Marco Noire Contemporary Art -

MONA MARZOUK

	INDUSTRIAL HAREM, 2003 wood/PV sculpture 199,35x249,88x178,64 cm 3 paintings oil on canvas 140x110 cm each exhibited: "Transferts" Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels a production by AFRICALIA	In her monumental sculptures Mona Marzouk (1968, Egypt) breaks down the distance between civilisations, while in her paintings she reduces each work to a pair of colours, close in hue-one the ground, the other a mysterious palace floating in space. Some of her works have the closest matching colours, which made the architectural forms virtually disappear in the room, as it was in a recent successful series of site -specific wall paintings. Marzouk can use her own history, from past to present Egypt, to accept cultural influences and, as a result, imagine a fully hybridised future. ( From Marilu Knode "Mona Marzouk" in VitaminP. New perspectives in paintings - Phaidon Press, 2002) In 2002 Marco Noire Contemporary Art presented the work of Marzouk in a solo exhibition and with a special wall project for Project Room in ARCO, Madrid, Spain Her work was included in the prestigious books: - "Fresh Cream", Phaidon Press, 2000 - "VitaminP" New perspectives in paintings", Phaidon Press, 2002 Her installation RECONFIGURED MONUMENTS is permanently exhibited in Modern Art Gallery (GAM) , Turin, Italy.
	Wall paintings for Institute of Visual Arts (INOVA) University of Winsconsin-Milwaukee USA, 2001