Spring 2006
Ali Kaaf
Spring 2006 | Gallery By Muhammad Al-Ameri The main hall of Darat al-Funun was clad with the beautiful black, a black created by the artist Ali ‘Kaaf’, who presents a particular way of thinking about ‘creative’ artistic work that is far from colorful. Ali studied at the hands of the Syrian artist Marwan Kassab Bashy, who…
Spring 2006 | Gallery By Jaime-Faye Bean and Sarah A. Rogers The work of Ali Kaaf visualizes the simultaneous emergence and dissolution of form, depth, and light. In the series Aswad (2002-03), thick lines of black ink bulldoze across white paper. Sometimes only a corner of the surface is left untouched so that the thin paper curls under…
Livia Alexander
Spring 2006 | ArteZine By Livia Alexander I well remember the first time I saw an Ahmed Zaki film. The year was 1998. It was late at night and I was sitting in my Dokki apartment taking a break from Arabic homework That night, Channel Two was showing the film (The Wife of an Important Man,…
Spring 2006 | ArteZine By Walid Al Kachabe Ahmed Zaki is one of the many legendary figures of Egyptian cinema. During his lifetime (1949–2005), he reached the status of icon in Arab culture, since he played the roles of some of the key figures of these cultures, such as both presidents Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar…
Winter 2005
Jessica Winegar
Winter 2005 | Gallery By Jessica Winegar ArteEast is excited to launch its Virtual Gallery with Egyptian-American artist Amina Mansour, whose work embodies the spirit of ArteEast’s interest in the intersection of different histories and cultures within and through the Middle East. Mansour’s mixed media works explore the relationship between the antebellum U.S. South and the cotton-growing…
Winter 2005 | Gallery By Jessica Winegar Her speech is nothing, Yet the unshaped use of it doth move The hearers to collection Hamlet Amina Mansour’s Chapter 15: A Failed Contemporary Attempt at Being a Modern Day Ophelia is the latest installment in her series of works that tell the story of the restrained correspondences and…
Kerstin Zurbrigg
Winter 2005 | Gallery By Kerstin Zurbrigg Alexandria based artist Amina Mansour is a member of a new generation of artists working within Egypt and within a context which both fuels and problematizes a critical position. In her recent work, Mansour has painstakenly fabricated a series of botanical shapes from a material rife with poetic and…
Fall 2005
Sharon LaVon Parker
Fall 2005 | Gallery By Sharon LaVon Parker Golnaz Fathi is a young Iranian artist whose paintings have been exhibited in a number of important galleries and museums in the Middle East, Europe and the United States over the past twelve years. Her work is transnational both in conception and in execution as it incorporates her…
Fall 2005 | Gallery By Sharon LaVon Parker ArteEast is excited to present the extraordinary paintings of Golnaz Fathi, a young artist living and working in Tehran. Her works are at once painterly explorations of color and form that integrate largely illegible calligraphy, as well as open-ended invitations to meditate on the silence and randomness that…
Summer 2005
Joe Tarrab, Kirsten Scheid
Summer 2005 | Gallery By Joe Tarrab and Kirsten Scheid Rafik Majzoub is a rising star in the Lebanese art scene, heading towards international recognition for his works which traverse the rich territory between the personal and the social. His paintings and larger scale conceptual pieces explore the many facets of this territory — including the arrogance of…
