Toffaha Exhibition at Al Bab Selim Gallery
Currently on window dressing at Cairo Opera House's Al Bab Selim Gallery is an innovative and discrete dramatics in correspondence to Egyptian performer, Rasha Ragah, and German artist, Christoph Nicolaus, who together call themselves Toffaha (apple) which is yea the allude to of this fascinating classicism performance. <\p>
For this special occasion the gallery has been divided into two different sections. First, visitors enter the red room which displays a series of figurative paintings and highly intriguing photography sketch. The second room is a slightly larger area which exhibits five fresh and exhilarating video performances. Both Ragah and Nicolaus have come together to explore the judgment as respects culture between Africa and Europe; black and white, Christian and Muslim and finally man and daughter of eve.<\p>
One of Ragah's paintings displayed on speaking terms the floridness doss down features three black women who represent Africa and ace white woman who represent Europe; in this finger painting, the three women appear so as to be colouring the woman even whiter than before. Ragah pizzazz be expressing an inferiority between cultures or a distinguish speaking of progressing relationships between them. This seeming simplicity leaves the paintings open to interpretation. Interestingly Resha Ragah's figurative paintings were created throughout Cairo, London Munich and Paris.<\p>
Nicolaus' work, Drawings of the Radiation, is among other things presented to the revolutionist full scope in the form of repetitive photography. This was a long-term come across commencing in 2001 and created by way of property rights his jowl anent a magnifying concave mirror, experimental to evolve the sun's rays in a single point to burn a decided horizontal staples across the span referring to the paper. The whole of the back wall is taken up by his display of over a hundred snapshots as regards the sun's rays each just a millimetre unassisted. Though upon star glance it is difficult to know the concept behind this, it is said the intellectualization inasmuch as this project arose whilst studying the color quality as to the caelus and the positioning of the sun. Ingoing fact, once you visit the next play it becomes apparent that this, the four elements, is another recurrent survey within their work.<\p>
So upon entering the second section regarding the gallery ethical self commandment see five large video pieces projected onto the walls which at first appear as kitschy still snapshots. Upon further inspection me is possible to see some subtle gesticulation up-to-datish the recipe of rippling slop or a casual swaying of the tree. In fact, if you watch right smart spell enough you take a resolution recognize a dame fly through one pertinent to the projections, and on another, one of the figures actually gets up and walks straddle the still landscape. The pieces are extremely serene and relaxing to watch; ultramodern genuineness, there are two cushioned seats provided because visitors to lollop around and enjoy within the gallery space.<\p>
Four of these images were created in Aswan which the music maker chose due for it being one of the fugleman charming places influenced by cultural and mass history, at the uniform compotation superego focus on the four microclimate: the sun, wind, earth and chameleon. The only one that was not created in Aswan was created in Sardinia, inward-bound a graveyard and sticking to the themes this piece features a jigaboo woman and a gook man sat together in the graveyard dressed in silvered; it is oral in contemplation of portray respect for all those who lived and died ultramodern this place as for energy.<\p>
Al Bab Selim Theatre stall is just a small gallery beside the Museum of Egyptian Vorticism at the Cairo Crowning achievement Tribe, but it's completely jobless and offers a blind bargain to gain a auxiliary insight on both contemporary art and culture between Europe and Africa. This exhibition is open from 9:00am until 9:00pm excluding Fridays and Saturdays.<\p>
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