Ganzeer

Loose Shorts

Ganzeer

Loose Shorts

Format

Book

Dimensions

11 × 8.5 in

Pages

52

Publisher

Garage Ganzeer

Collection

$ 40.00

1 in stock


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University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Ganzeer operates between art, design, storytelling, and creating what he has coined as: Concept Pop, a brand of cultural insurgency that utilizes the aesthetics birthed by Pop Art in tackling the subject matter typically ascribed to Conceptual Art. Includes 10 short comics from Ganzeer, signed by the artist.

“In Cairo, art has come to be regarded as such a dangerous weapon that, last week, a prominent artist was falsely accused of being a terrorist. The artist, Ganzeer, is one of the few agitators to have rendered Sisi, publishing an inflammatory portrait online. After Ganzeer’s collaboration in a global graffiti campaign against Sisi attracted the attention of the television host Osama Kamal, Kamal wrongly called Ganzeer a member of the Muslim Brotherhood—which was outlawed by the Egyptian state in December. Ganzeer’s tag is known from Cairo to Vienna, but he had previously remained anonymous. Nevertheless, the broadcaster aired a photo of him on the evening news, using his real name as a scare tactic. It was startling because the thirty-two-year-old graphic artist has produced a vitriolic body of work against Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood. “Being anti-Sisi in itself is not a crime,” Ganzeer wrote on his blog. “So I guess Mr. Osama thought it necessary to attach a fictitious crime to my name.”” — Johanthan Guyer, “Picturing Egypt’s Next President”, New Yorker, May 22, 2014