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AHMED ABDELWAHAB AHMED ABDELWAHAB

AHMED ABDELWAHAB, Egypt (1932 - 2021)

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Born in 1932, Ahmad Abdelwahab comes from the rural city Tanta He studied drawing and painting in Cairo, in the Faculty of Fine Arts and eventually specialized in sculpture. After Receiving a...

Born in 1932, Ahmad Abdelwahab comes from the rural city Tanta He studied drawing and painting in Cairo, in the Faculty of Fine Arts and eventually specialized in sculpture. After Receiving a scholarship from the government, he proceeded his formation at the Atelier of Luxor - an institution that promotes the study on Ancient Egyptian art – and was consequently able to travel around Upper Egypt. The artist also got to encounter the Western art production since he successively obtained scholarships to study the art of ceramics in former Czechoslovakia in the late 1950s, and a three-year scholarship to join the atelier of the artist, Emilio Greco, in Rome in 1968. In the Italian capital, he consequently discovered the works of masters of the Renaissance movement as well as of contemporary Italian artists. In 1960, he settled in Alexandria, started teaching at the Faculty of Fine Arts, and was appointed head of the Department of Sculpture from 1979 to 1988.

Abdelwahab's experiences abroad had never kept him away from his heritage, to which he stayed deeply attached. In his oeuvre, he shows his fascination for the sculptural culture of the Egyptian civilization and its visual references, such as the Pharaoh Akhenaton, whom he mainly reused the facial features. The use of a wide range of material that he would mix like cement, glaze, or graphite recalls the ones of the Egyptian ancestral practice and manifests his intention to celebrate this heritage through a modern artistic language. Ahmad Abdelwahab has been celebrated worldwide during several international exhibitions, and The Bibliotheca Alexandrina dedicated a permanent exhibition to his art in 2012.

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CV

Selected Solo Exhibitions

1980

Sporting Club, Alexandria, Egypt

1979

Al-Salam Gallery, Cairo, Egypt

1964

Alexandria Atelier, Alexandria, Egypt

Selected Group Exhibitions

2009

Panorama of Egyptian Sculpture, Zamalek Art Gallery, Zamalek, Egypt

2007

The 1st Egyptian Salon Festival of Fine Creation, Egypt

2005

The Egyptian Cultural Center, Paris, France

1986

The International Sculpture Biennale, Hungary

1982

The 40th International Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

1977

Contemporary Egyptian Art, Khartoum, Sudan

1976

The 37th International Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

1972

The 36th International Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

1965

The 6th Alexandria Biennale, Alexandria, Egypt

1964

International Youth Biennale, Paris, France

1963

The 5th Alexandria Biennale, Alexandria, Egypt

1961

The 4th Alexandria Biennale, Alexandria, Egypt

Awards and Honors

2002

The State Prize of Merit Award for Arts Sculpture 

1999

Prize Honored at the 26thNational Exhibition of Fine Arts

1987

Awarded the 1stprize at the 16thAlexandria Biennale 

Affiliations & Membership

1980

Member of Jury Committee of Encouragement State prize of Ceramics

1975

Member of the Cultural Committee in Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt

Collections

Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon
Museum of the Modern Egyptian Art, Cairo, Egypt
Museums of Fine Arts, Alexandria, Egypt
Museum of Modern Art, Czechoslovakia, Slovakia

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Documents
دلالات السكون في وجوه أخناتون
Arabic

Exhibition invitation poster

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Eternal Light: Something Old Something New
Dr. Gemma Tully/ Valerie Didier-Hess/ Mehri Khalil/ Noura Abla
Art D’Egypte / DAF Library, English, Arabic, 2017

Excerpt of Exhibition Catalog rnp.14-15/ p.48-49

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Ahmed Abdel Wahab
Ehab El Labban
وزارة الثقافة, Arabic, English, 2018

