The Arab Atelier for Culture and Arts, the Dhi Gallery in Mohandessin, will inaugurate on Saturday evening, September 7, the first museum of contemporary Arab art, for a group of Egyptian and Arab visual artists.
Art critic Hisham Qandil, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Arab Atelier for Culture and Arts, said that the museum provides an opportunity for researchers and students of contemporary Arab art, in addition to educating visitors, through publications and lectures by senior critics and researchers, with an interest in children, to be a source of their creativity, and a means of learning about the Arab visual heritage over the years.
Qandil pointed out that "in addition to the importance of the museum as one of the most important tourist attractions, it includes sculptural, photographic, and ceramic graphic works, most notably the works of pioneers from the thirties, forties, fifties, sixties, and seventies. The most important works displayed in the museum are by artists Mahmoud Mukhtar, Ragheb Ayad, Hussein Mohamed Youssef, Youssef Kamel, Anwar Abdel-Moula, Adam Hanin, Sedki El-Gabakhangi, Abdel-Rahman El-Nashar, Santis, Abdel-Aziz Darwish, Engy Aflaton, Gazebia Serry, Zakaria El-Khanani, Aida Abdel-Karim, El-Sayed Abdel-Rasoul, Kamal Khalifa, Hosni El-Banani, Joakina Shehdi, Gamal Kamel, Gamal Qutb, Wadih Shenouda, Hussein Youssef Amin, Abu El-Fath Shady, El-Hussein Fawzy, Khamis Shehata, Zakaria El-Zeini, Mohamed Riad Saeed, Ali Desouky, Saad El-Gergawy, Saleh Reda, Naji Shaker, Abdel-Badie Abdel-Hay, Kamal Khalifa, Ezzat Ibrahim, Hassan Mohamed Hassan, and Mustafa Metwally, Margoufion, Kamal Obeid, Mohamed Sabry, Anton Hanna, Naima El-Shishini, Salma Abdel Aziz, Adly Rizk Allah, Shaker El-Madaawy, Amin Rayan, Mustafa Hussein, Ahmed Fouad Selim, Kamel Ghandar, Hussein El-Gebali, Tharwat Rouhi, Bikar, Mansour Farag, Nabil Darwish, Gamal El-Sejiny, Ahmed Amin Asem, Abdel Moneim Motawea, Samir Rafeh, Mahmoud Abu El-Magd, Sabry Abdel Ghani, Kawkab El-Assal, Mustafa Ahmed, Omar El-Najdi, Atiyat El-Sayed, Kamal Yaknour, Rafat Ahmed, Faiza Mahmoud, Hind Shalaby, Toghan, El-Desouky Fahmy, Mamdouh Ammar, Ahmed Gad, Mamoun El-Sheikh, Badawy Saafan, Mahmoud Helmy, Khalaf Taie, Mohamed Salima, and Fathy Ahmed. In addition to some works by contemporary artists such as Ahmed Nawar, Zeinab El-Sejiny, Salah Anani, Helmy El-Touni, Mustafa El-Feki, Mahmoud Abou El-Ezm Diab, Reda Abdel Salam, Abdel Aziz Saab, George Bahgory, Esmat Dawstashi, Mohamed Abla, Adel El-Siwi, Mohamed Mandour, Tarek El-Komi, Hassan Kamel, Mohamed El-Fayoumi, Tarek Zabady, Saeed Badr, and Mohamed El-Fayoumi. Among the Arab artists are Saadi Al Kaabi, Mahmoud Al Obeidi, Sadiq Taama, Rabie Al Akhras and Asaad Arabi from Iraq and Syria, Hussein Madi and Imran Al Qaisi from Lebanon, Youssef Ahmed from Qatar, Rashid Diab, Sheikh Idris, Awad Abu Salah, Omar Sabir and Al Tayeb Al Khudairy from Sudan, works by Bakr Sheikhon, Taha Al Sabban, Abdulrahman Al Sulaiman, Abdullah Hamas, Abdullah Nawawi, Fahd Al Hujailan, Hashem Sultan, Mohammed Al Ghamdi and Ayman Youssef from Saudi Arabia, Mohammed Al Shahidi from Morocco, Naja Mahdawi from Tunisia, and Abdullah Al Otaibi from Kuwait, with the addition of works by other possible artists. Qandil noted that the museum will be a free tourist attraction for all Egyptian, Arab and international audiences, pointing out that the Dhi Foundation will provide unlimited support to make it appear in the best image befitting all of Egypt.
