El-Gazzar, born in 1925 in Alexandria, is a leading figure in modern Egyptian art of the 20th century. He enrolled in the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cairo in 1944 and then joined the Contemporary Art Group founded by Hussein Youssef Amin, his master. With an innovative and unique expressionist style, it portrays the people of Cairo in a folkloric way. Later, he tried his hand at abstraction by representing industrial machines and their effects on humans.<\/p>\n
Recognised during his lifetime, the production of El-Gazzar was exhibited in France from 1949, at the Venice Biennale in 1952 and at the São Paulo Museum in 1953. Today, his works are in private collections in Cairo, Alexandria, Rome, Paris and Brussels, but also in major institutions around the world, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York or the Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art.<\/p>\n
This catalogue raisonné, published in English, comprises two volumes. The first is dedicated to the artist’s paintings and the second to graphic works, archives and photographs. It brings an understanding of the enigmatic work of the artist, but also of modern Egyptian art in general.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
El-Gazzar is a leading figure in modern Egyptian art of the 20th century. This catalogue raisonné, is dedicated to the artist’s paintings and graphic works, archives and photographs.
7 Abdel Hadi El-Gazzar’s Special Vision and Expression
\nA New Interpretation of the Artist’s Works | Dr. Sabri Mansour
\n15 Facing a Rhinoceros Called Death | Ezz El-Din Naguib
\n19 Between Confrontation and Depression | Naim Attiya
\n25 El-Gazzar: Artist of the Revolution | Hussein Youssef Amin
\n31 Emotions and Fabrications | Hussein Bicar
\n34 Towards the Unknown | Fouad Kamel
\n37 Age of Space Artist | Hussein Bicar
\n41 El-Gazzar’s Exhibition and Peace Issues | Ibrahim Massouda
\n43 El-Gazzar’s Development from Metaphysics to Commitment | Hamed Nada
\n45 The Past, the Present, and the Future: The Story of this Painting | Abdel Hadi El-Gazzar
\n47 El-Gazzar and Zero Gravity | Hussein Bicar
\n50 Abdel Hadi El-Gazzar: His Place in the Contemporary Movement | Badr El-Din Abu Ghazi
\n53 The Green Fool | Hussein Bicar
\n55 A Tour through the World of El-Gazzar | Hussein Bicar
\n57 In Abdel Hadi El-Gazzar’s Exhibition | Nabil Farag
\n61 Abdel Hadi El-Gazzar: Identity and Revolution | Alain Roussillon
\n69 Abdel Hadi El-Gazzar | Aimé Azar
\n75 Abdel Hadi El-Gazzar: A Reading into the Soul of a People | Enas El-Hindi
\nCatalogue
\n89 1940–1943
\n113 1944–1945
\n129 1946–1949
\n165 1950–1959
\n223 1960–1966
\n293 Miscellaneous Works
\n303 Photos and Personal Items
\nAnnexes
\n310 Bibliography
\n314 Exhibitions
\n316 Works Mentioned in the Essays
\n317 Index<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":40895,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[5568],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-38907","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-art","7":"author-by-author-hussam-rashwan","8":"author-by-author-valerie-didier","9":"publisher-editions-norma","11":"first","12":"instock","13":"shipping-taxable","14":"purchasable","15":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n