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Info about - El Nagdi
Omar El Nagdi
Omar El Nagdi is a sculptor, director, musician and philosopher. El Nagdi works with paint, wood, clay, iron, glass and stone and studied art history so as to envisage a modern Egyptian art school. He is the founder of the Generation Mosaic Association.
He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Helwan University, in 1953. He was awarded a one-year scholarship to study ceramics in the Soviet Union in 1959.
Over the period 1960-64 he conducted further studies in the Academy of Fine Arts, Venice, Italy. In 1963, he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Ravenna, Italy, where he studied the art of mosaic. In 1964, El Nagdi obtained a diploma from the Venice-based Ruskin Artistic Appreciation Institute, Italy.
El Nagdi directed 32 documentary films and composed 9 songs.
Awards:
* 1952 First prize, Faculty of Fine Arts.
* 1955 First Award in painting, Science Day.
* 1966 First award, Alexandria Biennale, sculpture.
* 1973 Cairo Salon.
* 1961-62 General Annual Exhibition (carving), Venice.
* 1968 First prize in Sculpture, Alexandria Biennale.
* 1969 First prize (silk-screen), Cairo Salon.
* 1970 First prize (mosaic), Cairo Salon.
* 1971 First prize in sculpture, Cairo Salon.
* 1974 First prize (carving and silk-screen), Alexandria Biennale.
* 1983 First prize in painting, Saudi Arabia.
Activities:
* 1953 Member of Luxor Atelier.
* 1970-73 Member of the Fine Arts Lovers Association.
* 1970-73 Member of the State Committee, Artists Fund.
* 1970-73 Member of the State Higher Plastic Arts Committee.
* 1971-74 Member of the Programs Committee and general manager of the production services, the Egyptian TV.
* 1971-74 Director of "Art and Life" program.
Acquisitions:
* Modern Art Museum, Cairo.
* Modern Art Museum, Venice, Italy.
* Fine Arts Museum, Alexandria.
* Modern Art Museum, South Korea.
* National Library, Paris.
* Congress Library, USA.
* Postojna Museum, Italy.
* Ruskin Artistic Appreciation Institute, England.
* White House Museum, USA.
Solo Exhibitions:
* 1957 Modern Art Museum, Cairo.
* 1958 Faculty of Applied Arts, Cairo.
* 1961 Venice, Ravenna, Verona, Italy.
* 1962 Stena Gallery, Rome, Italy.
* 1963 San Stevano Gallery, Venice, Italy.
* 1963 Woodstock Gallery, London.
* 1963 Bab Al-Louq Gallery, Cairo.
* 1966 Akhnatoun Gallery, Cairo.
* 1966 Czechoslovakian Center, Cairo.
* 1968 Bab Al-Louq Gallery, Cairo.
* 1969 Novel Image Gallery, Holland.
* 1969 Circle Gallery, London.
* 1974 Safr Khan Gallery, Zamalek, Cairo.
* 1978 Foreign Diplomats Gallery, Cairo.
* 1978 Akhnatoun Gallery, Cairo.
* 1980 Akhnatoun Gallery, Cairo.
* 1985 Intercontinental Hotel, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
* 1988 Akhnatoun Gallery, Cairo.
* 1990 Omar El Nagdi Gallery, Giza.
* 1991 Gulf War Exhibition, Al-Ahram newspaper Gallery, Cairo.
* 1992 Al-Ahram Newspaper Gallery, Cairo.
* 1994 Al-Ahram Gallery.
* 1995 Salama Gallery, Cairo.
* 1995 Arab World Institute, Paris, France.
* 1995 Grande Hotel, Paris, France.
Collective Exhibitions:
* 1952 Athens-Warso Exhibition.
* 1958 Alexandria Biennale (painting), Egypt.
* 1959 Japan, Moscow, Leningrad. Venice, Italy.
* 1960 Alexandria Biennale (painting), Egypt.
* 1961 Rome, Switzerland, Spain.
* 1962 Venice Biennale (painting), Italy.
* 1965 Akhnatoun Gallery, Cairo.
* 1965 Paris Biennale (carving).
* 1965 Atelier de Caire, Cairo.
* 1967 Carving Biennale, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia.
* 1968 Alexandria Biennale, Egypt.
* 1968 Postojna Biennale, Italy.
* 1968 Poland Biennale (carving).
* 1968 Venice Biennale (carving and sculpture).
* 1968 Salon de Caire, Monaco.
* 1969 International Carving Exhibition, Catania, Italy.
* 1970 Mosaic Exhibition, Venice, Italy.
* 1974 Alexandria Biennale, Egypt.
* 1992 Egyptian Academy, Rome, Italy.
* 1993 Omar El Nagdi and his Students Exhibition, Al-Ahram newspaper Gallery.
* 1994 New York, Washington and London.
* 1994 0ne Thousand Artists from Normandy Exhibition, France.
Books:
* 1996 The Alphabet of Design.
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