Hend Adnan
Egypt
hend_adnan@yahoo.com
Biography
Born in 1970, Cairo, Egypt, Hend lives and works in
Cairo.
Hend Adnan received a B.A. from the Painting Department
of the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cairo (1992). She has
shown her work in many national and international
exhibitions, festivals and meetings and her work is
represented in both Egyptian and international
collections.
Adnan treasures the ability to work freely in oil colors
and with live models, respecting shadows in all their
forms, working on psychological moods and feelings into
realistic representations and colours that bring
together all the characteristics of oil colors with an
emphasis on texture.
Exhibitions
2012 Summer selection Gallery Misr
2012 Solo Exhibition – Boushehri Art Gallery – Kuwait
2012 Egyptian Tales , Art Space Gallery-Dubai
2oo9 faces – Horizon one Gallery Cairo -Egypt
2009 colour and stone sonata – khan El Maghraby Gallery
- Cairo-Egypt
2009 Under current – Gallery Art sawa - Dubai
2009 Exhibition of Egypt's creative women artists -
Vienna
2009 Arab artists' exhibition - Kuwait
2008 100 years fine Arts - Cairo - Egypt
2008 Autumn Salon – Paris –France
(The catalogue cover, poster and invitation)
2007 Egyptian Contemporary Art, Alicante –Spain
2006 Stars of the Day – Horizon one Gallery Cairo -Egypt
2006 Egyptian Contemporary Art, Algeria
2005 Colour Poems for the muses -Picasso art Gallery
–Cairo - Egypt
2005 A Creative look at animals – khan El Maghraby
Gallery Cairo-Egypt
2004 Seventh Salon of Small Art Works Cairo -Egypt
2003 Creation of Arab Women –Palace of arts. Cairo-Egypt
2003 Ninetieth exhibition - at El Gezira Art Centre
2002 Festival of Garish – Jordan
2002 Triad of Sun and Moon – Exhibition at Khan El
Maghraby Gallery
2002 Noun wa Founon, at Picasso Gallery.
2002 Prize of the Fifth Salon of Small Art Works -Egypt
2001 In the frame Exhibition at khan El Maghraby Gallery
-Egypt
2000 Four Aspects for the Pyramid – Exhibition at khan
El Maghraby Gallery
2000 Exhibition at El Gezira Art Center -Egypt
1994 Second Prize at the Heliorama exhibition of youth
-the French Cultural Center, Third Prize 1995 and 1996
1993 The Fifth salon of Youth. - Cairo -Egypt
1992 Spring exhibition Cairo -Egypt
On her work:
Like floating colors melting deep within a silvery
light, shadows have more depth than color itself. Just
The color of hair is Egyptian pure black, being a
fundamental color as reds, Ochre transforms into gold
when it blends with sunlight. The shadows refer to their
original colors, even deep inside closed regions, just
like the Nile water’s shadows under rays of sun.
In the preparatory phase graphite or charcoal, and
sometimes pastels on colored paper, are used to make
several sketches in order to achieve the right form and
construction for the painting.
Oil colors are used in thick textured colors or in
lighter shades, with a large brush, and distributed for
an effect that ranges from the transparent to the
opaque, adding or removing in an attempt to obtain
various textures.
The model is the source and the base of an artwork.
Every work is an interpretation of one of the emotions
and moods that is hidden by the model features. The
success of an artwork depends on its ability of
transferring this invisible impression to the viewer
then he became a positive participant into the painting.
He interacts with this impression which controls his
feeling and affects his mood through the physical
features of the model, the stable composition as much as
the carefully chosen color helps in condensing the
psychological impression.
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