The First Al Nitaq Art Festival
20–28/01/2000
Moataz Nasr showed in a room The Sky and Modern Egyptian Obelisks.
Al Nitaq Art Festival
Participating galleries: Mashrabia, Arabesque, Cairo Berlin, Espace Karim Francis, Cairo Atelier and The Townhouse Gallery with his apartment Annex (www.thetownhousegallery.com).
Cairo, Egypt
20–28/01/2000
Work exhibited: The Sky and Three Obelisks.
Articles
Amira Elghawaby, Downtown Art Scene Revitalized in “Middle East Times”, April 2000.
Through the organizers of the event initially wanted to hold the festival outdoor to attract more people, logistical problems make it difficult to do so, said Moataz Nasr El Din. He was hoping to build a large installation right on a downtown street but instead had to do something “smaller”. The result of his week-long effort was a beautiful room filled with warm lighting filtering through a straw mat from the ceiling on to three pillars of wood with metallic arms stretching upwards.