Hisham El Zeiny
Egypt
email:
isham_el_zen@yahoo.de
Artist's Statement
I do collages, collages of thought, so to say,
fragments using materials and sources that I process,
inhabited by socio-cultural codes, expressing an urge of
diving into history, the social, the suffering self, the
resistance of consumerism.
Thinking of globalization in contemporary art,
globalization and/ or versus regionalism, I
can only find myself in the contextual, meaning
within ' cultural texture', the threads that make
up a cultural carpet. If the challenge of global
art lies in the art(y)ficial, the designing of
'it ', or even the new critical benchmark in art, “are
you influenced by the correct art era?” then I'd
rather find myself in a kind of hybrid arte povera-minimalist
tradition, with a strong affinity to the organic.
Invitation
harmony between east and west
that shouldn't be a hard request
artists here working at their best
with positive feelings in their chest
committed and passionate,
they'll pass the test
harmony between west and east,
east and west isn't that the quest
thanks to St. John’s for providing that nest
happily admiring visitors will do the rest
everyone on this earth is only a guest
In my work shown in this exhibition I evoke something
like a sacred "lotus lake", in a state of total harmony
as these flowers float there. They are also a symbol of
yoga meditation, as they could stand for any kind of
transcendence. Reaching that state of balance and
enlightenment within the self means harmony for me, and
as long as you're out of struggle and war within
yourself, you do not project aggression and anger unto
anything outside of yourself...in short, harmony between
East and West starts from within, that is the reason for
me using that symbolism
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Invitation
4500 LE (US$ 820)
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