Bringing forth engaging universal works, Moataz Nasr borrows and is deeply inspired by his native country, Egypt and by Sufism. A self-taught artist, Nasr started in Egypt with a conventional media - painting - back in the early 1990s. After winning numerous local awards, his work soared dramatically in volume and international recognition and broadened to include video, performance art and installations. For over a decade, Nasr exhibited his versatile multi-media works across the four corners of the globe. The irony however is that this international recognition did not resonate in his native country, as Nasr remained absent from the local art scene for over a decade. Untitled, his exhibition at ArtTalks Gallery in Cairo, represents a milestone in the artist’s career – an impassionate desire to return to his native land as an artist and to his artistic roots with abstract painting. The new paintings derive from years of of subconscious accumulation of turmoil, revolutions, peace, war.
