Instrument IV, 1994
Born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1959, after training at the École des Beaux-Arts, Geneva, Dana set up his first studio in 1979.
Dana’s first exhibition in 1982 featured twenty mechanical and acoustic sculptures made out of iron. He continued with this approach until 1996, when a six-month stay in Egypt, his birthplace, inspired him to create simpler, hieratic shapes cast in bronze. Dana says: ‘The six months I spent in Egypt really did give me a new lease of life and helped me to set both my mind and my hands-free... It was then that I abandoned iron in favour of plaster. I worked under an immense sky on the edge of the desert... the frantic, bustling rhythm of the West gave way to a slower Eastern way of life...’
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