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| Moataz Nasr | |
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Born in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1961 Moataz Nasr grew up in a home where his father and aunt painted. The smell of oil paints was a familiar one and probably accounts for his interest in art from a very young age. A natural development would have been for Moataz to study fine arts but his parents were against it. For them art could be a hobby but not the basis for a career so he chose to study economics. |
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Dream
2006 |
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Man Made
2006 |
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| A new installation of wall sculptures and photographic diptychs. These depict men and horses that seem subjected, equivalent and to have interchangeable roles, masks that preclude the possibility of seeing and speaking. The artist’s focus shifts here to a political dimension, stressing the human inability to relate in a concrete and active way to the political and state system. |
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Insecure
2006 |
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| Insecure consists of three large photographic prints made with a very special sun printing technique. Nasr comments: “I’m using a very ancient method for producing images that no one uses any more, it’s called ‘Van Dick’ or ‘Sun Print’”. The negative is transferred onto drawing paper treated with an emulsion and exposed to the sun until the image begins to develop. Only then is the photo processed with industrial chemical elements. This method enables the artist to personally control every phase of the work, guaranteeing the originality and distinctiveness of every photo. The subjects of these photos are Middle Eastern faces reflected in the water, portraits of people but also portraits of a society. Insecure develops a central theme in the poetics of the artist: human insecurity, the instability of our existence and the impossibility of recognizing and being ourselves. |
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Father & Son
2005 |
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| Father and Son began as a simple documentation of a dialogue between the artist and his father. With the need to resolve familial conflicts in a patriarchal society, Nasr was more attached to his mother than his father. He addresses her primarily as the loving care-giver, housewife, and finally as the woman deprived from marital affection. After his mother’s death Nasr felt an obligation to put her soul and his mind at rest by confronting his father on the faults of their relationship, be that between a man and his wife or a father and his son. During one of Nasr’s visits to his father’s home in Cairo he set-up a video-camera to record their conversation as they delved into sensitive subjects regarding his father’s relationship with his mother and his relationships with other women. During the making of this video Nasr used two camera’s that would finally accommodate the presentation of this piece to an audience. In this work Nasr searched for reconciliation with a father who he had grown apart and disconnected from . The work surprisingly shows his father’s honesty and steadfastness in answering these sensitive questions creating a bridge of understanding and a potential degree of closure for the artist, which we as an audience can perhaps learn and reflect on in our own experiences. |
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The Echo
2004 |
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| In 1968 Abdel Rahman El Sharkawi wrote a novel entitled “El Ard”, “The Earth”. It discussed the Egyptian struggle against the British Occupation at a time when the World was suffering from the economic depression, specifically, the year 1933. In 1969, Youssef Shahine took the novel and turned it into a movie, keeping the same title, “El Ard”. The main character of the movie is Abou Swelam and his role is played by Egyptian outstanding actor Mahmoud El Meligui.
One of the most important sequences of the movie takes place in a village house in which the male villagers are gathered. In that sequence Abou Swelem expresses his frustration with the Egyptian people’s attitude and how passive they have become. This 4mn 29sec monologue is the center piece of the movie and until today, the impact it left in the memory of all Arabs and Egyptians is alive; it moved the people for it very accurately reflected the state of society at that time.
In the year 2003, this work was conceived with a video of Egyptian story teller, Chirine el Ansary, who stands in the middle of a coffee shop in down town Cairo and spontaneously recites the monologue as it was in the movie, delivering it with the passion and immediacy it held then.
