Picasso East Gallery holds 2 exhibitions for Egypt’s Iskandar, Saad Eddin on Dec. 26

CAIRO – 23 December 2020: Picasso East Gallery, in the Fifth Settlement, is preparing to open two exhibitions for Munir Iskandar, entitled "From the Countryside" and Sayed Saad Eddin, entitled "Fantasia", in addition to an exhibition of rare birds for a group of photographers.

This will be held on December 26 at 3 p.m. The exhibition is scheduled to run until January 20, 2021.

Mounir Iskandar is an Egyptian artist, 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, including Hussein Bakkar, Hassan Fouad and Abdel Hady El-Gazzar. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in 1952.

Among his teachers was Youssef Kamel and Ahmed Sabry, who influenced the artists' tendency towards impressionist realism.

The artist was famous for his accurate depiction of life, especially in rural Egypt.

Munir Iskandar has been in the art scene for more than six decades now and has artworks around the world in the Princeton University art collection, in addition to a group in American University in Cairo.

During his artistic journey, the artist participated in many international exhibitions in the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Ukraine.

Munir Iskandar has participated in many local exhibitions over the years and has two pictures hanging in the Cairo Opera House.

The artist has a unique understanding of the wheels of society in Egypt and is thus able to depict them with a degree of nostalgic accuracy.

Moreover, Sayed Saad Eddin was born on January 24, 1944 in Qena, Egypt. He received a diploma from the Italian Institute of Leonardo Da Vinci in 1967. He was appointed professor of art there, but he is now a permanent professor. In addition, he is a member of the Fine Artists Syndicate.

He studied anatomy privately and practiced sculpture academically alongside painting when he joined the Leonardo Da Vinci Institute.

He was also influenced by the artist Sayed Abdel Rasoul, who was his teacher.

Saad Eddin took more than one method for artistic movements such as; Romanticism, Realism, Surrealism, and Abstract Expressionism.

His artwork draws on the roots of ancient Egyptian art and social reality while retaining contemporary aesthetic developments.

Always passionate about nature photography; his paintings acquired a distinct style and dramatic language that translates into a special sensitivity.

The artist is unique in his simple, pure paintings like the Renaissance painters. He also beautified the most important tourist areas in Egypt, such as the new Luxor Bridge on the Nile, Sharm El-Sheikh International Airport and the giant mosaic panels.

In addition, he was registered in the Cambridge International Encyclopedia as an outstanding Egyptian artist in 1990 and was chosen to be a commissioner of the Tinali International Sofia in 1998.