Three Obelisks in Alexandria
1998
Moataz Nasr exhibited three sculptures in the shape of two-meters-high pyramids made of wood and metal, with the title Three Obelisks.
The First Show for Artists over 35 Years and Honoured at the Museum of Fine Arts
Museum of Fine Arts, Husin Sobhi, Alexandria, Egypt
1998
Work exhibited: Three Obelisks
Articles
Khaled Hafez, Wooden Skies. Moataz Nasr embodies the human dilemma with a chess game of mud and water in “Egypt Today”, December 2000, p. 36. (www.egypttoday.com)
In previous a installation entitles Three Obelisks, Nasr approached spirituality in a similar way. Three pyramid-like two-meter structures were erected by using layers of raw wood with a metal frame resembling a satellite antenna protruding from the top of each. “I built three pyramids, one for the memory of my late mother who died two days before the work was exhibited, the other for the life of my father, and the third for myself, because I know I deserve it!” Nasr says mockingly.
Given the simplicity of the way Nasr moves, talks, thinks, behaves, and the sophistication of his bold art, perhaps he does deserve one.