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Ihab Bishai
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Ihab Bishai



Ihab Bishai was born in Suez, Egypt,1958.At the age of 9 his family was relocated to Alexandria where he was raised in a moderate educated family. He started drawing since early childhood as his only passion.As he grew up between the tranquility
of both the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea,he found the vast expanse of shorelines and clear skies as his first inspirations,
and at the age of 16 he was introduced by a family friend to the famous Egyptian painter Seif Wanly who took Bishai under his
wings for two years to attend his private painting classes.
In 1985,he immigrated to the US in order to pursue his artistic endeavours, there he attended the Philadelphia college of arts
and the Pennsylvania academy of fine arts in order to strengthen his abilities and knowledge of arts, he then was able to develop
his own style being always in doubt about the modern American movements, in particular abstract expressionism and the NY
school which remained as the basic starting point for almost all art that he examined and that he learned.
Bishai was then able to obtain his first one man show at the Glasborough state college gallery in NJ, followed by showes across the united states. Over the years, he gained a body of collectors who admired his work and style.
In 2001, he moved to Helsinki, Finland, after meeting his wife in the US. As the surroundings and the general attitude towards
life around him changed, in particular the serenity and reality of the Scandinavian countries and in Finland in particular, he started to find his true direction in art.
Today, the work of Bishai has developed into a visual statement that invites the viewer to re-think the relations between the human being and the universe around him, with his Figures showing such fragility and weightlessness.
" As we develop our strengths in life, says Bishai, building wealth, highrises,fame,fortune,power and domination, we do not realize how fragile we really are". He believes and always has in the spiritual aspects of art and in the realities of it, which changes and evolves according to the time period during which it is created.


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