ART0055

ART0055


Serial Number: ART0055

Valuation:
BHD 150

Medium:
Oil on canvas

Type:
Landscape

Style:
Impressionism

Date:
2001

Size:
30 x 30

Artist:
Basim Magdy, Egyptian (1977 - Basim is an artist who lives and works in Cairo. Magdy rarely throws anything away. Because he is both multidisciplinary - he makes drawings, sculptures, animations, wall-size murals and enormous installations - and prodigious - he has had eight exhibitions, four of them solo, in the first six months of 2007 alone - his workspace is packed with the refuse of past and future projects.
Magdy, 29, also literally works where he lives - I find this situation very convenient, he says, it saves me a lot of driving and it also saves me a lot of time and energy . Magdy was born in 1977 in Assiut, a small city by Egyptian standards, in the Nile Valley south of Cairo. His father is an artist and Magdy grew up surrounded by art and a library of books about art, mostly modern.
Reference http www.dailystar.com.lb Culture Art 2007 Jul-03 115602-basim-magdys-art-of-the-ambiguous-and-absurd.ashx

Status: Display

Description:
Village scene. The work is part of series of a family walking on the streets of a certain village where they met residents. A 2001 painting in oil on canvas medium by Basim Magdy.