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The “Treasures of Our Art Museums” encyclopedia refuses
to close its pages. The exhibition features the masterpieces of
European art to be the fifth part of this series of exhibitions,
which has started with the reopening of the Center of Arts in
2017, with artworks selected from eleven Egyptian museums that
included a rare collection of Egyptian art pioneers’ works and
the world’s art masterworks. This significant series has continued
by presenting Coptic and Islamic textile masterpieces, then
“Features of an Era” that displayed the paintings and sculptures
of Muhammad Ali’s dynasty and was an interesting historical
narration of a remarkable era in Egyptian modern history. Then
came the “Memory of the East” that featured a selection of
the Orientalists’ works; this exquisite selection shows Egypt’s
civilizational aspect from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.
These exhibitions have made the “Treasures of Our Museums”
series a significant cultural project attracting many artists, critics,
and connoisseurs, and eagerly awaited by all the audience to
enjoy the most remarkable and rare Egyptian and international
artworks hidden from view for many years and revived by an
artistic vision befitting the value and importance of these riches.
The statistic of the number of visitors to these exhibitions shows
that thousands of visitors have come from their inception until
now; this series has succeeded in attracting different segments of
society that may contribute to increasing the audience base and
promotion of plastic arts in Egypt.
This exhibition is an invitation to enjoy more than 100
masterpieces of European art selected from our Egyptian
museums’ acquisitions’ made by a group of the world’s artists
as Paul Gauguin, Claude Monet, Édouard Manet, Auguste
Renoir, Auguste Rodin, Edgar Degas, Gustave Courbet, Alfred
Sisley, Camille Pissarro, and many others, and showing the
aspects of the development of European plastic arts and its
multiple trends in different times.
Ehab El-Labban
Director of Center of Arts
186
to close its pages. The exhibition features the masterpieces of
European art to be the fifth part of this series of exhibitions,
which has started with the reopening of the Center of Arts in
2017, with artworks selected from eleven Egyptian museums that
included a rare collection of Egyptian art pioneers’ works and
the world’s art masterworks. This significant series has continued
by presenting Coptic and Islamic textile masterpieces, then
“Features of an Era” that displayed the paintings and sculptures
of Muhammad Ali’s dynasty and was an interesting historical
narration of a remarkable era in Egyptian modern history. Then
came the “Memory of the East” that featured a selection of
the Orientalists’ works; this exquisite selection shows Egypt’s
civilizational aspect from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.
These exhibitions have made the “Treasures of Our Museums”
series a significant cultural project attracting many artists, critics,
and connoisseurs, and eagerly awaited by all the audience to
enjoy the most remarkable and rare Egyptian and international
artworks hidden from view for many years and revived by an
artistic vision befitting the value and importance of these riches.
The statistic of the number of visitors to these exhibitions shows
that thousands of visitors have come from their inception until
now; this series has succeeded in attracting different segments of
society that may contribute to increasing the audience base and
promotion of plastic arts in Egypt.
This exhibition is an invitation to enjoy more than 100
masterpieces of European art selected from our Egyptian
museums’ acquisitions’ made by a group of the world’s artists
as Paul Gauguin, Claude Monet, Édouard Manet, Auguste
Renoir, Auguste Rodin, Edgar Degas, Gustave Courbet, Alfred
Sisley, Camille Pissarro, and many others, and showing the
aspects of the development of European plastic arts and its
multiple trends in different times.
Ehab El-Labban
Director of Center of Arts
186