In The Echo, the two sequences are projected facing one another, echoing each other, highlighting how nothing has changed, what could be said in 1933 and 1968, remains valid in 2003; the political and social situation has remained stagnant over the past 70 years. One is left with the resonance of what Abou Swelem says and what the storyteller in the Caireen coffee shop repeats, “we are living in words nothing but words”. |
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Tabla (drum)
2003 |
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| Tabla, is inspired by the saying, empty vessels give a louder sound, which is illustrated in the Kalila Wa Dimna* story: The Fox and The Drum. A fox hears a strange and very loud sound coming from a drum hanging on a tree. The branches of the tree, moved by the wind, hit the drum and make that noise. Amazed by the size of the drum and the power of the sound, the fox jumps on the drum thinking that it would be as full of flesh, as it is big and loud. The drum falls, breaks; it is empty and fragile. Disappointed, the fox then realises that the lowest, ugliest and shallowest of things are precisely those that make the loudest sounds…
Tabla is composed of a video of a beautiful encrusted tabla held by a tabla player of whom you can only see the hands. The percussionist holds the instrument between his legs in a very sensual way, as if holding a woman’s body. He plays different rhythms, expressing different moods and emotions; anger, love, war, spirituality, …. In front of the screen, on the floor, hundreds of raw Nile-mud tablas of different sizes, are randomly disposed. The tablas respond to the beats of the main tabla on the screen, repeating the rhythms, softly or loudly, as if reacting to the given beats. Tabla plays with the relationship between ruler and ruled, the idea of manipulation, the loss of ability to judge for ones self, the emptiness of the World’s leaders. “Empty vessels give a louder sound”, don’t they? *The tabla is an Egyptian traditional percussion instrument, it is the Egyptian drum. *Kalila Wa Dimna is a collection of animal stories based on the Indian Pancatantra, it was introduced to the Arab World in the 8th Century A.D. |
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Fiat Nasr
2002 |
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| The Fiat Nasr was the first car to be made in Egypt. At that time, it was a great leap in Egyptian economy. Nasr means victory in Arabic. The Fiat Nasr is no longer made. Today you find many of them broken with airless tires, dumped on the streets. Sixteen cubes, 50 x 50 x 50cm each, like a children’s game, put together to create six different pictures of flat tires from six different Fiat Nasr cars. The viewer is invited to play with the cubes and rearrange them as they wish, in a room looking like a playground. |
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An ear of mud, another of doug
2001 |
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| While you hear the buzzing of thousands of flies you follow a dark corridor, which leads to a room. On your right a huge wall is covered with 2000 sculpted ears, on the opposite wall, a video is projected. The video shows indifferent faces, people of all ages and all walks of life lifting their shoulders as to say “and why should I care?”. An Ear of Mud, Another of Dough is an Egyptian saying, based on one of Goha’s tales*. One day Goha comes home, happy as usual. His wife is busy baking. Upon seeing him, she immediately starts complaining: -“Ahhh, in this horrible house, there is nothing! Your children are terrible! You never help! We need more money!” She keeps shouting at Goha who takes some of her dough and pushes it into his right ear to avoid hearing her but she carries on. Goha runs to the backyard and his wife follows him, continuing her complaints: “You can’t go on like this! Talk to your children! Fix the roof! Set the table! Do this! Do that!”. Goha grabs some mud from the ground and pushes it into his left ear and then looks at her, smiling,happy, indifferent. He nods his head up and down, he cannot hear anymore, he has An Ear of Mud and Another of Dough.
* Goha is a popular character from Egyptian Folk Stories. |
