9th Cairo International Biennale

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Al-Mansouria Foundation sponsors artistic experiences because it believes they are part of a nation’s spiritual nourishment. Every genuine artistic experience motivates both the artist and viewer to test their lasting beliefs and preconceived ideas, to cultivate and refine them by exposing them to discussion within a refutable and reconstructable modern construct. Art remains our most idealistic way to search for, and realize, the self within.  Through its renewed and regenerated styles, art explores appearances and paradigms, thereby raising more questions in its quest for identity.
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Rafa Al-Nasiri

Born Tikrit, Iraq, 1940.

BA Graphics, Institute of Fine Arts, Baghdad, 1959.

Further studies include: Graphics in both Peking, China, 1959-63, and Lisbon, Portugal, 1967-9.

Headed the Graphics Department at Institute of Fine Arts.

Awards:

  • First Prize, Baghdad International, 1986
  • Honorary Prize, Fredrikstad Fourth International Graphic Biennial, Norway, 1976
  • Jury Prize, Cagne-sur-Mer International Festival, France, 1977
  • Honorary Award, Summer Academy, Salzburg, Austria, 1964

Jury member at the International Graphics, Berlin, Germany, 1987.

Artwork in private and public collections world over. Lives and works in Bahrain.

SSE:

1995, 1880, 1977, 1975, 1970 Gallery Sultan, Kuwait

1984, 1979 Al-Riwaq Gallery, Iraq

1983 Gallery Faris, Paris

1981 National Museum of Modern Art, Amman

1976 Gallery Nadhar, Casablanca, Morocco

1973 Gallery Contact, Lebanon

1964 Czechoslovakian Cultural Centre, Iraq

1963 Painting and Graphics, Hong Kong

SGE:

1984 Sixth Inter-Graphic Biennale, Norway

1983 Second Contemporary /Arab Graphic Art, Gallery Graffiti, London

1982

  • 80 Fredrikstad Sixth and Fifth International Graphics Bienniale, Norway
  • Krakow Seventh International Graphics Biennale, Poland

1979

  • São Paolo Fifth Biennale, Brazil
  • Contemporary Iraqi Art, Messina, Italy

1978 Czechoslovakia Eight International Graphics Bienniale

1977 Ninth Cagne-sur-Mer International Festival, France

1976 Rabat Second Arab Bienniale, Morocco

1975 68 First and Third New Delhi Triennial, India

1974 73, 71, National Museum of Modern Art, Baghdad

1968 Gravura Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal

1967 Iraqi Art, Lisbon

1966 Iraqi Graphics, Berlin

1965 International Graphics, Leipzig, Germany

Mohammed Omar Khalil

Born Burri, Sudan, 1936.

Studied at the School of Fine & Applied Arts, Khartoum, 1959.

Fine Arts Academy, Florence, Italy, 1963.

Academy of Fine Arts, Ravenna, Italy, 1966.

Taught at New York University, Columbia University, Parsons School of Design and Pratt Institute.

Awards:

Leo Meissner Prize for Printmaking, 2003

First Prize, Inter-Biennale of Cairo, 1993

Bronze Prize, Osaka Triennial, Osaka, 1991

Artwork in private and public collections including:

  • Bibliotheque National, France
  • Institute du Monde Arabe, France
  • Library of Congress, USA
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, USA
  • Lives and works in New York City

SSE:

2004

  • Hassan II Center for International Encounters, Asilah, Morocco
  • Hakim Gallery d’Art, Asilah, Morocco

2002 Rochan Fine Arts, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

2001 Hunderdon Museum of Art, Clinton, New Jersey

1996 Asilah, Morocco

1992

  • Alif Gallery, Washington, DC
  • Gallery Teinturerie, Paris, France
  • Institut de Monde Arabe, Paris, France
  • El Waisiti Gallery, Amman, Jordan

1987

  • The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York
  • Marlene Eleini Gallery, London, England

1984 Limited Art Editions, New York, NY

1981

  • New School University, New York, NY
  • Cinque Gallery, New York, NY

1979

  • Basamat Gallery, Casablanca, Morocco
  • B.S. Structure Gallery, Rabat, Morocco
  • Layla Farawi Gallery, Casablanca, Morocco

Dia Al Hammaoui

Born in Aleppo, Syria 1963.

Studied art special studies. He is a full-time artist.

