KUNSTFORUM International published a feature on 27 March 2018 on the Egypt Pavilion at the fifty third Venice Biennale, under a headline on Adel El Siwi and Ahmad Askalany at the Egypt Pavilion, using the Italian motto Leggermente monumentale. The published headline is kept as it appears on the card title.
The text describes entering the Giardini pavilion and being met by large, faceless figures in palm leaf by Ahmad Askalany, leaning in as a greeting party, before turning to Adel El Siwi, who is named as curator of the pavilion as well as one of its two artists. The gallery is not named. Askalany does not have an artist page on the site and is named in the copy only.
The feature remains a substantial German magazine account of a roster artist's work at Venice, alongside later coverage of El Siwi already on the News page.
The motto Lightly monumental is set against the scale of the figures and against El Siwi's role in shaping the rooms. The text is part of KUNSTFORUM's coverage of national pavilions at that Venice Biennale.
Tabari represents Adel El Siwi.
