Marie-Thérèse Abdel-Messih finds the still life, a genre long thought outmoded, alive and well
There is a difficulty in organising a still life exhibition, now that for many viewers still life is more or less a thing of the past. However, Mohammed (...)
Marie-Thérèse Abdel-Messih explores the concept of place
Abstraction is a common feature of pictorial Arab art. Calligraphy and design are particularly clear examples of this; and in the lithographs of Hussein Gebali (b. 1934), the latter acquires (...)
Marie-Thérèse Abdel-Messih explores the intermediary spaces afforded by Cairo's metro stations
The idea of staging art exhibitions in the Opera metro station flashed into Mohamed Khamis's head on his daily journey to the Opera Gallery he curates. By (...)
Marie-Therese Abdel-Messih explores 's multi-faceted picture making
The nature-culture interchange is conceived in terms of mother-daughter relationships in Zeinab El- Segeini's (b. 1930) paintings and what may appear a thematic concern actually (...)