صبحي جرجسSobhy Guirguis

Venue - 6th Floorشارع الجزيرة الزمالك القاهرة امام بوابة الدخول الرئيسية لنادى الجزيرة الرياضى 34

34 El Gezira Street Zamalek Cairo In front of El Gezira Sporting Club main entrance

Exhibition املعرض 1st - 16th November 2014

Daily except Friday 12pm - 8 pm يوميا ماعدا الجمعة

صبحي جرجسSobhy Guirguis

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Cover: 56x11x5cm - Bronze on wooden base - SG936

CONTENTS

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النحتSculpture

18x14x6cmBronzeSG902

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16x8x4.5cmBronzeSG901

22x13x7cmBronzeSG903

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25x22 x12cmBronzeSG905

43x23x9cmBronzeSG919

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39x16x10cmBronzeSG916

40x12x6cm Aluminum

SG940

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My experiMent gives Me the

feeling of

individuality

sobhy guirguis

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81x10x7cmBronze on wooden base

SG928

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94x13x18cmBronze on copper baseSG931

51x14x10cmBronzeSG923

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49x15x22cmBronzeSG920

57x12x9cmBronzeSG937

58x10x22cmBronzeSG938

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50x16x7cmBronze on wooden baseSG922

54x17x12cmBronze on wooden base

SG925

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56x26x12cmBronze on metal baseSG939

41x20x15cmBronzeSG917

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i wanted to invent, to

create, to break all the rules.

sobhy guirguis

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38x29x19cmBronzeSG915

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183x20x14cmBronzeSG934

220x20x19cmBronzeSG935

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46x30x13cmBronzeSG921

36x27x11cmBronze

SG911

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115x60x42cmBronze and metalSG932

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i wish we could have ahappiness day, just like

Mother’s day or love’sday

why don’t we wake up

one day and celebrate

happiness? i want

every body to be happy

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“sobhy guirguis

77x21x8cmBronze and metal

SG927

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80x22x10cmBronze and copper

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49x22x11cmBronzeSG943

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132x51x27cmBronze and metalSG941

27x27x18cmBronze and copper

SG907

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32x20x14cmBronzeSG909

38x26x23cmBronzeSG914

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31x28x19cmBronzeSG910

41x34x19cmBronzeSG918

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30x23x25cmBronzeSG908

59x23x20cmBronzeSG926

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38x10x11cmCopperSG913

52x28x19cm CopperSG924

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28x34x30cmCopperSG906

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89x78x42cmCopperSG930

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137x42x63cmCopperSG933

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Born 1929, Cairo, EgyptPassed away 2013, Cairo, EgyptPhD, Fine Arts Academy, Florence, Italy 1964MFA, Fine Arts School, Helwan, Cairo, Egypt 1958

PERMANENT MUSEUM

One Floor Museum Dedicated to the Works of Sobhy 1991Guirguis, El ShounaAgamy, Alexandria, Cairo

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

The self and the other, Art Talks Egypt 2014Retrospective, Horizon One Ofok, Mahmoud Khalil Mu- 2007seum, Cairo, EgyptRateb Sedik Gallery, Cairo Atelier, Cairo, Egypt 2004Rateb Sedik Gallery, Cairo Atelier, Cairo, Egypt 2002Espace Karim Francis, Downtown, Cairo, Egypt 1999Espace Karim Francis, Downtown, Cairo, Egypt 1997Duroub Gallery, Cairo, Egypt 1996Extra Gallery, Cairo, Egypt 1994Akhnaton Gallery, Gezira Art Center, Cairo, Egypt 1994Akhnaton Gallery, Gezira Art Center, Cairo, Egypt 1981Kasr El Nil, Cairo, Egypt 1971Akhnaton Gallery, Kasr el Nil, Cairo, Egypt 1971

SOBHY GUIRGUIS was born in 1929 and passed away in 2013 in Cairo, Egypt where he lived and worked. Influenced by hisfather, a renowned nay (flute) player in Om Kalthoum orches-

tra, Guirguis first enrolled to study music and then switched to arts. He received a BFA, MFA and PhD from the faculty of Fine Arts in Cairo in 1958 and obtained a postgraduate diploma in Florence in 1964. He received the prestigious first prize forsculpture in the Alexandria Biennale for Mediterranean Coun-

tries in 1994 and the Grand Prize of the Cairo International.Biennale in 1994 amongst many others

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Palace, Cairo, Egypt4th Sharjah International Arts Biennale, Sharjah, UAE 1999

Honorary Guest, Aswan Sculpture Symposium, Aswan, 1999Egypt

Centennial Anniversary of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Cairo, 1998.Egypt. Honorary Award

7th Salon for Art and Design, Egyptian Institute for Art 1997and Design, Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt

25th National Exhibition for Fine Arts, Opera House Arts 1997Palace, Cairo, Egypt

24th National Exhibition for Fine Arts, Opera House Arts 1995Palace, Cairo, EgyptSculpture, Extra Gallery, Cairo, Egypt 19945th Cairo International Biennale, Opera House Arts Pal- 1994ace, Cairo, Egypt. Awarded Grand Jury Prize18th Alexandria Biennale for Mediterranean Fine Arts, Al- 1994exandria, Egypt. Awarded Sculpture Grand PrizeGezirah Art Center with Taha Hussein and Mostafa Raz- 1994zaz, Cairo, EgyptItalian Culture Center, Zamalek, Cairo, Egypt 1991

21st National Exhibition for Fine Arts, Akhnaton Center of 1990Art, Cairo, EgyptVenice Biennale, Egyptian Pavilion, Venice, Italy 1976Arab Contemporary Artists Exhibition, Kuwait 1975

International Gymnastics Exhibition, Madrid, Spain. 1973Awarded Honorary Prize

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Panorama Sculpture, Zamalek Art Gallery, Cairo, Egypt 2009Salon d’Automne, Paris, France 2008Olympics Celebration, Peking, China 2008Horizon One, Mahmoud Khalil Museum, Cairo, Egypt 2008

31st National Exhibition for Fine Arts, Opera House Arts 2008Palace, Cairo, EgyptAwarded The Mubarak Prize for Arts 2007Egyptian National Salon, Ministry of Culture, Cairo, Egypt 2007Towards The Sun“, 1st International Ecuador Arts Bien-“ 2006nale, Quito, EcuadorFenoon Art Gallery, Cairo, Zamalek 2006

29th National Exhibition for Fine Arts, Opera House Arts 2005Palace, Cairo, EgyptFine Arts Palace, El Qasr, Cairo, Egypt 2005Cairo Atelier, Cairo, Egypt 2004

27th National Exhibition for Fine Arts, Opera House Arts 2003Palace, Cairo, EgyptSmall Artworks at the Center of Art Cairo, Egypt 2002Espace Karim Francis, Cairo, Egypt 2002

Honorary Guest At Hamed Nada In Memory Exhibition, 2002Cairo, Egypt53rd Cairo Atelier Salon, Downtown, Cairo, Egypt 2001

26th National Exhibition for Fine Arts, Opera House Arts 2001

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35x26x42cmCopper

SG912

PUBLIC ART

October 1973 War Panorama, Egyptian Armed Forces, Ministryof Defense, Cairo, EgyptHumanity Sculpture, next to Aswan Airport, Aswan, EgyptCairo Metro UndergroundEgyptian Museum for Modern Art, Opera House, Cairo, EgyptDanshoway Museum, Delta, EgyptShouna Art Museum, Agamy, Alexandria, Egypt

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