Youssef Nabil (Egyptian, b. 1972)
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Literature : Octavio Zaya, Youssef Nabil, Ghada Amer, Faten Hamama and Shirin Neshat, YOUSSEF NABIL: I won't let you die, Ostfildern, 2008 (illustrated in colour p. 239)
Anmerkung : From time to time, Christie's may offer a lot which it owns in whole or in part. This is such a lot.This lot offered for sale is subject to a 5% import duty on the importation value levied at the time of collection/shipment within the UAE.Youssef Nabil's self portraits are executed in muted tones of paint complimenting a nuanced approach to light and shadow. Each tightly cropped and guarded composition contains palpable pangs of longing and displacement and a heavy sense of yearning. Undercurrents of dreaming and death are prominent: Self Portrait, Vincennes, 2003 shows a lifeless body stretched out under the green foliage of the Parisian woods, as if sleeping, or lying devoid of life.Beautiful, conflicting and at times unsettling, Nabil's self-portraits offer an in-depth narrative with the intertwining of the eternal with quasi interchangeable states of death and slumber. While hisprevious work has been heavily influenced by the photo-novellas which once accompanied the classic cinema, his self-portraits seem to more wholly embrace the genre.
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