01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Gamal El Seguini's A View of Imbaba Bridge, Cairo, with Footnotes, #47

Gamal El Seguini, (EGYPT, 1917-1977)

A View of Imbaba Bridge, Cairo, c. 1950

Oil on panel, framed

65 x 40cm (25 9/16 x 15 3/4in).

Private collection

Born in a popular neighborhood of Cairo in 1917, Gamal El Seguini joined the School of Fine Arts in Cairo in 1933 to study sculpture. Four years later, and after his graduation, he traveled to Paris, where he discovered the works of the French sculptors Jacques Bourdelle and August Rodin. The outbreak of world war II obliged him to leave Europe. He came back later in 1947, after receiving a scholarship to pursue a formation in metalwork and sculpture in Rome. In Egypt, El Seguini became part of the emerging artistic scene: he founded the group called Sawt al-Fannan (The Voice of the Artist) for the promotion of young Egyptian artists and co-founded the Contemporary Art Group in 1947. During the 1950s, the artist was appointed professor of sculpture at the School of Fine Arts in Cairo and then, head of the department of sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Alexandria. Working with a wide range of media like wood, bronze, or stone, the artist notably used a technique of hammered copper to produce bas-reliefs recalling the ones from Ancient Egypt. The themes of his oeuvre appear to be mainly political, but he would reinterpret them through a specific artistic language, including symbols or calligraphic signs that he invented himself. Gamal El Seguini passed away in 1977 in Barcelona. More on Gamal El Seguini

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