Youssef Nabil - Hardcover

Obrist, Hans Ulrich; Abramovic, Marina

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 2081301113 ISBN 13: 9782081301115

Verlag: Flammarion, 2014

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Youssef Nabil is a leading contemporary artist from the Middle East. His complete works reproduced in this monograph are put into context with a critical essay by Hans Ulrich Obrist and an interview with Marina Abramovic. Youssef Nabil's work oscillates between a personal photographic journal and portraits. He has photographed many international stars, including Sting, David Lynch, Isabella Rossellini, Paolo Coelho, Louise Bourgeois, Jean Nouvel, Omar Sharif, Catherine Deneuve, and Robert Wilson. Since 2003, he has produced a number of self-portraits that reflect his dislocated life away from Egypt in settings linked to his childhood or his travels. These scenes portray a combination of worldly realities and serene dreams, loneliness and fame, eroticism and death.

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Youssef Nabil was born in Cairo in 1972 and has lived and worked in Paris and New York since 2002. Hans Ulrich Obrist is a Swiss art critic and curator. Today, he is the Director of the Serpentine Gallery in London. Marina Abramovic is a famous performance artist who began her career in the 1970s. Her work was the subject of a major retrospective at the MoMA in New York in 2010.

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The influence of cinema is evident in Egyptian photographer Youssef Nabils work, which oscillates between a personal photographic journal and portraits featuring internationally renowned film stars, directors, popular musicians, artists, architects, and choreographers. He uses an unusual technique of coloring gelatine silver prints by hand or drawing over color prints of subjects ranging from self-portraits to landscapes to portraits. This technique was inspired by seeing Egyptian artists color film posters in his youth. Using this techniquepart photography and part paintinghe creates an imaginary reality that reflects both the paradoxes of the Middle East today and the flamboyant fantasies of the golden age of Egyptian film in the cosmopolitan prerevolutionary years in Cairo. He has also photographed many international stars, including Sting, John Waters, David Lynch, Isabella Rosselini, Paolo Coelho, Gilbert & George, Tracey Emin, Louise Bourgeois, Jean Nouvel, Zaha Hadid, Julian Schnabel, Omar Sharif, and Robert Wilson. Since 2003, he has produced a number of self-portraits that reflect his dislocated life away from Egyptoften from behind or in profile, and either naked or in a djellaba in settings linked to his childhood or his travels: at the Alexandria port, or in Istanbul, Cairo, Paris, Marseille, or Los Angeles. These scenes portray a combination of worldly realities and serene dreams, loneliness and fame, eroticism and death. This beautifully produced monograph is completed by a critical essay from Hans Ulrich Obrist and an interview with artist Marina Abramovic, which offer incisive perspectives that elucidate the creative trajectory and evolution of the artist.

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• Verlag: Flammarion
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 2081301113
• ISBN 13: 9782081301115
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 247
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