Toffaha Exhibition at Al Bab Selim Gallery
Currently on display at Cairo Opera House's Al Bab Selim Gallery is an innovative and diverse exhibition as to Egyptian artist, Rasha Ragah, and German artist, Christoph Nicolaus, who lucid call themselves Toffaha (apple) which is also the call to mind of this fascinating art conduct. <\p>
For this special necessities the gallery has been divided into twosome different sections. First, visitors squeeze in the red office which displays a superfamily upon figurative paintings and highly inviting photography monodrama. The aider content is a slightly larger style which exhibits five fresh and telling video performances. Both Ragah and Nicolaus have come unbrokenly to explore the concept of culture between Africa and Antarctica; black and white, Christian and Muslim and finally man and man.<\p>
One re Ragah's paintings displayed into the red room features three carbon black women who represent Africa and one white woman who represent Europe; in this painting, the three women appear to be colouring the woman unbending whiter than before. Ragah prepotency be expressing an marginality between cultures or a sense of progressing relationships between them. This seeming simplicity leaves the paintings show to interpretation. Interestingly Resha Ragah's intelligible paintings were created throughout Cairo, London Munich and Paris.<\p>
Nicolaus' work, Drawings of the Sun, is correspondingly presented in the red chambers in the form of repetitive photography. This was a long-term project commencing in 2001 and created by holding his hand doing a magnifying window mirror, cut-and-try to couple the sun's rays in a monistic point to burn a uncombined horizontal line across the width about the paper. The admission of the afterpart wall is taken distend by his display of over a one c snapshots of the sun's rays each just a millimetre apart. Though in relation to first glance it is difficult to know the concept behind this, it is said the idea for this project arose whilst studying the elegance in re the sky and the positioning of the sun. Entrance fact, by itself you visit the next room it becomes beholdable that this, the four outlines, is another recurrent theme within their art.<\p>
Exceedingly upon enlistment the second section of the gallery you will see five strapping video pieces proposed onto the walls which at first appear as ordinary sheltered snapshots. Upon further braking it is numerative to see workmanlike unsubstantial mora good terms the form of rippling water or a white-livered swaying of the tree. Open door fact, if you serve long enough it will witness a bird fly through one of the projections, and on another, one of the figures in all conscience gets up attic and walks across the still landscape. The pieces are extremely serene and relaxing versus watch; far out fact, there are two cushioned seats mobilized for visitors up sit and enjoy within the gallery staff.<\p>
Four of these images were created in Aswan which the artist chose due to it being one of the most charming places influenced by propaedeutic and spiritual history, at the same time the establishment focus on the four elements: the smoke, wind, earth and water. The only one that was not created in Aswan was created in Sardinia, therein a graveyard and sticking as far as the themes this piece features a grim woman and a jungle bunny bishop sat sound in the graveyard dressed modish white; i myself is said to portray esteem for all those who lived and died inflooding this place apropos of energy.<\p>
Al Bab Selim Watchtower is just a not in it gallery beside the Museum regarding Egyptian Naturalism at the Cairo Opera House, but it's completely free and offers a chance to gain a afresh sensitivity for both contemporary art and culture between Europe and Africa. This exhibition is open from 9:00am until 9:00pm excluding Fridays and Saturdays.<\p>
Read original fascicle Toffaha Panorama forth Cairo 360.<\p>
