Ubuntu Revisited III

If you feel the need to do something other than looking at a digital screen, then the Ubuntu Art Gallery is the place to be. The current gallery presented at the Ubuntu Art Gallery, located in Zamalek, Ubuntu Revisited III, features the most creative, daring, and hypnotizing works of art ever to be held at the gallery.

The gallery holds the works of many artists including Tarek El Sheikh an Egyptian artist known for his abstract works of various emotional forms of a clown caricature. El Shiekh’s clown is used to represent the underlying effect of the political and social tolls the country has on its people.

There is also the works of Eman Hussien, an Egyptian artist and architect, who also specializes in the abstract, but features a construction of shapes, colors and textures to form works that seem to pop from their canvas. Hussein layers and plays with landscapes in a manner so surprising that you can spend a whole day trying to untangle the beginning of the painting from the end.

Also being featured is Taha El Ghobashy, who shines with his structured illusion of a draped cloth that is surprisingly made of metal. The mesmerizing waves and shadowing of the “fabric” are enough to make anyone want to touch it, only to be surprised by its cold rigidity. The contrast alone holds enough poetry to let one marvel at the statue; itss beauty and color are just a bonus.

Artist Mohamed Khedr’s works are also included presenting many mesmerizing paintings that all play with shadows and planes in an abstract style that somehow seem so unbelievably real and heartfelt. His colors not only set the visual tone, but also the emotive.

The gallery is open until August 1^st and, with a whole new floor open, is definitely a must see, if not for just one of the works of art mentioned above. Let us just hope a year from now they have an Ubuntu Revisited IV so that we can look back and appreciate these well deserving artists once more.

BY Nour Ibrahim