Egypt

Posted on Thursday, 11th October, 2007

 

  George Firky

 

Exhibition Dates: October 22 – November 15 ,2007    

installation: October 14-20, 2007   

Opening Reception: monday ,October 22,2007

 from 6-9 pm 

Open daily from noon to 9:00 p.m., except Fridays

 The New Falaki Academic Center. second floor
 Open daily from noon to 9:00 p.m., except Fridays

 

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Department of Performing and Visual Arts

American University in Cairo

113 Kasr El Aini Street

P.O. Box 2511

Cairo 11511, Egypt

Tel 797.6373

pva@aucegypt.edu

www.aucegypt.edu/academic/pva

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George Fikry, born in Cairo, studied fine arts and earned a PhD in 200. He is now a professor of art education at Helwan Univeristy. His most important art projects include Earth Methodology (1993 - 1996), Successions of Soul, Body and Dream ( 1997 - 1999 ), Legend Successions ( 2000 - 2001), Triple of Chamber Painting ( 2001- 2004) and Narration Icons ( 2005 - 2007).

 

Fikry is experienced im many visual and numerical and numerical art fields. He uses different materials and computer techniques in areas such as animation, video art, photography, graphics, installations, perfomance art and digital video. He has also done imaginative and expressive narration of Egypt and its social, cultural and political changes. Fikry has chosen ritual symbols and signals that have iconic and folklore deepness, such visual, social and dogmatic scenarios, with social humanitarian relationships intereacting among people, faith, life and the future.

 

Fikry deals with issues such as identity, viewing the outside world, and regaining regional visual shapes and character. These connect with the African scene as a whole and promote cultural dialogue all over the world. Fikry is also interested in personal meaning related to changeable narration in the form of compound symbols, current changealbe events and updating these frames through different available expressions. He uses different shapes, technologies and strategies, as well as semantic and materialised culture, to show detailed paintings of two- and three- dimensional things that represent contemporary, oriental and Egyptian culture.

 

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