Ahmed Fouad Selim
Sculptor Gamal Abd El Nasser takes a great risk of incalculable consequences as he boldly ventures into mazes that are both spontaneous and well-wrought, of a possibly postmodernist nature.
Gamal Abd El Nasser defies all conventions of both traditional and modernist aesthetics, he seeks after establishing a different aesthetic that partakes of a great deal of deliberate distortion, of irony, probably of a certain black humor and mainly of constant protest.
He has given up the sedate composure of sculpture as we have known it for aeons, he completely ignores values of solidity, durability or harmonic distribution of mass, Yet he does not, in most cases, ignore a certain attention to balance, that may reach a high degree of latent musicality.
Edward Al Kharrat
Is there a high art and a low art? This is a question raised by Gamal Abd El Nasser's work. For him, art is a process of interliving with objects and not a fundamentalist metaphysics. Gamal Abd El Nasser's mixed media, as he prefers calling it, reflects a strong control of balance and proportion without losing the spirit of folkloric art. This has helped him make childish discoveries, combining all sorts of every objects to insinuate strange forms with a magic inspiration. The effect is grotesque.
Marie-Therese Abdel-Messih
Gamal Abd El Nasser is joyful about life. His non-traditional sculptures have a sense of impermanence which reflects the chaotic and rapid cultural changes affecting life today. His work is a melding of traditional Egyptian techniques with casual and often funny representations of people, animals and flowers, wrapped in startling day-glo colours. Gamal incorporates found objects into his pieces and recycles such items as flower pots and wires, giving them a new life as hats and outstretched arms on his flamboyant figures.
Muriel Allen