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9A Letters

Artist Hazem el Mestikawy Egyptian, 1965–2024

Date2005

Associated withAfrica

MediumRecycled cardboard and paper; nine components

DimensionsLinear installation of nine components: approx. 177 in. (449.6 cm)

ClassificationsWood

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest)

Object number2008.13/a-i

On View

Not on view

ProvenanceCreated 1965; collection of the artist, Vienna and Cairo; sold to NCMA, 2008.Published ReferencesType Faces (exhibition catalogue) (Waidhoffen/Ybbs, Austria: Stadt Museum, 2006),

Programm:Text - Schrift als Form, Kunst als Poesie (exhibition catalogue) (Vienna: Praesens Verlag, 2007), illus. (color) pl. 3.

Lower Austria Contemporary 2007 (gallery guide), illus. (color) unpaginated.

Manal el-Jesri, "Back to the Basics" in Egypt Today (January 2009), briefly discussed 68, illus. (color details) 66, 68.

“NKA Roundtable III: Contemporary African Art and the Museum,” in NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art 31 (Fall 2012), illus. (color) 106–107.
Exhibition HistoryVienna, Austria, Galerie Atrium ed Arte, "UND+ (Bild und Schrift)," October 22, 2005-February 11, 2006.

Waidhofen/Ybbs, Austria, Stadt Museum, "Type Faces," April 21-May 14, 2006.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–October 23, 2023.

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