The Sector of Fine Arts opened the exhibition of the treasures of our museums 4 "Memory of the East" at the Arts Complex, in the Aisha Fahmy Palace in Zamalek, in the presence of Dr. Enas Abdel Dayem, Minister of Culture, Dr. Khaled Sorour, head of the Fine Arts Sector, artist Dalia Mostafa, director of art centers, and artist Ehab El-Laban, director of the Complex Arts and general facilitator of the exhibition.
The Memory of the East exhibition includes a large group of international artists such as (Fatima painting by Dominique Anger, motherhood painting by Baby Martin, Nile painting by Eugene Frommantin, shadow game board by Tudor Frere, popular wedding painting by Narcissus Bercheire, and a painting of an Arab tribal leader for Eugene Delacroix) and many others.
It is noteworthy that the plastic arts sector included three exhibitions "from the treasures of the treasures of our museums 1, the first came accompanying the opening of Aisha Fahmy Palace in Zamalek, and the exhibition included a special group of the most prominent international art holdings, for Egyptian pioneers in a plastic display that represents an opportunity for artists, critics and the public to learn about this artistic heritage The huge museums in Egypt.
As for the exhibition of the treasures of our museums 2, "it included a rare collection of the masterpieces of the Coptic and Islamic fabric from the possessions of the Museum of the Gezira. It is presented for the first time and represents various historical stages that confirm the ability of the Egyptian civilization to absorb the foreign art and to ensure its acquisition and even its debate.
As for the exhibition of the treasures of our museums 3, "features of the era" that included the holdings of the family of "Muhammad Ali", the stage that has occupied many historians locally and internationally, due to the great events that it witnessed, passed through Egypt during nearly a century and a half of time, and during which four Patterns of systems, starting with the state system, through the Khedive and the Sultanate, and ending with the kingdom that ended the period with its end.
It is worth noting that the exhibitions of the treasures of our museums come to restore the spirit of our museum treasures and recall its value in the world in light of what our most important art museums suffer from closure for long periods that exceeded a quarter of a century, and this certainly caused the emergence of an entire generation who could not see these unique masterpieces of artistic possessions Priceless.
Tue, Dec. 24, 2019
