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Eveline Ashamalla, EGYPT, Stadttheater Fürth, Fürth (Bavaria), 25.04. - 03.06.1999

Eveline Ashamalla (b. 1948)

Eveline Ashamalla was born in 1948 in Kafr El-Sheikh, Egypt.

She graduated in Fine Art at the University of Alexandria in 1973. Since then she worked for various public and private artist-organisations, was from 1993 to 1995 director of the Mohammed Nagy Museum and from 2000 to 2002 director of the Egypt Modern Art Museum.

Eveline Ashamalla had numerous national and international exhibitions of her own artwork and was awarded in 1992 with the "Faust-prize" of the Goethe-Institute Cairo.

Eveline Ashamalla’s pictures are not narrative, they rather conjure up associations. They integrate mystic and surrealistic elements with ancient Egyptian symbols. Her figures are secret and ambivalent: children with adult faces, animals with human eyes, flower leaves like tongues of flame seem to belong simultaneously to different times and worlds. Feminine intuitive, knowledge of natural science and magic are set up in balance to the surrounding materialistic world and seemingly connect the past to an imaginary future.

Eveline Ashamalla lives and works in Cairo.

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Eveline Ashamalla (b.1948), Untitled, 1999, Mixed media on paper, Sheet size 27 x 21 cm, Signed

With a dedication by Eveline Ashamalla: "To Renate and John with Love, Eveline Ashamalla Fürth 6/5/1999".

A present from Eveline Ashamalla to John and Renate Hammond on the occasion of er solo show at the Stadttheater Fürth in Fürth (Bavaria) in 1999.