Al-Kahila gallery is back with “Summer Colours”, a group show featuring among others Sayed Saadeddin, Ayyad Alnimer, Mohamed Rabie, Mohamed Dmarawey, Britt Botrous Ghali and Dina Targram.
Sayed Saad El Din was born in Qena, Upper Egypt, and his art brilliantly reflects Egyptian folklore. He studied at the Leonardo da Vinci Institute in Cairo and was the pupil of painter Sayed Abdel-Rassoul.
Saad El-Din explores abstract notions such as attachment and belonging, freedom and hope, and the potent desert atmosphere of Egypt in the magical light of the moon.
The present exhibition shows some of Saad El-Din’s best known and most distinctive paintings, combining contemporary life with folk themes in a smooth, dreamy melange where structure and line bespeak a Sufi sense of piety.
Saad El-Din’s works are on permanent display at, among many other institutions, the Museum of Modern Egyptian Art and the CIB bank.
The exhibition will remain on view until 30 July.
*A version of this article appears in print in the 16 July, 2020 edition of Al-Ahram Weekly
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