Resurrection of Soad Hosni - pop art

collage, mixed media 
the Egyptian artist Soad Hosni
inspired by the great andy warhol
Winter 2012

Photo Assemblage

Spring Exhibition, Cairo. 2011
Pinhole Camera, B&W paper. 

The 2nd Sea Symposium 2010

In the Middle of the Earth, Under the auspices of the fine arts sector and ministry of culture, opens the night of Friday the 4th of June, the second sea symposium organized by Cairo-based artist Haytham Nawar at the Qaytbey Citadel in Alexandria.
In this project i wanted to interpret the word"In the Middle of the Earth" to the closest meaning to a person and his own world. the "self" as his own believe about the world.
what first comes to mind when mentioning the sea are: the horizon, depth, secrets and reflections. the last mentioned is what i wanted to assemble with the choice of the mirror as a clear reflecting surface as well as the water -sea- surface. and the transparent plastic is expressing the view from below the surface.

CADRE, Painting & Patchwork.

الفوتوغرافيا من الصورة البدائية إلى تنوعيات المعالجة المعاصرة

تقفز بنا الفنانة داليا رفعت قفزة غير إعتيادية من الفوتوغرافيا البدائية وكلاسيكيتها من خلال تجاربها المتعددة لتقنية الحجرة السوداء Camera Obscura   وهي لاتينية تعني "الصندوق الأسود" وتميزها بجماليات الأبيض والأسود من تضاد تارة ومن تنوع وثراء تدرج رماديتها تارة أخرى..

حيث تميزت أعمال الفنانة الفوتوغرافية بتكويناتها المختارة بعناية وموضوعاتها شديدة الإنسانية.

بحث الفنانة الدائم عن الذاكرة الإنسانية من خلال الوسيط الفوتوغرافي خاصة وعبر الفن عامة من تجاربها السابقة في فن الكولاج بتنوعه اللوني وتعقيدات التحكم، أعطى لها الجرأة على خلق رؤية معاصرة بمعالجة جديدة لذاكرتها الإنسانية الفوتوغرافية، من خلال فن زخرفي مطرز باللون وهو فن الصورة المخلطة Patchwork   أي حياكة قطع النسج المختلفة لتكوين تصميم "كيان" أشمل واكبر مع مزج كمالي "متمم" بالألوان الزيتية لتكوين بناء بصري لذاكرتها.

وإعادة الإحياء لشخوصها اللا نهائية ...

إن أعمال الفنانة تطرح تساؤلات أمام المتلقي، مثل من هم تلك الشخوص؟ ما هو تاريخهم والأهم من ذلك، ما الغرض من إعادة إحيائهم؟ تتركنا الأعمال بإجابات شخصية تختلف بكيفية التلقي.

هيثم نوار

يناير 2010

Photography: from the Basic Picture to Contemporary Graphic Processing Techniques

 The artist, Dahlia Rafaat, jumps in an unusual way from basic classic photography.  Her experience with different techniques of the black room, “camera obscura,”- featured by its beauty in the contrasting nature of black and white, with variables and richness in gray gradients- exhibits her work's components and its humane topics.  The usual search of the artist for humane memories through the photographic mediator and from her previous experiences in collage- with the variations in colors and the complexity of controlling it- gave her the courage to create a contemporary vision with a new treatment to her humane memory.  To create a well-built version of her memory and to revitalize her endless personality, the artist uses a decorative art embroidered with color, the mixture of photo “patchwork” art- pieces of different cloth sewn to create a design “core” greater and superior- with a perfect mixing of oil colors.  The artist's work forces the receiver to ask: Who are those personalities?  What is their history? And the more important question of- What is the point of their revitalization?  The artworks leave us with differing answers collected from the personal experiences of each receiver. 

                                                                                                                            Haythem Nawar

                                                                                                                            January 2010

WALLS CAN NOT BE DISPLAYED

artists: Aya Tarek AKA: Azaritta beauty queen.

Amir Rezk

Amr Ali

Lamia Moghazy

Wensh

Ikon

RANDOM PERSONAL REVIEW 2008

I will start from the end. 
Recently, I can finally talk about my experiment in the stream of photography and Pinhole Camera. In the time of digital art and Hi technology life style, we lose many concepts that mostly relate to the artist himself, his abilities and believes.
 I like to interfere in my art work so I control its core, I don't let myself move with buttons (at the moment, frankly speaking). In my photography the getaway to have this concept achieved. 

I can't really say that I use Pinhole Camera to make photographs, it's more like recording a moment to take much longer time, rather than freezing it in one second shot.

And because I like the idea of controlling the camera manufacturing, and the film developing besides having my own touch; i get to have the produced photos not to look like still shots photography, but more like paintings and charcoal drawings or even sometimes manipulated photos. 

Materials that I used to collect for my paintings and book art are still loading my chests and waiting for the proper time every now and then to get out. 
But Pinhole Camera photography for me, is the door to be free coming in and out the souls of objects, humans, history and documenting the moments of now. 

As an African and Arab living by the Mediterranean, I have a multicultural window helped a lot in forming my mentality and opinions. In my country, it’s a bit difficult to identify ones direction in art, because one might like to paint in the time he gets a very hard criticism that may change his direction or may forces him to even stop, same as the person who would like to make photography, because it’s easier in explaining the composition mistakes. 

It's actually difficult to identify ART at all.

Dahlia Refaat       Alexandria, December 2008

A Stenope' workshop in Etsa, El Menia, Egypt 2008

School children of Etsa, a village that is 20 klm out of El Menia (Egyptian governorate in upper Egypt).

it was a very extraordinary experience for me to lead such groups and teach them pinhole camera photography.

This project was sponsored by "Siraj" in their program of the World AIDS Day 2008 (simple premise of spreading awareness of HIV/AIDS through art)
http://www.sirajnet.org/

cordially, I thank all who helped me in this project:
Aly Abdelmohsen, Mohamed Fawzy Elgammal, Medhat Nasr, Aurelia Frey and most of all Emad Mabrouk.