Obsession, anxiety and over-caffeinated paranoia are the predominate tones in the compelling universe presented by artist and Egypt Independent reporter Ali Abdel Mohsen in “Razor-Sharp Teeth,” a solo show currently on view at Mashrabia Gallery. The series of ink drawings on cardboard flaps and flattened boxes makes a seductive case for the potential of contemporary [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Egypt’
New world…brave ?
Posted in Art as a matter of life, Vernissages, tagged apocalipse, art, Cairo, cityscapes, culture, Egypt, emotions, new world, towns, urban on February 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Egyptian film star sentenced for insulting Islam
Posted in Art as a matter of life, tagged Adel Imam, Arab Springs, art, autoritarian, Christian, Coptic, culture, democracy, Egypt, freddom, human right, Islam, liberal, liberty, Muslim, Naguib Sawiris on February 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The Arab world’s most famous comic actor, Adel Imam, has received a three-month jail sentence for insulting Islam in films and plays, a court document showed on Thursday. Imam, who has frequently poked fun at authorities and politicians of all colors during a 40-year career, has one month to appeal the sentence and will remain [...]
Bahgory’s timeless revolution
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Arab Springs, art, culture, culture art, Egypt, George Bahgory, Grand Prix d’Angoulême, Jean-Claude Denis, paint, Tahrir Square on February 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Everything about George Bahgory recalls a lost time. The renowned Egyptian painter and caricaturist (sometimes referred to as the “Grandaddy of Egyptian Caricature”) has cultivated for himself the classic image of a 19th century Parisian painter; mustachioed, with a pointy beard, and a painterly hat at a jaunty angle. Bahgory seems to lead the romantic [...]
‘Songs for Tahrir’: Music for and from liberation
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Arab Springs, art, contestazione, culture, democracy, Egypt, Eskendrella, human right, indignati, indignatos, Middle East, music, North Africa, Occupy Wall Street, peace, revolution, Samia Jaheen, socia right, Tahir on January 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Most times that Palestinian artist and musician Reem Kelani was in Tahrir Square, she took her tape recorder along. She weaves some of these recordings into her radio piece “Songs for Tahrir.” The focus is on song and music, and alongside the new musical sounds of a young generation — music such as the collective [...]
The ‘Venice and Egypt’ exhibit disappoints
Posted in Vernissages, tagged arte, BBC, Belzoni Battista Giovanni, Caffi, colonialism, cultura, culture, Edward Said, Egypt, Enrico Maria Dal Pozzolo, Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, Giorgione, Kultur, Maria Pia Pedani, Middle East, Paoletti Pietro, Rossella Dorigo, Tiepolo, Tintoretto, Venedig, Venezia, Venice, Venice and Egypt on January 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
In the tourist Mecca of Saint Mark’s Square in Venice, the Doge’s Palace is currently holding an exhibition called “Venice and Egypt.” The publicity material on the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia website entices the visitor with “the thousand-year old relationship between Venice and Egypt narrated for the first time ever.” Viewers will experience “a [...]
G8 ,3G, BRICS,CIVETS,N11,E7 a new world monitor by Prosumerzen
Posted in Art as a matter of life, tagged 3G, art, Bangladesh, Brazil, BRICS, Canada, China, CIVETS, culture, design, design fashion life style, Dubai, E7, economy, Egypt, fashion, Fernand Braduel, France, G8, Germany, humanity, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jules Verne, justice, Korea KSA, liafesty, material, München, Mexico, Mongolia, Montecarlo, Munich, N11, New York, Nigeria, Pakistan, Phileas Frogg, Philippines, politics, race, religion, revolution, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, spiritual, Sri Lanka, t, Taiwan, Tokyo, Turkey, UK, USA, Vietnam, world order on December 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Prosumerzen starts today a new editorial format. Inspired by Fernand Braduel´s vision,(I), about “economy- world” , ( something more complex and sophisticated than the “simple” world economy), and each day we focus on a selected number of Countries that belong to one of them. We approach it under different dimension from geopolitics to economy but [...]
Abstract painting reflects the city by Helen Stuhr-Rommereim
Posted in Vernissages, tagged Al-Masry Al-Youm, Cairo, city, cityscapes, contemporary art, Damon Kowarsky, Egypt, Mashrabia Gallery, Qarm Qart, town, urban, urban culture, Yorgos Papageorgiou on November 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
From Damon Kowarsky’s quiet charcoal cityscapes, to Qarm Qart’s psychedelic depictions of Cairo street scenes, recent exhibitions at Mashrabia Gallery have highlighted the various ways Cairo inspires visiting or transplanted artists. Mashrabia’s latest offering, a collection of paintings by Greek artist Yorgos Papageorgiou, is no exception. Through a selection of 26 abstract paintings on paper, [...]
