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'In just a few years of his practice, Mahmoud Menaysy has been able to unleash his deep powerful art character submitting it to experience Modern Art. In recent years, this young talented artist has provided important answers to the perplexities of art.
If he tackles portraying a woman's body, he will incarnate the ethereal treasure that carries the space to express the entire existence of the universe - the cold deaf material explodes to protest against all that is solid, cold, soft, thick, soulless, and mindless.' Ahmed Fouad Selim 1998 Director of the Egyptian Modern Art Museum (Cairo)
MAHMOUD MENAYSY
Visual & Contemporary Artist And
Curator
Born 1970, Alexandria, Egypt
Roles
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President of the Mediterranean Utopia Foundation for Culture & Arts
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Director of Public Art Administration and Art Curator (THE NATIONAL ORGANIZATION
FOR URBAN HARMONY – EGYPT)
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Director of Visual Art Administration (THE GENERAL ORGANIZATION OF CULTURE
PALACES – EGYPT)
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Member of the Syndicate of Fine Artists in Egypt.
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Member of Alexandria and Cairo Atelier in Egypt.
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Independent visual artist, expressing himself through painting, sculpture, installations
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video art
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Projects
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Curator & Commissioner & the General Coordinator of the Project (Exchange
modern and
contemporary art) in Egypt
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Curator & Commissioner & the General Coordinator of the Project (Utopia) in
Egypt
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Scholarship
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1996/2005
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Sabbatical leave of the Ministry of Culture
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Solo Shows
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1992/2007
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Cairo Atelier Gallery – Egypt
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2009 and
2010
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Extra Gallery, Zamalek in Cairo
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2006
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Mahmoud Mokhtar Museum, Cairo
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2004
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Center of Arts, Zamalek (Akhnaton Gallery), Cairo (Stars Youth Salon)
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2002
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Aljazira Center for Arts, Zamalek, Cairo
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1998
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Zamalek Arts Complex, Cairo
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1997
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Spanish Cultural Center, Alexandria
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1995
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Alexandria Atelier
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Alexandria Museum of Fine Arts
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1994
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Russian Cultural Center, Alexandria
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1993
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German cultural Center, Goethe Inistitute, Alexandria
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International Exhibitions and Workshops
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2011
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1st Sodic International Symposium for sculpture, Egypt
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2010
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SART VILLAGE, 1st International Festival of Seduction, Rome, Italy
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2001
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Al-Shouf International Art Symposium, Lebanon
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The 21st Alexandria International Biennale of Mediterranean Countries
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1998
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The 7th Cairo International Biennale
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Local and international Who's Who
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2002
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Youth Salon Encyclopedia, Second Edition, edited by critic Mohammed Hamza, Sector
of
Fine Arts Publications
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1994
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Youth Salon Encyclopedia, First Edition, edited by Dr. Sobhy el-Sharoony, Sector of
Fine
Arts Publications
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Local recognition
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2002
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Encouraging prize, the 14th Youth Salon
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2001
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Prize of the 21st Alexandria International Biennale of Mediterranean Countries
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Prize of the International Biennale of Alexandria
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1997
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Top prize for installation, 9th Youth Salon
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Prize for drawing, Alexandria Youth Salon
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1996
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Second prize for drawing, 8th Youth Salon
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1995
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Jury prize for painting, 7th Youth Salon
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Private collections
Among collections of art lovers in Egypt,
Germany, Saudi Arabia, Italy, Sweden,
South Africa, U.S.A, and Kuwait
State collections
The Egyptian Modern Art Museum & The
Ministry of Culture of Egypt & Cultural
Development Fund of Egypt
Swedish Royal palace in Stockholm (The
Princess of the Hearts Victoria)
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