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Artists' works converge at inova for a healing world view
By JAMES AUER
Journal Sentinel art critic
Monday, September 24, 2001
The healing power of art is very much on display in a new show at inova, the Institute of Visual Arts, at the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee.
In the show, which opened Friday, artists from nations as diverse as Egypt, Thailand, Denmark, the Netherlands, Benin and Lebanon have mounted a show that is strangely appropriate to America's hour of anguish.
The works -- predominantly large-scale installations and original video pieces -- deal with issues of blending and fusion, multicultural efforts at amity among people.
Mona Marzouk of Egypt, for example, is showing wall-filling murals that blend architectural elements from dynastic Egypt, ancient Greece and Rome, Catholic Italy and the Islamic world into large, skillfully outlined pastiches.
Marzouk, a Muslim, has titled this subtly hued mixture of styles and approaches "Reconfigured...