Picasso Art Gallery to hold 2 art exhibitions for Mounir Eskandar, Lina Osama on May 21

CAIRO – 19 May 2022: Picasso Art Gallery in the Fifth Settlement will launch Mounir Eskandar’s exhibition  "Full of Memories", and Lina Osama’s exhibition "Time Travelers", on May 21 at 6 pm.

Both exhibitions will run until June 11.

Eskandar’s exhibition depicts scenes from the Egyptian countryside, full of greenery and the serenity of nature. Eskandar was born in Cairo in 1926. He was a witness to a large number of Egyptian artists when the Egyptian art scene was at its peak. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in 1952.

Eskandar is famous for his accurate depiction of everyday life, especially in rural Egypt. He has been in the art scene for more than six decades now and has artworks all over the world in Princeton University's private art collection, in addition to the collection of the American University in Cairo. During his artistic career, Eskandar participated in many international exhibitions in the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Ukraine.

As for Lina Osama’s exhibition, it takes you in a nostalgic review of the past in search for a peaceful future with the ancient Egyptians and prehistoric creatures charged with memories of happy times and lessons of survival.

Osama participated in many private art exhibitions, including an exhibition at the headquarters of Al-Ayyam Al-Arabiya newspaper in April 2000, and the Egyptian Stories exhibition in Ratib Seddik Hall at Cairo Atelier in October 2010, among others.