April 20, 2009

It is a great pleasure to welcome Mr. Ehab Ellaban As WPMP Artist Ambassador to Egypt. Ambassador Ellaban is an exiting and very talented artist sculptor and a cultural operator.

WPMP Artist Ambassador Salwa Zeidan introduced Mr. Ehab to our project and the rest is the beginning of the history of Egypt's representation on the Worldwide Peace Marker Project.

On Behalf of all of the ambassadors I welcome you Mr. Ehab, to this first of its kind cultural adventure towards a new conceptual idea of world peace.

Following are some particulars about our new Artist Ambassador...

Born in Cairo in 1976, Ehab Ellaban leads a dual career as a creator and as a cultural operator; his creative practice comprises a career of contemporary sculpture, both in white cube and public open space commissions.

His works have been exhibited internationally in Italy, France, Romania, Kuwait and China.

As a cultural operator, Ellaban is the artistic director of Horizon Gallery, one of the Egyptian public spaces satellite to the Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil Musuem

he has managed, co-directed and directed numerous local and international shows, among which:

Cairo Biennale (2008-2009) Commisioner

Photography of Chima Madoth (2007),

The Author’s Book and the Artist’s Print (2006),

Contemporary Spanish Photography (2006),

Contemporary Art from Italy (2005),

Contemporary Painting from Argentina (2005),

Cairo Biennale (2004, co-curator),

All-Egyptian Artists Exhibition (2003).

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