Summer 2006
By Lori A. Allen Summer 2006 | Gallery Between two worlds. One of extreme grit, isolation and heaviness. Another light, glowing, surreal. The subjects of these photographs are suspended somewhere in between, stretched on a torturer’s rack, neither wholeness nor disintegration their clear fate. Suspended in potential energy searching for release. There is always a straining,…
Spring 2006
Spring 2006 | ArteZine By Mustafa Muharam The following fragments are excerpts from Mustafa Muharam’s book on Ahmed Zaki, which was compiled from the weekly articles that Muharam has written about the late star in the Egyptian weekly al-Qahira. Fragments chosen and translated by Karim Taroussieh. It is so difficult for one to be objective when…
Ali Kaaf
Spring 2006 | Gallery By Ali Kaaf ArteEast introduces the drawings and photography of Ali Kaaf, which are explorations of black itself — as a color, a material and formal presence, and a set of possibilities and foreclosures. More broadly, Kaaf’s works are visual discussions of the contrasts of light and form and their material possibilities. These…
Joe Tarrab
Spring 2006 | Gallery By Joe Tarrab L’une des démarches fondamentales de la peinture moderne et contemporaine consiste à se débarrasser de ce qui n’est pas indispensable pour ne garder que ce qui est insubstituable, nécessaire et suffisant pour qu’il y ait œuvre picturale. Dans ce retour à l’essence ultime, la représentation figurative a été délaissée…
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…
