Curriculum Vitae
 
Mohamad Reda Abdel-Salam Abdel Rahman Sadka
 
Personal Data
   
Fame Name : Reda Abdel-Salam
Birth date : 13/11/1947
Place of birth : Suez
Activities : Painting
Email : rida.art@gmail.com
 
 
Education
 
- Graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts Cairo, 1977.
- Ph.D. in philosophy of arts, Cairo, 1988.
 
Membership
 
- Member of Cairo Atelier Group of Artists and Writers.
- Member of the Fine Artists Association.
- Member of the Fine Arts Committee, Supreme Council of Culture.
 
Jobs
 
- Illustrator at Al- Ahram newspaper from 1977 to 1981.
- ‘Al- Mussawar’ magazine, now.
- Assistant Professor, Painting Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Cairo.
 
Places of interest
 
- Suez .
- Benha .
- Cairo .
- Alexandria.
 
Solo shows
 
- Exhibitions in Cairo Atelier - 1978 - 1981 - 1988 - 1993.
- Exhibition on (Landscapes from Siwa Oasis) art gallery of Gezira Sheraton Hotel in Cairo - 1985.
- Goethe Institute Cairo - 1986.
- Arts exhibitions in Zamalek Arts Center - Cairo - 1986 - 1988 - 1989 - 1991 (boats 1) 1992 - 1996 - 1998 - (boats2 ) - Cairo.
- Goethe Institute - Cairo - 1986.
- Exhibition at the Italian Consulate in Port Said - 1988.
- Exhibition in the New Valley (Kharjah) 1988.
- Drawing Art Exhibition at Mashrabya art gallery in Cairo - 1989.
- Exhibition in Ryash art gallery - Cairo - 1991.
- Exhibition in Ragab art gallery - Cairo - 1992.
- Exhibition at the Egyptian Academy in Rome-Italy - 1995.
Exhibition in Extra art gallery - Zamalek - Cairo - (painting-sculpture) 1997.
- (Accumulations of a city) at the Cultural Palaces Authority Sohag Palace of Culture - Shataby Palace of Culture and Sidi Gaber Palace of Culture - in Alexandria - art gallery of the Faculty of Fine Arts in Luxor 1998.
- At Creation gallery - Mohandessen 2007 .
- At Arts Center - Zamalek 2008 .
 
Local exhibitions
 
- “ Paintings from Sinai” Cairo Atelier - 1984.
- “ Paintings from Siwa Oasis” 1984 Ekhnaton art gallery - Zamalek - of Cairo.
- The Annual Salon of Cairo Atelier - from 80-1984.
- The Annual Salon of Art Lovers Society from 79 to 1984 - Cairo.
- “One-piece” Exhibition at Bab El- Louq art gallery - Cairo - 1979.
- “ Selected piece” Exhibition at Al-Salam art gallery - 1981.
- The Spring Exhibition at the Socialist Union - Cairo - 76-79.
- Teachers Fine Arts Exhibition for polio patients - in Meridian art gallery - Cairo - 1983.
- General annual exhibition from 76-1985 - Cairo.
- Third Arab Youth Festival 1977 in Baghdad Iraq.
- Joint exhibitions with artist Ezz -Edeen Naguib in Goethe Institute in Cairo- 1990.
- Exhibition in Extra art gallery - Zamalek - Cairo - 1999.
- Exhibition with artist Sawsan Abul Naga in Suez 1986.
- Exhibition with artist Sawsan Abul Naga in Goethe Institute in Cairo - 1990.
- Exhibition with artist Abdul-Wahab Abdul-Mohssen in Cairo Atelier - 1992.
- Exhibition with artist Ahmed Abdel Kareem - at Extra art gallery - Cairo - 1993.
- Exhibition with artist Esmatt Dawstashy in Salama art gallery - Mohandseen - Cairo - 1995.
- Exhibition with artists Awad Al-Shimy Ahmed Abdul-Aziz at Zamalek Arts Center - 1989.
- Joint exhibition entitled “Impressions on Sinai” in Cairo Atelier - 1983.
- “Art and Turquoise” exhibition - Al-Ahram Hall - Cairo - 1983.
- Exhibition at Modern Art Museum - in Dokki - Cairo - 1984.
- Exhibition of impressions from Siwa Oasis Zamalek Arts Center - 1985.
- Exhibition of “Desert Inspiration” - Nile art gallery - Cairo - 1986.
- Exhibition of the Art Lovers Society - Cairo - 1977.
- The General National Art Exhibition - since 1976 in Cairo.
- Exhibition of the faculty members at Noon art gallery in Dokki - 1997.
- Exhibition of “Cry for Peace” Nile art gallery - Cairo - 1990.
- Exhibition at Khan al-Maghraby art gallery - Zamalek - Cairo - 1996.
- The Egyptian Contemporary Art Exhibition in art gallery of Ahram Press Foundation - in Cairo 1997.
- Exhibition `brochure` Mashrabya art gallery - Cairo - 1997 .
- (T-shirts) Exhibition - Mashrabya art gallery - Cairo - 1997.
- The 27th National Art Exhibition - 2001.
- The 6th Salon of Mini Works of Art - 2003.
- The 28th National Art Exhibition - 2003.
- The Premiere Press Illustrations Exhibition at Arts Palace - March 2004.
- The Premiere Black and White Drawing Salon - in Gezira Arts Center - May 2004.
- Form Through Light (Nour al-Shakl) Art Exhibition - November 2004.
- The 7th Salon of Mini Works of Art - 2004.
- Still Nature (Generations - Trends - Techniques) Gezira Arts Center - September 2005.
- The 29th National Art Exhibition - 2005.
- Exhibition entitled (Trip… Treatments… Creations) with the artist Sayed al-Kammash in Cairo Atelier - December 2005.
- Exhibition in Gogan art gallery - Heliopolis - on the occasion of the commemoration of the passage of half a century of the departure of the leading artist Ahmad Sabry - 2006.
- 1st Festival of Fine Creation ( General exhibition and 1st Fine Art Fair) 2007.
- Exhibition entitle ` Academic` - Gougan Gallery - Heliopolis 2007.
- Exhibition ` Free creations` Arts Academy 2007.
- 2nd Festival of Fine Creation (31st General exhibition) 2008.
 
