Video: Wicker sculptures from palm leaves
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
We have been convinced more than once that everything great and genius is simple. And this is once again proved to us by the Egyptian artist Ahmad Askalany, the author of unusual wicker figures, this year representing Egypt at the Venice Biennale. “Simplicity is my philosophy,” says Ahmad Askalani. "It helps to convey the idea directly to the viewer without going into details."
Giant sculptures by a Cairo artist, a participant in the main International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, greeted visitors at the entrance to the Egyptian pavilion. Wicker three-meter figures of women politely, half-bending over, invited visitors to enter the hall and get acquainted with the sculptural world of master Ahmad Askalani, which features men and women kissing mummies, figures smoking a hookah and chatting nicely on the balcony or sitting on comfortable chairs. But the most striking of all of them is, of course, a high-spirited delivery of buns on a bicycle.
The sculptures by self-taught artist Ahmad Askalani are created from palm leaves using a fairly simple weaving technique, similar to the way girls braid their braids. The author chose palm leaves as a material, as they were a traditional building material in Upper Egypt. The purpose of the work is to show ordinary human life, in which there is no place for aggression and the dark side.
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