Adel El Siwi
One of the most famous and influential contemporary Egyptian artists, Adel El Siwi, mostly known for his monumental faces, delights us here with a body of work which is the fruit of six years dedicated to an intense reflection on the nature of the animal and its ambivalent relationship with the human being. Adel El Siwi’s impressive and very personal painting technique combined with his ability to continuously update his narrative skills, as well as his unshakable faith in the possibility of giving birth to new worlds by means of painting, give birth to a body of work which is at the same time strongly sensual and conceptually lucid. El Siwi’s colourful large canvases are equipped with a dazzling interior light, as if proclaiming a revelation, each telling a full story of its own. In his long series of studies of the different typologies of animals he attempt to seize the “personality” that lies behind each creature’s appearance. El Siwi sets up a fine network of cultured citations drawn from literature, cinema and art history, whereby he appropriates other artists’ animals, reviving and reinventing them, to achieve a universe where every creature, whether animal or human, participates fully-fledged, not subject to hierarchical classification, but as a protagonist.
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Work
The latest body of artist's work: In the Presence of the Animal | 27th of April - 31st of May, 2017
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In the Presence of the Animal
Book by: Adel El Siwi Pages: 303 Text by: Stefania Angarano, Mohamed Mekhzangi, Adel El Siwi Year: 2017 Book and paintings available at Mashrabia Gallery. |
In The Presence of the Animal, 2017
Mixed media on canvas, 140x170 cm
Mixed media on paper, 70x100 cm
Mixed media on paper, 50x70 cm
Mixed media on paper, 35x50 cm
Faces
Mixed media on paper, 70x100 cm
Mixed media on paper, 50x70 cm
Large size canvas