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| Moataz Nasr Born in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1961. Lives and works in Cairo. Solo Exhibitions 2006 - Darat al Funun, The Khalid Shoman Foundation, Amman, Jordan - Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy 2005 - The Echo, Touchstones Art Gallery, Rochdale, UK 2004 - Falaki Gallery, The American University in Cairo, Egypt - Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt 2003 - Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt - Franco Riccardo Gallery, Napoli, Italy 2002 - Franco Riccardo Gallery, Napoli, Italy - "Espace-La Bodega" Gallery, Cairo, Egypt 2001 - Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt 2000 - Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt - Egyptian Cultural Center in Paris, France 1999 - Al Ahram House Gallery, London, UK - Akhnaton Gallery, Centre of Fine Art, Cairo, Egypt Group Exhibitions 2006 - For Lebanon, Gallery Ibda'a, Cairo, Egypt - ECHIGO-TSUMARI Triennale, Japan - AFRICA REMIX, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan - Ghosts of Self and State, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia - CCA 94th Annual Conference, CCA – College Art Association, Boston, USA 2005 - Forming with Light, Palace of Art, Opera House, Cairo, Egypt - Bamako Biennale for African Photography, Mali - Yokohama Triennale, Japan - AFRICA REMIX, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France - “Mediterranean Encounters”, Sicily, Italy - 4x4, Artists Space, Broadway, New York, USA - Imagining the Book, Alexandria Library, Egypt - Sharjah Biennale, U.A.E. - Loose Your Identity, Kunstverein Kreis, Ludwigsburg, Germany - Museum of Contemporary Art, Bahea, Salvador, Brazil - French Cultural Center, Damascus, Syria - AFRICA REMIX, Hayward Gallery, London, UK 2004 - Museo del Cristallo, Colle, Italy - La Forma delle Nuvole, 'Arte all Arte 10', curated by Achille Bonto Oliva and - James Putnam, Montalcino, San Gimignano, Poggibonsi, Colle di Val D'Elsa, - Siena, Buonconvento, Italy - Sneeze 80x80, Athens, Greece - Castello di Trani, Bari, Italy - Le Opera e I giorni, Triennale, Certosa di Padula, Italy - 25th Sao Paolo Biennale, Brazil - Milly Pozzi Arte Contemporanea, Como, Italy - Bosane Biennale, South Korea - AFRIKA REMIX, Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf, Germany - Dak'art Biennale, Dakar, Senegal 2003 - 'Miart', Milano Art Fair, Milan, Italy - Bologna Art Fair, Bologna, Italy - Espacio Arte Contemporaneo Camargo, Spain - Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy - Disorientation, House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany - Bologna Fair, Bologna, Italy 2002 - Unplugged, Arts Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria - Video Marathon, Chisinau, Moldova - Galleria Civica d'Arte Contemporanea Premio Suzzara, Italy - Dakar Biennale, Senegal - You Can Touch, Espace Karim Francis, Cairo, Egypt 2001 - Intresecus-Extrincus, Studio Casoli, Milan, Italy - Ambiente: Le Area Non Protette, Palazzo Pretorio Sala del Consiglio Communale, Sandrio, Italy - Cairo Modern Art Exhibition in Denhag, Holland - 8th International Cairo Biennale, Opera Arts Palace, Egypt - Participated with Martin McInally in Al Nitaq Festival, Downtown, Cairo, Egypt 2000 - The Palm Tree, Mashrabia Gallery, Cairo, Egypt - …with Egyptian and Italian artists, Gezira Art Center, Cairo, Egypt - Prepared & participated in Jerusalem art exhibition, Hanager, Opera House, Cairo, Egypt - La Bodega, Cairo, Egypt - Cairo International Biennale for Ceramics, Opera House Arts Palace, Cairo, Egypt - Nitaq Festival of Art, Downtown, Cairo, Egypt 1999 - 27th National Exhibition for Fine Arts, Opera House Arts Palace, Cairo, Egypt - Small Artworks at the Center of Art Cairo, Egypt 1998 - 26th National Exhibition for Fine Arts, Akhnaton Center of Art, Cairo, Egypt - The First Show for Artists over 35 years and honored, Museum of Fine Arts (Hussein Sobhy), Alexandria, Egypt - 4th Cairo International Biennale for Ceramics, Center of Art, Cairo, Egypt - The Days of Kom Ghorab, Cairo, Hanager Gallery, Egypt 1997 - 25th National Exhibition for Fine Arts, Center of Art, Cairo, Egypt - Heliorama exhibition at the French Cultural Center, Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt 1996 - 24th National Exhibition for Fine Arts, Center of Art, Cairo, Egypt 1995 - 7th Salon of Youth, Center of Art, Cairo, Egypt Public Art 2001 Permanent installation at La Bodega lounge (Hurricane), Cairo, Egypt 2000 Permanent installation at Diwan bookstore in Zamalek, Cairo, Egypt Workshops 2002 - Close Up Workshop, 3 Egyptian artists with 3 Swedish artists, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt - Workshop The Open Studio in Townhouse Gallery Cairo (10 Egyptian and 10 foreign artists) 2000 Participated in the Fashion Design workshop at the University of Applied Arts, ending in a number of exhibition in the Gezira Arts Center, Townhouse, Zeinab Khatoun and the Goethe Institute in Cairo, Egypt Others 2000 Member of the Jury Board at the 15th Art Festival Sondrio, Italy Commissary of the Egyptian Contemporary Art exhibition in Nicosia, Cyprus 1996/98 Participated in Kom Ghorab Project in Old Cairo, Egypt Awards 2005 Grand Prize, Sharjah Biennale, U.A.E 2004 Ministry of Culture Prize, Dak’art Biennale, Dakar, Senegal 2002 The Biennale Prize, Dakar Biennale, Senegal 2001 Grand Prize, 8th International Cairo Biennale. Opera Arts Palace, Egypt 1997 Prize of Painting, Heliorama exhibition, French Cultural Center, Cairo, Egypt 1995 Third Prize, 7th Salon of Youth, Center of Art, Cairo, Egypt |
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