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Omar El Nagdi

Omar El Nagdi (1931 - 2019) was active/lived in Egypt.  Omar Nagdi is known for Synthesizing Egyptian culture, Pharaonic traditions, Islamic art, and folkloric heritage in his artwork..

Omar El Nagdi was born in Egypt in 1931. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Cairo in 1953 and continued his training in Russia and Italy, graduating from the Academy of Venice in 1965. He held his first exhibition in Cairo in 1950. An active member of Cairo's art community, El Nagdi was a member of the Liberal Artist's group headed by Taha Hussein, and formed the Egyptian Mosaics Group in 1964.

He received awards at three Alexandria biennials in 1966, 1968, and 1974. Artist, philosopher, and musician Omar El Nagdi is renowned for his series of works based on singular forms of calligraphy. Initiated in the 1960s and 1970s, El Nagdi's practice creates rhythmic abstractions based on the repetition of the Arabic numeral for 'one' (wahed), which shares its form with the first letter of the Arabic alphabet, Alef.

With minimal form, El Nagdi builds a pulsating and multi-dimensional composition that symbolises the indivisible nature of the divine. The multi-disci   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2400 characters.]  Artist bio

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