Portrait of Farooq the First

Highly praised Egyptian artist Chant Avedissian engages the viewer with a body of work that integrates images of iconic figures in Egyptian history, traditional Pharaonic iconography and art of the 1950s and 1960s. A Cairo-born artist with Armenian roots, Avedissian’s interests in folk art, sufi poetry, Zen principles and aestheticism are evident in his creations, which also strike a balance with Western work processes.