Ganzeer: Culture in Action
“I'm not exactly a graphic designer, nor am I a product designer. I am not particularly a street-artist or comic book artist, nor am I an installation artist, writer, speaker, or video-maker. But I've had the chance to assume one of those roles at different periods of time and in different locations around the world.”
Ganzeer, a multidisciplinary artist based in Cairo, Egipt, is considered one of the key figures on that part of the Egyptian art scene which is socially engaged and speaks up for the public space. As a participant of the European Culture Congress, Ganzeer will take part in the discussion “Culture in action”.
In this gallery we present his design products, critical stickers, murals from a “Martyr Murals” series, fragments from his exhibitions, comic books, examples of video installations and public interventions.
The gallery starts from the page from an Egyptian graphic novel, “Ruins of the Future”, created by Ganzeer in collaboration with George Azmy in 2009 and published by the Contemporary Image Collective in Cairo, as part of their Temporary Publishing House project, and ends with the sticker for which he was briefly detained during the Egiptian revolution. The sticker reads: “New! The Mask of Freedom. A salute from the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces to the sons of the loving nation. Now available for an unlimited period of time.”
