Cordoba Gallery, under the management of art critic Mohamed El-Gebali, is organizing the first exhibition of “Knox Art Gallery” in the gathering, on Friday, February 9, 2024, at exactly six in the evening, and will continue until February 29.
The exhibition includes the works of 18 visual artists: Ahmed Abdel Tawab, Asmaa Khoury, Islam Al-Rihani, Amina Salem, Anas Al-Alusi, Brett Boutros Ghali, Tamer Rajab, Tayseer Hamed, Khaled Sorour, Randa Fakhry, Sameh Ismail, Abdel-Wahab Abdel-Mohsen, and Alaa Abu. Al-Hamad, Omar Abdel-Zaher, Marwa Youssef, Mustafa Rahma, Naji Farid, and Wajih Yassi.
Engineer Sameh Amin and Engineer Muhammad Abbas, members of the Board of Directors of Knox Art Gallery, announced that the aim of inaugurating this free art space is to support the plastic movement and work to spread visual culture due to their belief in the importance of soft power and its impact on society.
Artist Ayman Lotfy, a member of the board of directors of “Knox Art Gallery” and the general coordinator of the exhibition, told “Al Bawaba News” that the opening exhibition, which is expected to be held at six in the evening on Friday, February 9, 2024, and will continue until the end of February 2024, will be organized by the Cordoba Gallery. To become the beginning of this free cultural artistic space, which we aspire to be a milestone in the dissemination of visual culture.
For his part, art critic Muhammad Al-Jabali, director of the Cordoba Gallery, expressed to Al-Bawaba News his happiness that Cordoba will be able to organize the first exhibition that will be held at the Knox Art Gallery, noting that the exhibition will include a selected group of artists representing generations, trends, and schools. Different types of art, which positively affects the level of the exhibition, and makes it very rich and distinguished, stressing that the invitation is general to all artists, those interested, and connoisseurs of fine art in general.
The idea of (Knox Art Gallery) is based on cooperation and coordination between different galleries in Egypt and the Arab world, where each gallery organizes an exhibition for a group of artists for a specific period, and once that period expires, another gallery takes over the organization, and thus this space becomes supportive of all visual artists.
