Egyptian Sculptor & Performance Artist Stages “Baptism in Black"

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By Jason Frydman

"Baptism in Black"sculpture-and-performance by Nader Sadek

Nader Sadek’s 2011 sculpture-and-performance piece “Baptism in Black” staged a Satanic ritual that desecrated the artist’s uniquely fabricated bust of Hosni Mubarak. Performed in the politically charged White Tower in Thessaloniki, Greece, at the end of September, Sadek’s piece channeled and connected the unrest fueling both Arab revolutions and Eurozone crises. “Baptism in Black” links the Egyptian government’s persecution of heavy metal music and culture to the 2011 uprising that overthrew Mubarak’s 30-year dictatorship. Nader Sadek is a Cairo-born multimedia artist based in New York who explores the intersectino of heavy metal culture with political discourse. [link]