Ibrahim Mustafa
Chant Avedissian
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Chant Avedissian
Abdel Halim Hafez – 2012
Chant Avedissian
The Great Wall (Self-Portrait) – 1998
Egyptian artist Chant Avedissian (1951-2018) engages the viewer with a body of work that integrates images of iconic figures in Egyptian history, traditional Pharaonic iconography and art of the 1950s and 1960s. A Cairo-born artist with Armenian roots, Avedissian’s interests in folk art, sufi poetry, Zen principles and aestheticism are evident in his creations, which also strike a balance with Western work processes.
Avedissian was born in 1951 in Cairo, the son of Armenian refugees who fled the Turkish incursions in 1915-16. After studying fine art at the School of Art and Design in Montreal and applied arts at the National Higher School of Decorative Arts in Paris during the 1970s, Avedissian returned to Egypt. He fused the techniques, concepts and cosmopolitan experiences acquired abroad with the heritage of his Armenian-Egyptian background to produce striking commentaries on the world around him.
Chant Avedissian (Egyptian, b. 1951), Youssef Wehbe, 2012. Gouache on cardboard, 50 x 70 cm.
Youssef Wehbe, or Youssef Wahbi (1898-1982) was an Egyptian stage and film actor and director
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