Adam Henein (Egypt, 1929-2020) The Amphora Carrier
Provenance : [Propriété non datée]
- Property from a private collection, Cairo 'I was steeped in Egyptian Pharaonic art, right from childhood
- I lived with that art, I lived in that art, or rather it dwelled in me as soon as I began to sense and perceive the elements and beings of the world around me
- Pharaonic sculpture appears as a block, which, although apparently stable and motionless, is animated by an inner movement, making the dense and intimidating mass into a block that is once compact and mobile
- It is on the basis of this principle that the Pharaohs were able to combine heaviness with grace; their sculpted blocks seemed, in spite of their weight and their mass, to float on water.' - Adam Henein
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