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Samir Fouad edit
Samir Fouad is considered one of the prominent artists in the Egyptian art movement, known for his unique visual language, which draws from the traditions of painting and is concerned with the juxtaposition of arrest and movement.
Biography edit
He was born in Cairo in 1944, and although he had shown outstanding talent in painting since early childhood, he went on to study electronic engineering and graduated from Cairo University in 1966 with a B.Sc. in Communications Engineering. He then pursued a successful career in computer engineering and information technology, which lasted for 34 years, but at the same time continuing his passion for art. He had his first one-man show in England in 1970 and the second in Cairo in 1977; he started to share in the Egyptian art scene in the early eighties in national and other joint exhibitions and was well known in this period for his artistically unique watercolors.
Samir Fouad’s art is derived from various influences: growing up in post-war Heliopolis gave him a cosmopolitan dimension, and his continuous search into human existence and in the correlation between music and visual arts gives him a distinctive artistic vision, which is conveyed in his main concern with the representation of the passing of time in his work.
His artistic content is predominantly expressionist, and his visual language draws from the heritage of painting to the horizons of modernism, but his state of mind and mood are thoroughly Egyptian, with an underlying socio-political theme, He selects the subjects of his paintings from the culture and soil of his motherland.
Exhibitions edit
In 1997, he held a major watercolor exhibition that left a strong impression in art circles, and then in 2001, he decided to leave his job to devote himself to art full-time.
Since 1997, he has held eighteen one-man shows, represented Egypt in the International Watercolor Biennale in 2001, the International Luxor Symposium in 2011, had a co-exhibition with the Italian artist Franco Rizzoli in Venice in 2016, and had a major retrospective at Ofok Gallery in Mahmoud Said Museum, Cairo, in 2018.
His works have been exhibited in various countries, such as the USA, UK, Italy, France, Russia, Kenya, Dubai, Kuwait, Lebanon, South Africa, and Saudi Arabia.