Abdul Rahman Habib wrote
Monday, March 13, 2023 10:00 AM
The creation of Magdi Yacoub’s statue was not for the artist Nathan Doss Confined to one stage, it went through multiple stages, which initially included the artist working on the statue for three days on a copy of clay to carve the first features of the statue.
After that, the statue took its second stage, represented by the fiber version of the statue. It was created by the artist Nathan Doss, so that the statue might travel to Asaum, where the statue is the final resting place.
These stages permeated the artist’s work using the point machine, which divides the topography of the statue into specific points with a certain spacing, in order to help carve the statue in precise proportions.
Then came the stage of creating the statue using Aswan red granite materials, and the artist created it in the manner of an obelisk, as it is two and a half meters high.
The artist, Nathan Doss, said in previous statements for the seventh day, that the owner of the idea of the statue of Magdi Yacoub, is the governor of Aswan, Major General Ashraf Attia, who asked him to make a statue of the famous cardiologist, explaining that the idea began in the atelier he owns in Cairo, starting with initial sketches and making The mold of the statue in Cairo before traveling to Aswan to attend the activities of the Aswan Symposium in its twenty-seventh session.
Nathan Doss explained, during exclusive statements to “The Seventh Day”, that the story began when the governor of Aswan, Major General Ashraf Attia, asked him for a statue of the famous cardiologist Magdy Yaqoub, which the artist turned on the ground into an expensive artistic sculpture for exploration and discovery.