SAiD BADR

Said Badr was born in the Kafr El Sheikh governorate in 1965. He studied sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Alexandria, receiving both a bachelor’s and a master’s degrees in 1998, and then received a scholarship to study at the Carrara Academy in Italy from 2000 to 2004, where he received a Ph.D. in techniques of magnification and minimization in stone sculpture.

The artworks of the sculptor Badr are closely linked to ancient Egyptian sculpture. His works carry that sort of sobriety, gravity and oldness when he manipulates tough materials, while casting upon them a contemporary and more abstract character. Despite the solemn and firm qualities of such materials, we find that Badr manifests in them a state of spiritual sublimation. He relies upon the potential energy of the artworks, and thus he achieves a rare case of purity of the form.

Badr’s works carry certain implications that are related to his awareness of an important message, that of the human history, and thus his sculptures rise to stand as new guards for this history.

Badr has been teaching at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Alexandria since 1991. He is also a member of the Plastic Artists’ Syndicate and has exhibited in Egypt, Algeria, Sudan, Oman, Kuwait, Italy, Austria, France, China, Russia and Canada. He has also been part of Alexandria’s 19th, 23rd and 24th Biennales for Mediterranean Countries. Badr has sculpted monumental field artworks all over Egypt, as well as in Germany, Spain, Portugal, Lebanon and Turkey.

Said Badr Dream of Joseph , 2017 Black granite on wooden plinth 30 x 40 x 15 cm

Said Badr History Guards 1 , 2017 Black granite on wooden plinth 100 x 50 x 50 cm

Images courtesy of the artist