AL-MADAR STUDIO
Integrated Sign of Beauty
Regardless of the names of the individual artists, our studio were united in its aim to dispense with the sober historicist traditions of academic art. As well as the hierarchic division of the arts, which we felt had limited artistic production.
“Our aim was twofold: we wanted to avoid the endless repletion of earlier styles and subject matter, and we wanted to create a method which could shape the environment with much artistic enthusiasm and quite stunningly values. Our studio recognizes such that could be achieved by the synthesis of all the decorative arts.”
The single characteristic of our studio which distinguishes it from any other contemporary styles is that we make the decorative elements autonomous within the work of art. In traditional art studios of painting, architecture and applied arts, formal, representational and emotional values had always overwhelmed decorative elements, which our Studio attempted to liberate pure visual appeal from the restraint of meaning.
Activities
Such that, our Mediterranean and cultural diversities, with unique understanding of the Orientals.
Our Studio’s ideas on art, its function and Diffusion in society were Contemporary Egyptian-Based.
Motivated and mastered through the collaboration of other sources of inspiration and cultures.
Our studio had distinguished that industrial mass-production of goods, artistic creative design of everyday life
The artist – crafts should be a responsible participant in society, rather than isolated from it.
Our designers could only learn the nature of the materials through the practice of the crafts. We learn how to master the quality of our materials, to bring the pleasure of creation and the beauty of the object.
According to harmonizing those Human inspirations, our art objects, projects and elements had accomplished many influences. Book illustrations, painting, sculpture, contemporary architecture and ornaments. We proceed into a general decorative scheme incorporating objects from a wide rang of media.
Our Strategy
Indeed, our studio suggested new values of the art work,combining these rhythmic tensions in art itself and led to associate with the purest of art forms. With such painful and patient experimental techniques, our studio mastered its method of an integrated art projects, interior decorative elements, Furniture Painting, stained glass ( restoring and renovation ), glass engraving, mural painting, sculpture, metal work Design. In many ways, largely as a result of our original designed pieces, the studio had accomplished its artist’s attempts to render the objects of everyday life beautiful.
Methodist in Graphic design and ordering, digital media, filming and visual effects for some events, interior decorative elements, Doors, stained glass windows, glass engravings, mural painting, sculpture, wood and stone carving, metal work.
Decorative Accessories and ornamented elements of style.
Bridles show scenery, events and campaigns setup (wedding historical effect fantasies), and kids birthday clips, Fashion show Imaging, branding and business window Display.
Artists Profile
Art Director – Magdy Shiha
MAGDY SHIHA had born in Cairo (Egypt).
SHIHA started his artistic career in (Alex) 1983.
Science he was studying engineering, he says, practicing art deepen my wondering about the human.The necessity to draw was uneasy vague discontent.
SHIHA expresses his unwillingness to leave his own special approach to experience through imagination, he pointed out to improvised qualities in drawing and improvisation as the union of deep feeling with profound thought, the fine balance of observing with sight- memory.
SHIHA drawings examines all the variable moments to the human, such that the artist experienced to draw a hauntingly beautiful figurative charcoals, very intensively done for the sensitive human he is.
These ambiguous and metaphoric charcoal images show a sharp distinction between body and soul. The artist draws on another form of self (ka) with natural shapes, gestures, poses, attitudes and actions as if formalized by primordial commandment .
The artist of Alexandria, Egypt works in ink on paper or charcoal, his pieces reflect his intensity and his passion for the human figure and all the facts that it encompasses. His figurative works, commands of the viewer to see parts of them, parts that are floating, dancing, swirling and fascinated by life with wonder like the eyes of a child. Or the hauntingly beautiful, yet alluring aspects that we do not want to see, or acknowledge about ourselves, the deep roots of our sub- consciousness.
SHIHA drawings embark on the positive and negative forces that drive all the human beings; he puts ourselves in front of us, as if has looked into our very souls. He showed many solo and group exhibitions in Egypt and outside, also scheduled to exhibit at Art spaces MD, USA April 2001 and Mexico.
