Sobhi Girgis Saad

Personal data

Known name: Sobhi Girgis
Date of birth: 12/20/1929
Place of birth: Cairo
Date of death: 1/2013
Specialization: Sculpture
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school grade
- Diploma in Fine Arts, Cairo Sculpture Department, 1958.
- Diploma from the Academy of Fine Arts, Florence, Italy, 1964.
Membership
- Member of the Fine Artists Syndicate.
Jobs and professions undertaken by the artist
- Professor and former head of the Sculpture Department at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Cairo.
- He currently works as a full-time professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cairo.
Places where the artist lived
- Cairo .
- Italy .
Special exhibitions
- Exhibition in Akhenaten Hall, Nile Palace, 1971.
- Exhibition in Akhenaten Hall, Zamalek Arts Complex, 1981, 1994.
- Bshouna Art Exhibition 1985.
- Exhibition at Doroub Hall 1996.
- Exhibition at Cairo Atelier 2002.
- Exhibition in (Rateb Siddiq) Hall, Cairo Atelier, October 2004.
- Exhibition in Ofoq Hall (1) at the Muhammad Mahmoud Khalil Museum and his campus, June 2007.
- Exhibition (The Self and the Other) at (Art Talk) Hall in Zamalek, February 2014.
- Exhibition at Karim Francis Gallery 2015.
Local group exhibitions
- Contemporary Egyptian Art Exhibition at the Grand Serail in Paris - France, March 1976.
- Contemporary Egyptian Art Exhibition at the Fine Arts Hall in Cairo, June 1976.
- General Exhibition of Fine Arts, session (21) 1990.
- A group exhibition at the Arts Complex in Zamalek with Mustafa Al-Razzaz and Taha Hussein, 1994.
- National Fine Arts Exhibition, session (24) 1995, session (25) 1997.
- Honorees Exhibition 1996.
- Cairo Salon of Art and Design (SCAD 90).
- National Fine Arts Exhibition, session (27) 2001.
- Fifth Salon of Small Works of Art 2002.
- Guest of honor at an exhibition by the late artist Hamed Nada.
- National Fine Arts Exhibition, session (28) 2003.
- The First Sculpture Salon of Noble Materials at the Palace of Arts 2005 (special invitation).
- National Fine Arts Exhibition, session (29) 2005.
- (Art and Giving) Exhibition at the Orouba Rotary Club 2007.
- The First Fine Creativity Festival (Egypt Salon, first session) 2007.
- The Second Fine Creativity Festival (General Exhibition, Thirty-First Session) 2008.
- Atelier Salon, 56th session, Cairo Atelier, 2008.
- “New Horizons” exhibition at Gogan Hall in Zamalek, November 2008.
- Gallery Salon, second session, in One Horizon Hall, May 2008.
- The Third Fine Creativity Festival (General Exhibition, Thirty-Second Session) 2009.
- Exhibition (Panorama of Egyptian Sculpture) in (Zamalek Art Hall) November 2009.
- General Exhibition of Fine Arts, session (34) 2012.
- Cairo Salon (56) of Fine Arts at the Palace of Arts, March 2013.
- An exhibition at the Saad Zaghloul Cultural Center in the Saad Zaghloul Museum, April 2019.
- An exhibition entitled (Selections) at the Ibdaa Gallery in Zamalek, November 2019.
- An exhibition entitled (Mally Fat Teams) at the Saad Zaghloul Cultural Center - House of the Nation Museum - December 2019.
- An exhibition entitled (Twenty Years of Creativity) at the Ibdaa Gallery in Zamalek, November 2020.
- Exhibition (Variations 1) at Saad Zaghloul Cultural Center - House of the Nation Museum, March 2021.
- An exhibition entitled (Selections) at the (Creativity) Gallery in Zamalek, March 2022.

International group exhibitions / overseas exhibitions

- International Biennale for Physical Sports, Spain, 1973.
- Venice Biennale 1976.
- Biennale of Spain and India.
- Arab Art Exhibition in Kuwait.
- Alexandria Biennale for Mediterranean Countries, session (18) 1994.
- The Fifth Cairo International Biennale 1994.
- National Arts Biennale (Path of the Sun) in Ecuador 2006.
- Participation in the Beijing Olympics celebrations - China, September 2008.
- International Autumn Salon in Paris - France, October 2008.
- Fine Arts Exhibition within the activities of the Second African Cultural Festival scheduled to be held in Algeria - July 2009.

Scholarships and grants

He traveled to Italy on a scholarship, where he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and obtained a diploma in 1964.

The technical tasks assigned to him and general contributions

- The first artist to establish a museum for a collection of his productions in the Fine Arts Village in Ajami (Shouna) in the museum hosting project for the stars of fine art.

Local and international encyclopedias in which the artist's name is listed

- Encyclopedia (Modern Egyptian Art), written by: Lillian Krnock, 2001.

Local awards

- State Appreciation Award in Arts 2008.

International awards

- Medal and Certificate of Appreciation from the International Biennale for Physical Sports in the Arts in Spain 1973.
- First Prize (Sculpture) in the Alexandria Biennale for Mediterranean Countries, session (18) 1994.
- Jury Prize at the Fifth Cairo International Biennale 1994.

Special collectibles

- Among some individuals in Egypt, America, France, England, Italy, and Austria.

Official collectibles

- Museum of Modern Egyptian Art in Cairo.

The influences that affected the artist intellectually and artistically

- I am in love with the models that I make, and I am very narcissistic with them. My experience, even though it was harsh, had a special taste. It makes me feel alone. The experience of the great professors who preceded me was always before me, and after I saw thousands of personalized figures by great artists, ancient and modern, I had to practice abstraction as well. Until I wondered: Why don't I add something to the diagnostician and do what the diagnosticians did not do?
- I do not know how I succeeded in creating characters by recomposing them and formulating them again in a composition different from the usual vision. I do not know how you did these works, but they are just as music comes to a composer who is determined to create a new work that he is convinced of. In short, it is inspiration. These new works were a surprise to the audience, and between their acceptance, rejection, and abstention from expressing their opinion, my conviction in these works came.