Me among the Pharaohs (again)

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Two years ago I was in the British Museum, live-painting in close proximity to the great artefacts of ancient Greece and Egypt.

And back in 2011 I was in the Petrie Museum of Egyptology at the University of London, exhibiting book art.

This year I have been in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo which is as you can imagine THE greatest collection of ancient Egyptian artefacts anywhere in the world.

The exhibition is “A night with Art at the Egyptian Museum”, organised by the Art D’Egypte organisation. Works by Egypt’s leading  artists shared wall space with statues, monuments, papyri and other sumptuous Pharaonic relics at Cairo’s Egyptian Museum this week in an exhibition highlighting ancient influences on contemporary art. I’m very honoured to be a part of this!

I exhibited a very big painting The Gentle Giant, at the top of this post. Unfortunately the press agency didn’t give me a namecheck! Here it is in the studio, so you can see how big it is.

 

5 Years since the King’s Land

5 years and one month in fact, as of today 🙂

[hand painted mural by Nazir Tanboui 2012]

There’s a huge wealth of  material about the project – the single biggest solo-artist street art project EVER in London –   out there, from a BBC film shown all over the world during the Olympics, to my own blog.

web page

my own blog

 

And a 23 minute documentary, directed by Gillian McIver, that follows the project from start to finish. Click the image to launch the video or go to https://vimeo.com/106798845

5 years since THE KING’S LAND

Hey, it’s 5 years since I did the King’s Land project in Haggerston East London, in spring-summer 2012. I spent 4 months covering a condemned housing estate in murals – all of them drawn by hand! Not a spray can in sight. A lot of it was paste ups but some of it I painted directly on the wall. Will post more of this over the next few days.

The idea was not to do ‘street art’ as much as, to activate the space, to bring life into a dead zone.

me, with Valentin Manz at work

the colour wall, acrylic on paper

‘THE BIG FISHPOND’  ink on paper

me; ink on paper

“TRIUMVIRATE” EXHIBITION MOJO GALLERY DUBAI, ART DUBAI 2017

 

NAZIR TANBOULI, THE LANDSCAPES OF JOY

L. MOHAMED ABOUELNAGA; C. CHEKHOU BA; R. NAZIR TANBOULI

L. NAZIR TANBOULI “A DREAM OF YOU” ; R. CHEIKOU BA

L. CHEIKHOU BA; C. MOHAMED ABOUELNAGA; R. NAZIR TANBOULI

NAZIR TANBOULI “LANDSCAPES OF JOY” AT MOJO GALLERY

MOJO GALLERY TRIUMVIRATE EXHIBITION

ABOIUT THE TRIUMVIRATE EXHIBITION

 

From Dalston to Dubai …

DUBAI March 2107

From Dalston to Dubai …

I hope to see you in Dubai Mojo Gallery from  the 13th of March 2017 during ….  DUBAI ART FAIR.

“Triumvirate” brings together 3 artists with origins in Africa (Egypt and Senegal) exploring our own “individual cultural influences and self expression” through work that “reveals, re-configures and explores some of the countless facets and layers of Africa’s identity.” In any case, my work is a colour riot and into the pot I’ve thrown all kinds of sights and impressions from London streets to Egyptian myth.

 

http://themojogallery.com/exhibitions/triumvirate.html

Demented

Over 10 years ago and after the death of my father I painted this 120x180cm canvas

days after i finished ,i painted over it

i felt that the subject is too dark and too negative to be shared with  the world.

I made a decision then to paint about the joy of living, positive vibes and enlightenment .

but today’s piece of history ,Donald Trump being an elected president of the United States of America

forgive people  me this the  only kind of painting you are gonna get from me today

we’re going to reap just what we sow

Performance Drawing in Liverpool – pictures