Collaborative Artists
“The artists come from diverse backgrounds. They have developed innovative strategies, sensitive to their individuality but successfully communicating with a broad audience.
Although the works are very personal, each informed by specific experiences and influences, they also encourage a second level interpretation that is larger, more universal and evocative, which art becomes the vehicle through which to explore and learn about one another.
In striking a balance between the personal and the transcendental, each artist forges a unique means of communication. This to be celebrated as a positive forum of exchange. It is in relating between worlds, artists and audience, content and form, which the artists shape their strategies, which they choose to communicate.
Many artists around the world have share and communicate with the studio activities, art projects and workshops. Visitors come to announce their own deep appreciation.”
Marianne Lund-Uhrenfeldt – Denmark
I have a predilection for strong and powerful colors, and I paint mostly colorist, half-abstract pictures in which something figurative may be sensed.
When painting I speed up, almost like an explosion often supported by background music of any kind: From opera to soft techno.
When I sometimes choose to make less colorful works of art, I slow down a bit and everything happens at a more gentle pace. Form, expression and temper usually go together. Exactly this interaction between two kinds of artistic intensity I do find most important to conserve.
International Artists Collaboration
Gillian McIver – England
Gillian McIver, Canadian artist and writer born in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK and raised in Vancouver is a writer, curator and film-maker.
After studying history and philosophy, she moved to London where, in 1997, she set up an international underground art collective, known as Luna Nera in the abandoned Colosseum theatre in East London. Since that time, she has participated in various projects with Luna Nera, exhibiting in a wide variety of venues in different countries throughout Europe including the UK, Canada, Russia, Finland, Germany, Switzerland, Ireland and Italy.
She continues to co-ordinate Luna Nera which makes temporary site-specific projects in unusual yet significant sites. Her own work consists primarily of video and photographic images which explore history, memory and place. She made “Places” a collection of short films – made about strange sites in Berlin, Moscow, St Petersburg, Paris and Belfast – exploring the lost fragments that trace the past, and reveal the transitory nature of human existence.
Her most recent work, the short film “Tarkovsky’s River” documents, in still photographs, haunting journeys to the remote part of Russia, the upper Volga, where Andrei Tarkovsky was born. “Tarkovsky’s River” was shown at the Format Photography Festival 2009.
Erato Tsouvala – Greece
Erato Born in Piraeus / Greece, Erato Tsouvala has studied painting, history of art and modern art and has practiced in the laboratory of Greek artist Antonis Politakis. Her work is influenced by Byzantine hagiography, and is full of eroticism together with a quality of naked forms.
About Erato
The innovative style of Erato’s paintings immediately captures the art-lovers. Works of art deeply dedicated to the human being, strongly manifest the poetic existence of love and passion, scented with a unique manner. Recent Painting 2003, Untitled Figures are coupled so tunefully but they also keep their individual essence. One can see an ancient Greek breath with a Byzantine hagiography consistency but the real outcome generates a new touch that only Erato could introduce. The forms join into flesh clusters, where from an incomparable eroticism emerges, that tends to spiritualist the image and to compose a hymn to love.
The bodies are twisted with elegance in excess, creating unprecedented twins that stimulate and turn out really sensational. The more Erato’s works are observed, the merrier it is realized that a continuous effort of inner research is latent Erato’s Greek parentage is clearly plotted in her works of art, where Mediterranean blue and soil brown colors, combined with the background white, guide the viewer to a soul exaltation, while the red strokes inspire the passion. Erato’s paintings go beyond conventional forms and manicures, bringing new era to the modern artists’ community and sending her sunny poetic message.
Jacko Restikian – (Lebanon , Mixed-Media art)
Born in Beirut 1964, where he lives and works as an art teacher. He obtained a BSC degree in Toulouse France in 1984. In 1990 he graduated from the Institute of Fine Art, University of Lebanon, with a diploma in advanced studies in the visual arts. In the early nineties he worked as a photographer . The artist participated in many group exhibitions since 1991, winning the judges award in 1998. He showed many solo exhibitions in 1995 – 1998 in Beirut and France. He works in painting, mixed media, installation and performance.