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Farouk Wahba's art-experience starts from experimentation as a new mould for the ancient Egyptian perspective of civilization. His starting-point as a painter is the relief technique adding a tangible plasticity to a picture.
He reaches installation structures that are, in turn, employed in a collective object work. A Wahba piece is mostly a three dimensional artwork hung or laid on the floor, large in size, along with a number of (artificial) mummies with TV monitor faces; all embraced |
| by several special effects: Ultra light, music and other sounds, smoke....etc. The artist seeks, in this, to realize the unity of the arts in an inspirational, moving theatrical atmosphere.
Wahba's philosophy constitutes progressive visions that are likely to go considerable distances ahead, once the adequate potentials are provided. He is a " Materialist" artist, one who sees material, not as an end itself, but rather as an alphabet with which to convey his ideology. Besides, simple Egyptian hieroglyphic allusions function among the elements of his work. Here is a desire to create a real Egyptian modern art- an attempt to turn the Egyptian art alphabet into a language understandable every where. |
Tony Toniato Professor of Art History, University of Venice, Italy Radio Cairo, August 1990 |