International exhibitions
 
- 1980 - 1984 - 1994 - Alexandria Biennale.
- 1981 - Festival of Artistic Colonies in the city Bocetl (Yugoslavia).
- 1982 - Egyptian Contemporary Art Exhibition in Paris.
- 1982 - Egyptian Contemporary Art in Belgrade.
- 1984 - 1988 - Ankara Biennale.
- 1986 - Poland Drawing Biennale “War and Peace”.
- 1986 - the 1st Baghdad Biennale.
- 1988 - the II Ankara International Biennale.
- 1989 - Havana Biennale - Cuba.
- 1989 - Valberezo Biennale - Chile.
- 1989 Havana International Biennale.
- 1992 - Cane Sermer France.
- 1992 - Genoa - Italy.
- 1993 - joint exhibition with four artists from Egypt - Mariam Abdel-Aleem - Adli Rizqallah - Ismail Abdallah at art gallery of Cairo Opera House.
- 1994 - Cairo Biennale.
- 1994 Cairo International Biennale.
- 1999 - Sharjah Biennale.
- Egyptian Contemporary Painting Exhibition – among collections of the Modern Art Museum in Jordan.
 
Scholarship
 
- Grant of mutual exchange of Egypt, Switzerland for two months.
 
Assignment
 
- Commissaire of the Egyptian Pavilion in Sao Paulo Biennale, Brazil.
 
Publications and activities
 
- Preparatory sketches and its relation to plates of artist Mustafa Ahmed of the Supreme Council of Culture, 2001.
- The Egyptian Modern Drawing Art, Dar Al-Hilal 2002.
 
Local recognition
 
- Top prize for painting from the Avant-garde Competition, 1977.
- Top prize for painting in May Competition 1977.
- Top prize for painting, from the 13th General Art Exhibition, 1983.
- Honoring award for painting from the 14th General Art Exhibition, 1984.
- Second award for (painting) in the competition of (by Inspiration of the Egyptian Nature), 1985.
 
Private collection
 
- Among collections of art lovers in Egypt and abroad.
 
State collection
 
- Museum of Egyptian Modern Art.
- Museum of the Faculty Fine Arts, Cairo, and Menia.
- Museum of the City of Bocetl in Yugoslavia.
- Conference Center.
- Egyptian Opera House.
- Museum of Modern Art in Alexandria.q
 
Essays
 
* Art and Life and how to achieve them in works of Reda Abdul Salam

- I have met Reda - talked with him and listened.The process of neutralizing a work of art repeated many times - when we see a certain work of art of an artist for the first time in the absence of some information - I think it is very hard to judge this work if we do not know its creator. Hence I see that Reda`s history is closely related to the point especially that part which precedes his start in the world of art and in which he was a mechanist - then a solider - but after that he became a student in Faculty of Fine Arts. Reda says: `If a person does not know about life - he does not know art` - Reada found the opportunity to discover life which is one of the reasons behind my belief in his art.
- When we talk about art in Reda`s paintings - we find that a top priority of our subject must be - the frame. His gradual attempts towards restructuring the painted area is obvious in his first works in which he scattered colors on the frame of the painting in order to avoid the clear borders of the rectangular surface - and even at the stage when part of the frame was determined by colorful edges forming a contrast with the other parts of free formation. As for his last works - he ignores any borders of constructive formation. In his first works they were asymmetric - but his last works are heading towards non-formative in order to remove general stability of the surface - thus - the principle of internal organization of the painting is part of formation. He followed his own developed way based on an organized system that is asymmetric and vertical to reach a firm formation though lines` net do not follow any certain geometrical system - but comes from an internal prospect of a special meaning. For in this whole process one cannot only recognize the surface - but also the suggestive depth - and the several merged surfaces - and repeating it in pure mechanism adds to the last works of Reda a soul and meaning. In addition to his attempts to restructure the frame - he was struggling - and through combination of clear contrasts - Reda was one of the artists who tried since the beginning of 80`s to connect the old expertise with the new generation.
- In his paintings we will recognize - within the framework of general experience of what after the incident - the first trends of cubists especially that which remind us with Juan Greece - abstract impressionism from Bullock to Vedova - modern German savagery - non-formation - and trends beyond non-formation with some of the Islamic Art traditions (colors - human figure presence and special processing of the model).
- All these expertise are combined in a clear and distinguished entity - thus I feel that the art and works of Reda Abdul Salam are like a living creature non-restricted except by its own borders. He follows his own internal reason which is not overacted that is why it is genuine.
Percival Voloshek
Croatian Fine Critic