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Al-Ahram Weekly 13 - 19 May 1999 Issue No. 429 
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Al-Ahram Weekly 13 - 19 May 1999 Issue No. 429
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Around the galleries
SCULPTURES by Sabri Nashed were recently on exhibit at the Cairo Opera Gallery. Although he has worked with gypsum and polyester resin, Nashed has always been particularly attracted to the dialogue between his chisel and Egyptian wood. He has a remarkable ability to make the wood he works with articulate the form it already contains within itself -- often an abstract, elegantly proportioned, lithe human figure. Nashed does not work under the shadow of Ancient Egyptian or Greek sculpture but, rather, has invented a unique style of his own, one that is based on analysis, simplification and transcendence.
Reviewed by Nagwa El-Ashri
