“At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is in no way inferior to the smell of the sea, bitter where it borders on taste, and more honeysweet where you feel it touching the first…

exhibition at Picasso Gallery Zamalek Cairo, February 2022 “That wasn’t a true dream, but an ancient organic memory millions of years old. The innate releasing mechanisms laid down in your cytoplasm have been awakened. The expanding sun and rising temperatures are driving you back down to the spinal levels into…

“That wasn’t a true dream, but an ancient organic memory millions of years old. The innate releasing mechanisms laid down in your cytoplasm have been awakened. The expanding sun and rising temperatures are driving you back down to the spinal levels into the drowned seas of the lowest layers of…

It starts with a letter or a word, and moves onward from there. From one letter’s curve, whole worlds are created.

British Egyptian artist Nazir Tanbouli ushered in 2021 with a solo show of paintings at Cairo’s Picasso gallery. Since last summer, while the majority of us languished in corona anxiety, Tanbouli sealed himself in the studio with a lot of large blank canvases and began to imagine his new collection…

Introduction: Currently based in Cairo, exploring the city’s contemporary art scene. Syrian-born Cairo-based artist Souad Mardam Bey’s exhibition is titled “I Lost the Key” and the word “key” is evocative in the current times — a key in music, a key to a door (the door to where?) — and…

Passive Constructions, an exhibition by Islam Zaher Currently based in Cairo, Egypt and exploring Cairo’s contemporary art scene. Although painting and sculpture are normally spoken about as different art media, they intersect in fascinating ways. One thinks for example of Giorgio de Chirico’s silent piazzas with their haunting monuments. Or the relationship between Henry Moore’s remarkable drawings of the London Tube during the Blitz in relation to his…

Artists and filmmakers depict pre-history: the art of imagining the unimaginably real part of the series ‘A History of the World in 16 paintings, and the films they inspired’ Here I feature Thomas Cole’s The Savage State Gillian McIver Thomas Cole’s The Savage State, The Clan of the Cave Bear and Quest for Fire How to artists and filmmakers depict pre-history? You might be surprised…