At the end of the nineteenth century, the French artist Edgar Degas (1834-1917) his saying “Art is not what we see, but what we make others see”, which refers to the transcendence of the art Its function as a means of entertainment is to influence the recipient’s feelings and change the way he sees things around him.
This saying constituted an essential point in contemplating the meaning of art and its roles, and the exhibition “You See Me..You Do Not See Me”, which opened on the second of this month in “You Do Not See Me,” recalls it.Eisel Gallery and CameraIn Cairo, and continues to the end with the participation of twelve male and female artists from Egypt.
The exhibition includes works that combine different media such as photography, sculpture and drawing, as well as between various methods of crafting the artwork, in an attempt to illuminate the distinction between the initial interpretation of what the eye sees, which differs from the truth, where the element in the painting is not identical with the element itself in reality, no matter how much the face similarity between them.
Among the participants is the artist Ali Salem with two red-painted sculptures. In the first, he depicts a dancing girl riding on Tho’s body, while the second work consists of seven separate pieces, each representing a female body in an abstract style and a different movement from the other, while the artist Heba Amin goes in her paintings that tend towards Abstraction to evoke memories, thoughts and observations of daily life that are intertwined in each painting.
The artist Walid Taher uses acrylic colors on canvas in the implementation of a number of paintings of different sizes, employing basic elements that are not absent from his painting that dates back to childish worlds that he derives from the details of daily life but uses them in a dramatic manner, as well as the random lines and symbols that are written on the walls, As a main ingredient, it adds more color effects.
From the series “The Walkers Asleep,” the artist chooses Asmaa Khoury, who deals with the impact of social media and technology on our relationships and daily lives, and how it has become controlling people and guiding them in a virtual world that steals life in seconds, minutes and hours…
Also participating in the exhibition are the artists: Asmaa Magdy, Hossam El-Sayed, Hanafi Mahmoud, Mohamed Bassiouni, Neven Hamza, Weam Al-Masry, Mohamed Tamman and Shaima Kamel.