The historic Aisha Fahmy Palace in Zamalek, known as Mogamaa Al-Fonoon or The Complex Palace of Arts, was re-opened a couple of days ago after years of renovations. Restoration work on the palace started in 2005, and a partial reopening of the complex was scheduled for 2015, but was delayed repeatedly. In addition to the architectural and artistic treasures it houses, the palace will host art exhibitions managed by the Visual Arts Department at Ministry of Culture. Aisha Fahmy opens with an exhibition entitled “Treasures of Our Art Museums,” which showcases a special national collection of artworks by Egypt's leading artists among them leading artist Tahiya Halim. The late great plastic artist Tahia Halim is the leading artist who turned the brush in her hand into a weapon she once fought with for her personal and social independence and for simple, ordinary people of Egypt. The most important features of her work were the spontaneity of expression and the delicacy of lines. Her paintings are distinct and clear; as the dialogue in her works is good connecting brilliantly between lines, colours and spaces. But the dialogue is also connected between the shadow and the light with a high degree of compatibility between these elements. She has gained global fame for these lines. Halim has become a symbol of fine art in Egypt and the Arab world. Halim's paintings are characterized by the dynamics of the things inside it which is the fun of colouring specifically in black away from the concept of sadness and pessimism but close to the concept of perfection, and the red colour for her is the blessed colour of the Nile, and the colours of the hard workers and gold colour standing for richness which she wisely spread over her paintings while the green colour she so loved represents life and which she used in many of her paintings mixed with white to vary degrees.
