{"id":1416,"date":"2012-10-08T22:28:56","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T20:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mused-mosaik.de\/?p=1416"},"modified":"2014-06-10T22:08:40","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T20:08:40","slug":"micro-mosaic-star-saad-romany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mused-mosaik.de\/en\/micro-mosaic-star-saad-romany\/","title":{"rendered":"Micro Mosaic Star: Saad Romany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mused-mosaik.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Video_Saad_Romany.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Video Saad Romany Mikhaiel\" alt=\"Video Saad Romany Mikhaiel\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mused-mosaik.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Video_Saad_Romany-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span><span>He lives and works in Cairo and is known for his celebrity portraits: Saad Romany has immortalized Omar Sharif, Queen Elizabeth and Oprah Winfrey in tiny glass particles.\u00a0<\/span><span>But also his more abstract works such as<em> Spirit of Music <\/em>have gained international attention.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Jack of all trades<\/h4>\n<p><span><span>The 50-year-old studied fine arts in Tehran.\u00a0<\/span><span>And worked as an interior designer, design consultant and jeweler. That is why he\u00a0is perfectly familiar w<\/span><span>ith the processing of small parts such as diamonds, rubies and emeralds.\u00a0<\/span><span>Besides the use of traditional mosaic techniques his experience comes in cutting and fixing of different materials inures to be very good. He<\/span><span>\u00a0has now been practicing mosaic art for over 20 years.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><span>Micro Mosaic Pioneer<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span><span>In the last two years the grey bearded artist has participated in two exhibitions in the Cairo Opera House and the Coptic Museum in Cairo.\u00a0<\/span><span>He was the world&#8217;s first micro-mosaic artist with a solo exhibition.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>Saad Romani is celebrated by many critics\u00a0as the pioneer of modern micro mosaic.\u00a0<\/span><span>So far he still sells none of his works. In his eyes this would mean<\/span><span>\u00a0to remain hidden. His aim is it <\/span><span>to enrich as many people with his art.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>As part of his exhibition at the Cairo Opera House was this video.\u00a0<\/span><span>It displays many of his works:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Fascinating immortality<\/h4>\n<p><span>Saad Romany once described his enthusiasm for micro mosaics in an interview with Egypt&#8217;s Al Masry Alyoum Newspaper:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span><span>Although I worked for a period as decorative jewelry designer and engineer in one of the major Arab companies, the micro mosaic art attracted me, through its potentials and its special formulation ability.\u00a0<\/span><span>It therefore gives the artwork on added value, where the plate is solid enough to stay immortal.\u00a0<\/span><span>This art represents the steadfastness against the factors of time.<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span><span>Website of Saad Romany Mikhaiel\u00a0<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span><a title=\"Facebook Saad Romany\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/micromosaicmaster\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook page of Saad Romany Mikhaiel<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He lives and works in Cairo and is known for his celebrity portraits: Saad Romany has immortalized Omar Sharif, Queen Elizabeth and Oprah Winfrey&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-people","post_format-post-format-video","post-item","post-even"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mused-mosaik.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mused-mosaik.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mused-mosaik.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mused-mosaik.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mused-mosaik.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mused-mosaik.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mused-mosaik.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mused-mosaik.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mused-mosaik.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}