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ART & CULTURE
By: AshrafReda
A Hot Art Season
Not to Be Missed..
H
otweather canbe
soothedwithafine
tasteof art,whichcan
definitelybe foundall
around thepalace this
season. Thegalleriesof Zamalek
exhibit veryuniquemasterpieces
this summer,with several
distinctivelycuratedmixturesof
pioneer artistswithcontemporary
andyoung talents.
For a start, twomajor yearly
exhibitions takeplace this
summer; the “General Exhibition”
at ThePalaceofArts, next to
CairoOperaHouse, and “History
Rewritten” atAl AhramMuseum
Hall,withworksbyKhaledHafez,
AshrafReda, AhmedGaafary,
HadyBoray,MahmoudObaidi,
NasrWarour,NasrAl Aswadi,
SamarHussain, ShurooqAminand
VyacheslavUseinov.
SafarkhanGalleryexhibitsworks
of pioneersSalahAbdel Kerim
andEngi Aflatounalongwith
contemporaryartistsHindEl
Falafly, SabahNaeim, KarimAbdel
Malak,MohamedMonaiseer, Sarkis
andAlfons.
ZamalekArtGalleryalso shows
amixtureofmasterpiecesby
pioneersGazbiaSirry, Farghaly
Abdel Hafiz,MostafaAbdelMoaty,
RababNemr andGamal El Seginy,
whichareall bignames inEgypt’s
fineart scene, accompaniedby
youngandcontemporaryartists
GeorgeFikry, Adel Tharwat, Kamal
El Fikky,MohamedEl Fayoumy,
Carol Hemsy, Sameh Ismail,Wael
Darwish,OmniaDemerdashand
YasmineEl Hazik.
Movingon toall-contemporary
exhibitions, PicassoArtGallery
has auniquecollectionentitled
“ContemporaryHeritage”,
including theworksofHassan
Museumof FineArt inCairo
FineArtsMuseumHall
