7th Cairo Fine Arts Forum to kick off on Sept. 1

CAIRO – 23 August 2018: The seventh Cairo Fine Arts Forum will kick off on September 1 at El Sawy Culture Wheel.

Organized by El Marsm Company, the forum will take place from Sept. 1 to Sept. 9, in which many Arab, Egyptian and foreign fine artists will participate, including fine artists Khalil Ahmed Sharaf and Abdel Muslim al-Morshdy.

The forum will receive the works of participants until Aug. 25, and the forum board will announce the final list of participating artworks and artists on Aug. 27. The works, which the forum will agree on, are oil painting, photography, sculpture, mosaic art, collage, calligraphy, painting, stained glass, ceramic art, textile, ornaments and jewelry.

In the same context, twenty graduates of the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cairo are getting ready to display their art works in a gallery titled “Show #1”, held from Aug. 12 to Sept. 11 in Picasso East Gallery in New Cairo as a way to support the Egyptian Fine Art movement and encourage young artists to display their works.

The young graduates are proudly going to portray what they have learned throughout their academic life through their artworks that reflect both realistic and expressive approaches.

Dr. Ashraf Reda, a fine arts professor and president of Arac for Art and Culture, explained that the graduates are walking along the foot path of their ancestors; the pioneers of modern fine art such as Yusif Kamel, Ragheb Ayad, Mohamed Hassan, Ahmad Sabri, Hamid Nada and others.

Oil paintings using different classical methods will be presented in the gallery, along with wall imaging, creative Mosaic works and artistic works performed on stained glass.