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Artist Statement:
Nazir Tanbouli is an artist
whose approach to his art is
like that of a scientist
confronting the wonders of the
natural world: amazed at its
wonder and variety, but
approaching it with rigour and
method as well as
extraordinary passion.
Tanbouli’s chosen medium is
drawing, and whatever he
produces – drawing,
printmaking, painting,
installation and video – is
all about drawing, all about
line and structure and
expressing complex ideas
through a simple method. Or so
it seems, for in fact
Tanbouli’s work is anything
but simple.
Tanbouli’s body of work to
date confounds all sorts of
critics: traditionalists who
applaud his concentration on
drawing and composition, and
“conceptualists” who are
astonished by his sheer
technical brilliance. The
artist has managed to marry a
highly conceptual approach to
a rigorously refined and
dedicated process. His
approach to drawing is that of
a vocation, a continuing
search for perfection in line.
Not since Ingres has there
been an artist so dedicated to
the line above all. His line
goes exactly where it needs to
go, from strictly
observational to deeply
grotesque - without his pen
leaving the surface.
Like Ingres, Tanbouli’s
approach is generated from the
womb of the ...
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Exhibitions for Nazir Tanbouli:
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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 "Private Nightmares" Redgate Gallery, London
2008 "Constructed Mythologies" Whitewall, Milton Keynes Contemporary.
2006 "Men and Insects" solo mural project. Rich & Famous Gallery, London.
2006 Solo exhibition, De Montfort Hall, Leicester.
2005 "Nazir Tanbouli" Solo exhibition, Factory-Berlin, Berlin.
2005 “3 Films by Nazir Tanbouli” The Collection, Usher Gallery, Lincoln.
2005 “Urban History” solo mural project. Permanent installation, City Arts Nottingham.
2003 Solo exhibition, Art Exchange Gallery, Nottingham.
2002 Solo exhibition, De Montfort Hall, Leicester.
2001 Solo exhibition, Palace of Art Appreciation, Alexandria, Egypt.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 "Tales for the Electric Forest" St Pancras Crypt Gallery, London
2008 "Salon", Whitecross Gallery, London
2008 "Postindustrial Baroque" Globe City, Newcastle upon Tyne
2008 "Next we change Earth" New Art Exchange, Nottingham
2007-8 “Prospero's Library”, Central House of Artists, and touring. Moscow
2007 "Coldstore," Kühlhaus am Gleisdreieck, Berlin
2007 "Cinetaxis" collaboration with SDNA, London
2007 "Prospero's Library" Moscow Central House of Artists, and touring
2006 "Transpositions" Conjunction 06, Works Gallery, Birmingham
2006 "Lighten Up" Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge
2006 "A Very Public Display" (video) Space Berlin
2005 “Urban Clearance” Gallery PS2 & site-specific, Belfast
2005 “NG7 Utopia” Art Exchange Gallery, Nottingham
2005 Group show (video) at Treptower Rathaus, Berlin
2005 ArtConcept Festival, St Petersburg Russia
2004 Group show 291 Gallery. London
2004 “Tiefenrauch Ost” Group Exhibition. T.R.O. Factory-Berlin. Berlin.
2004 Group Exhibition, Nottingham Castle
2004 Trio Exhibition, Black Friars Art Centre, Boston.
2002 Group exhibition, Art Exchange Gallery Nottingham.
2001 Group exhibition, Goethe Institute, Alexandria.
2001 Cairo Festival of Contemporary Art, Townhouse Gallery Cairo
2000 Cairo Festival of Contemporary Art, Townhouse Gallery Cairo
1996 Cairo International Biennale, Cairo.
1995 Egyptian Contemporary Art, touring exhibition, Vienna.
1995 International Biennale Of Young Artists, Argentina.
1995 Egyptian Contemporary Art, touring exhibition. Argentina.
1993 - 1995 National Salon Of Youth, Cairo.
1991 Group exhibition at Palace of Art Appreciation, Alexandria
1990 Group exhibition at Alexandria Academy of Fine Art
1990 Group exhibition at Goethe institute, Alexandria.
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