transformed in an artistic object.
Institutional affiliation: Cairo Atelier /syndicat of journalistes.
Solo exhibitions
- The sea, Cairo Atelier, may, 2008.
-Pathes, Gallery Cairo Atelier, 1999.
-One artist show for one night, the International book fare, january 1994.
From the window, Mashrabia Gallery, 1993.
- Daly rhythms, Mashrabia Gallery, 1991.
- (Wirthout title), The Gallery of the Netheirlands Institute of Archaeology, 1990.
-(Wirthout title)The Abdol Moneaam El Sawi Gallery, Nasr city, 1990.
- Beginings #2, Cairo Atelier, 1989.
- Beginings #1, at the libreray of "Dar el Thakafa El Jadida/the new culture" publishing house, 1988.
2- Collective exhibitions
-Palm, my sister, Mashrabia Gallery, 2000.
-Original design for T-shirt, Mashrabia Gallery, 1997.
-New creativities, the 29th International Fare Book, 1997.
-Chairs, Chairs…, Mashrabia Gallery, 1996.
-Drawings, Mashrabia Gallery, 19995.
-First exhibition for the solidarity with the publishing of “Ein”/Eye review, Mashrabia Gallery, 1993.
- Héliorama Annual exhibition, Centre Français de Culture et de Coopération(CCF), 1993.
- Héliorama Annual exhibition; Centre Français de Culture et de Coopération(CCF), 1993
Workshops & collective exhibitions
-Ceramic, workshop [Sawa/together ] at Nathan Doss atelier, may 2008.
- wood cut, workshop [Sawa/together ] at The Town House Gallery, april, 2008.
- "The city- Collage", (workshop [Sawa/together ] at The Town House Gallery, from February 16 to march15 , 2008.
-Dwayer's International Workshop for Women, Alexandria Atelier, January 25- February 8, 2008.
- The Origami Japanese paper, workshop with the Japanese artist Kyoko Ibe, El Nafeza, (2 days) 2007.
- "El Hakiba"/Baggage, Alexandria Atelier, 2007.
-Form through Light# 2, Palace of Art, Gezira, Cairo, 2005.
-Cairo/Alexandria ( running parallel to Imagining the Book# 2), Alexandrina Atelier, 2005.
Imagining the Book# 1, Bibliotheca Alexandrina andAlexandria Atelier, 2002.
Other specifications:
- Volunteer visual art expert of the Center of The Child Worker and his Local Community, (CCWLC) since 2003 (with which she have held 2 exhibitions for the CCWLC (The Sawi weal for culture, Zamalek, 2005, and Cairo Atelier, September 2007).
-Volunteer Visual artist expert at "Anas El Wogoud" Foundation for children with special needs, since 2007.
Books Translated from French into Arabic
- Le Rubis d'Anubis, (roman pour jeune), Katia Sabet, éd.Boustany, Le Caire, 2007.
- Les objets singuliers (the singulars objects), architecture and philosophy, an interview between Jean Nouvel and Jean Baudrillard, « Charkeyat » publishing house, 2003.
- L’Art contemporain, (the contemorary art), by Catherine Millet, “Charkeyat” publishing house, 2002.
- Magritte, by Bernard Noël, Charkeyat publishing house (December 20001).
- Le poème en prose de Baudelaire jusau’à nos jours, (The Prose Poem from Baudelaire until These Days), by Suzanne Bernard, second part, "Charkeyat" publishing house (2000).
- Le Poème en prose de Baudelaire jusqu’à nos jours (The Prose Poem from Baudelaire until These Days), by Suzanne Bernard, Part1, 1998, “Charkeyat” publishing house, (PHD, 800 pages).
- Meurtres pour Mémoire (Murders for Records), by Didier Daeninckx, “Charkeyat” publishing house, Cairo, 1996. .
- Contes et légendes des indiens d’Amérique Latine (The Totem Gift), “Afak el Targama” publishing house, Department of culturel palaces, Cairo, 1995. (Indian stories and legends from Latin America, 45 stories translated from French into Arabic).
Books Translated from English into Arabic
- Averroes, Muslim Scholar, Liz Sonneborn, Philosopher, and physician of the Twelfth century, Elias Modern Press publishing house, Cairo, 2007.
Other artistic Works:
-The painting of the cover and the illustrations of The Fantastic Stories of Imagination, written by Emily Nasrallah (a bilingual edition), Elias Modern Publishing House, Cairo, Egypt, 1994.
The painting of the cover of The Totem Gift (the Arabic translation), "Afak el Targama" , publishing house, Department of cultural palaces, Cairo 1995.
Articles and studies on the artist
Several critics have been written on the artist work, namely by critics Eiz el Dine Naguib and Sabry Hafez and the Norvegian professor Svein Engelstad, in his Doctorate for the University of Oslo “Tendencies in Modern Egyptian Painting”.
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