Monograph

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Press
Ahmed Abdel-Wahab at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina
MAX DISTRO LLC
traveltoeat.com, English, 2015
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المعرض الاستيعادي للتشكيلي المصري أحمد عبد الوهاب: حالة فنية تحاول وصل ما انقطع
محمد عبد الرحيم
alquds.co.uk, Arabic, 2019
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بدء فعاليات معرض دلالات السكون في وجوه اخناتون لنفلان الكبير احمد عبدالوهاب
هاني توفي
alnagmalwatany.com, Arabic, 2019
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معرض «الجمالية» للمصري خالد الأباصيري: شخوص منسيّة يُحيها الفن
محمد عبد الرحيم
alquds.co.uk, Arabic, 2018
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"دلالات السكون في وجه اخناتون معرض لـ”عبد الوهاب” بـــ”فنون المنيا
نجلاء فتحي
alqabasnews.com, Arabic, 2019
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أحمد عبد الوهاب.. جماليات الفن في الإيجاز
alkhaleejread, Arabic, 2016
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أحمد عبد الوهبا الحاصل يلع تقديرية الدولة يف الفنون تاحن من العصر الاخناتوين
نجوي العشري
ahram.org.eg, Arabic, 2002
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التشكيلى أحمد عبد الوهاب يعتذر عن مشاركته وتكريمه بسمبوزيوم النحت بأسوان
سماح عبد السلام
gate.ahram.org.eg, Arabic, 2017
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الفنان المصري أحمد عبد الوهاب: الفن يسمو بي إلى السماء
داليا عاصم
archive.aawsat.com, Arabic, 2010
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كتاب جديد عن التشكيلي والنحات أحمد عبد الوهاب أحد رواد فن التصوير الضوئي
alqudsalarabi.info, Arabic, 2012
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كتاب عن التشكيلي والنحات أحمد عبد الوهاب يرصد مدى تأثير الموالد الشعبيةوضجتها على وعيه الغامض
محمود قرني
alquds newspaper, Arabic, 2006
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لماذا تم الغاء حفل افتتاح تمثال عبدالوهاب الساعدي في الموصل بشكل مفاجئ؟
nasnews.com, Arabic, 2018
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افتتاح معرض النحات أحمد عبد الوهاب في متحف محمود خليل.. الأحد
ahlmasrnews.com, Arabic, 2018
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.إفتتاح معرض الفنان التشكيلي احمد عبد الوهاب  | الأموال
elamwal.com, Arabic, 2018
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الأحد..افتتاح معرض المثال أحمد عبدالوھاب بمتحف محمد محمود
جمال الشرقاوي
elbalad.news, Arabic, 2018
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قاعة أفق تستعد لتنظيم معرض استيعادى للنحات أحمد دبع الوهاب
dostor.org, Arabic, 2018
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(افتتاح المعرض الاستعادي لـ«أحمد عبد الوهاب» بحضور سرور وحسني (صور
محمود سعيد
vetogate.com, Arabic, 2018
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أحمد عبد الوهاب
سيلفيا هرمينا
wataninet.com, Arabic, 2018
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معرض الفنان أحمد عبد الوھاب كأنك فى أفق بمتحف محمود خلیل وحرمھ
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youm7.com, Arabic, 2018
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دلالات السكون في وجه اخناتون معرض ل”عبد الوهاب” ب”فنون المنيا”
وفاء صلاح
akhberalyom.com, Arabic, 2019
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Egypt's Fine Arts Museum displays Ahmed Abdel Wahab’s sculptors
Mustafa Marie
English, 2020
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Videos
شاهد.. لوحات النحات أحمد عبد الوهاب فى معرضه الاستيعادى
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Exhibitions
From Mokhtar to Gazbia

AHMED ABDELWAHAB Artwork

Taha Hussein

AHMED ABDELWAHAB, Egypt, N.D.
240 x 85 x 180 cm

The Key of Life/ مفتاح الحياة

AHMED ABDELWAHAB, Egypt, 2017
193 x 51.5 x 45 cm

The Key of Life/ مفتاح الحياة

AHMED ABDELWAHAB, Egypt, 2001
177 x 36.5 x 43 cm

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