Mediamatic.net - Mahmoud Menaysy visual artist

"In few years Menaysy was able to unleash his deep powerful art character submitting it to experience the Modern Art. In the last years, this young talented artist introduced important answers to art perplexes. For instance how to tackle the contradiction thesis and the importance of shock and contrast.

If he tackles woman’s body, he will incarnate the ethereal treasure that carry the space to express the entire existence of universe, thus it would be the cold deaf material that explodes to protest against all solid, cold, soft, thick, soulless, and mindless.
Even though, Menaysy still faithful to the system and method, even his keen on the systematic aestheticism margined his original theory of omission and protest, settle it among shock and contrast factors to unveil the artificial consumed stereotyped".
Ahmed Fouad Selim
director of the Egyptian Modern Art Museum (Cairo)

Birth date : 16/3/1970
Place of birth : Alexandria
Member of the Fine Artists Association.
Member of Alexandria and Cairo Atelier.
Independent visual artist, expressing himself through painting, sculpture, installations and videoart.

Projects
• Commissioner & the General Coordinator of the Project ( Exchange modern and contemporary art ) in Egypt .
• Commissioner & the General Coordinator of the Project ( Utopia ) in Egypt
Scholarship
. Sabbatical leave of the Ministry of Culture, 1996/2005.

Solo shows
. Twenty personal exhibitions
- Exhibitions on the Cairo Atelier Gallery - Egypt. 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2005, 2006, 2007.
- German cultural Center in Alexandria – Egypt 1993.
- Russian Cultural Center in Alexandria 1994.
- Alexandria Museum of Fine Arts in February 1995.
- Alexandria Atelier in Egypt 1995.
- Spanish Cultural Center in Alexandria in March 1997.
- Zamalek Arts Complex in March 1998.
- Aljazira Center for Arts, Zamalek, Cairo – Egypt. 2002.
- Mahmoud Mokhtar Museum in Cairo – Egypt. 2006.
- Center of Arts, Zamalek in Cairo – Egypt. 2004 (Stars Youth Salon).
National Group Exhibitions:
. One hundred and twenty group exhibitions.
International Exhibitions & Workshop:
. The 7th Cairo International Biennale, 1998.
. The 21st Alexandria International Biennale of Mediterranean Countries, 2001,
. Al-Shouf International Art Symposium in Lebanon, 2001.
Local and international Who's Who
. Youth Salon Encyclopedia, First Edition, edited by Dr. Sobhy el-Sharoony, 1994, Sector of Fine Arts Publications.
. Youth Salon Encyclopedia, Second Edition, edited by critic Mohammed Hamza, Sector of Fine Arts Publications, 2002.

Local recognition
Jury prize for painting, the 7th Youth Salon, 1995.
Second prize for drawing, the 8th Youth Salon, 1996.
Prize for drawing, Alexandria Youth Salon, 1997.
Top prize for installation, the 9th Youth Salon, 1997.
Encouraging prize, the 14th Youth Salon, 2002.

Private collection
Among collections of art lovers in Egypt, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Italy, Sweden, South Africa, U.S.A, and Kuwait.
State collecti