Uma "provocação" criada no ínicio do século XX e que permanace numa praça da cidade do Cairo.
Depois de muito procurar [sempre persistente nos meus objectivos] encontro uma imagem actual, um primeiro ensaio e alguma informação sobre esta escultura - Nadhat Misr - realizada por Mahmoud Mukhtar, em 1920.
Um parêntesis para visitar a história:
"1919: Popular revolution against the British Protectorate fills the streets of Cairo with protests, including groups of women led by the feminist nationalist, Huda Shaarawi. Protestors and politicians, headed by the nationalist Sa’ad Zaghlul, succeed in gaining a promise of independence for Egypt. Mukhtar, still in Paris and working briefly as the sculptural director at the Grévin Wax Museum, is inspired by these events and creates the first version of his most famous sculpture, Nahdat Misr (Egypt’s Reawakening), a nationalist work blending modernist technique with pharaonic motifs. It receives honorable mention at the 1920 Salon of the Société des Artistes Français.
1920: A delegation of Egyptian students, in Paris to negotiate Egyptian independence, visits Mukhtar’s studio, where he shows them his new sculpture before it is exhibited at the Salon. The delegation, captivated by the composition, decides to spearhead a campaign to commission a monumental version of Nahdat Misr for one of Cairo’s public squares (Abū Ghāzī and Boctor 52).
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1922: Alongside these changes, Mukhtar insists on creating his sculpture, Nahdat Misr, in pink granite from Aswan, like the ancient Egyptians, instead of bronze.
20 May 1928: Mukhtar’s monumental Nahdat Misr is unveiled in Bab el-Hadid Square directly facing the main train station. The event is produced with much fanfare and many prominent figures attend the event."
[16-10-2017]
Fonte:
http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/dadasur/dadasur19/dadasur19-dikaseggerman.htm
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