SSE:

2007 Exhibition Gallery in the Individual Covenants in Riyadh

2006 The Hall of the Levant, Aleppo

2003 2 months residency at the Al-Mansouria Atelier, Cité Internationale des Arts

1998 Exhibition “Last Supper” in the Hall of the Levant, Aleppo

1997

  • Exhibition of four artists from Syria in the Glass Hall, Beirut
  • Hall in the French Cultural Centre, Damascus
  • Mural “Biography of the Ad-Dulayl Bird” in the Hall, the Art World, Beirut

1995

  • In the Hall of the Levant, Aleppo
  • The Art Gallery of Damascus, Syria

SGE:

1985 Joint exhibition with artist Nihad Lishou in the National Museum of Aleppo

1995 Six Artists Exhibition Hall in the Levant, Aleppo

La force de I’Esprit

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UNESCO includes Al-Jeraibi among ’30 Artists against Alzheimer’s’
Leading Saudi artist Mahdi Al-Jeraibi was selected by the UNESCO to participate in the project “30 Artists against Alzheimer’s,’ a unique venture of UNESCO and “Drouot” Foundation for international auctions. The French equivalent of Christie’s and Sotheby’s and the French ministries of health and culture teamed up to organize this project which was launched on Sept. Read More

 

Arab News September 17, 2002

Babel 2002

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Babel 20002 to feature famous Saudi artists

As part of the activities of World Cup 2002 in Japan and Korea, famous Saudi artists will take part in the Babel 2002 exhibition at the National Museum of Contemporary Art-Korea, which starts on June 5.

Speaking on the occasion, Princess Jawahar Bint Majed Bin Abdulaziz, Chairman of The Al-Mansouria Foundation for Culture and Creativity, the Kingdom’s leading foundation for the promotion and support of the Saudi art and culture globally, said: “It is a great opportunity to display the outstanding art of Saudi artists. Participating Saudi artists will get the opportunity to showcase their works and a chance to export real Saudi art abroad and create dialogue, exchange views and deepen understanding.”

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Réthy Tambourgi

Born in Lebanon

Studied drawing and painting at the Ecole du Louvre and the Ecole des Beaux Arts with Pierre Caron and Jean Claude Attane, Paris, 1981-2001.

1998 through 2002, worked with the sculptor Mr. Robert, Paris.

SSE:

2005 “Chosen Objects” Saint Joseph University, Beirut

2004 Glassnot Gallery at Seifi Village, Beirut

2002 Al Mansouria Atelier, Cité Internationale des Arts

2000 02 permanent exhibition at Electic Gallery, Beirut

SGE:

2006 XXVIe Salon d’Automne, Nicolas Sursok Meusem, Beirut

2002 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris

1990

  • Grand Palais, Salon d’Automne / Independent Artists’ Society
  • Institut du Monde Arabe

1996 Inauguration of Downtown Beirut

1987 Nicolas Poussin Gallery, Paris

 

 

Dialectics

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They were all there

I knew that it was a collection of old and abandoned school desks, which had not been used for over twenty-five years. When I first saw them, an inner emotion overwhelmed me. I felt that life was beating faintly, imperceptibly but certainly, in those wooden boards. They were the documented collective memory of individuals, who indeed “were all there.”

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Mahdi Al Jeraibi

Mahdi Al-Jeraibi

Born in Makkah, Saudi Arabia, 1969.

Degree Of Fine Arts, Fine Arts School, Riyadh, 1989.

Lives and works in Makkah, Saudi Arabia.

SSE:

2001 “Dialectics,” organized and sponsored by The Al-Mansouria Foundation

2000

  • Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
  • Second Personal Exhibition, “Dialectics,” Jeddah Atelier, Jeddah

1997 First Personal Exhibition, Jeddah Atelier, Jeddah, KSA

SGE:

2011

  • Menesart, Nabat Gallery, Beirut
  • Art Fair, Abu Dhabi
  • Alamia Gallery “Common Space,” Jeddah, KSA

2010

  • Art Fair, Abu Dhabi
  • Lam Art Gallery, UAE

2008 Edge of Arabia, Brunei Gallery, SOAS University of London

2003 9th Cairo International Biennale, Cairo

2002

  • La Force de l’Esprit: “30 Artistes contre la maladie d’Alzheimers,” Drouot Montaigne, Paris
  • Babel 2002, the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea

2000

  • Art for All Festival, organized and sponsored by The Al-Mansouria Foundation, Jeddah
  • The Parallel Exhibition to the Book Expo, Jeddah

1999

  • Saudi Cultural week, Sharjah
  • The Common Spaces Exhibition, Arabesque Gallery, Jeddah
  • Saudi Cultural Week, Lisbon

1998

  • Selected Works of Saudi Contemporary Art Exhibition, Spain
  • Selected Works of Saudi Contemporary Art Exhibition, Cairo
  • Gulf Cultural week, Tunisia

1996-1998  Various International Art Biennales

1996-1997 First and Second Youth Exhibitions

1997 Exhibition held on the occasion of the visit of President Nelson Mandela, Jeddah Art Center

1996

  • Serphantis International Exhibition, Mexico
  • Arab Artists Exhibition in Beijing, China

 

Jinniyat Lar

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Book Launching Exhibition:

  • Instut du monde arab, Paris, Sept 2000
  • The National Museum, Riyadh, Dec 2000
  • Gallery Janine Rubeiz, Beirut, Feb 2000

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