Transient Chronicles
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17TH, 6:00PM – MARCH 12TH, 2013
Mai Refky is considered to be one of the best figurative painters of the contemporary regional scene. Materializing her characters into abstract, yet fully formed, embodied beings, do her subjects spring from the façade, leaving us with an incredible array of movement, juxtaposed against magnificent contrasts of black and white, up against fluorescent tones, peasant patterning and decorative geometric ornamentations all inspired by her personal history. Her canvases are her diaries, and the time span it took to realize her New Works, date from 2011 – 2013.
From the new collection, have we come to realize the placement of older works done in 2008; The Orange Pink Series, with works in 2010; The Musician Series – only to offer an incredible array of free-flow movements and sounds from other periodical genres. Her negative and positive spaces overlap without end, completing this collective with a range and variety of tonal and instrumental colors, desired to objectify the art of unmethodical chronicling.
About the Artist: Mai Refky is an independent artist, lives and works in Cairo, Egypt. Graduate of the faculty of Fine Arts, Painting department, Cairo 1998, she studied Islamic Art and Architecture at the American University in Cairo 1999-2000. Since 1998, her work has been presented in five solo shows as well as exhibitions in Egypt, Germany, Italy, Spain, Austria, Croatia, Turkey, Qatar, United Arab Emirates and Lebanon. Her paintings have been acquired by The Museum of Egyptian Modern Art in Cairo, The Contemporary Art Museum of the City of Vukovar in Croatia, public and private collections in Egypt and abroad.
مي رفقي فنانة مستقلة من القاهرة. تخرجت من كلية الفنون الجميلة، قسم التصوير بالقاهرة في 1998، و درست العمارة و الفن الإسلامي في الجامعة الأميركية بالقاهرة في 1999-2000. منذ عام 1998، قدمت اعمالها في خمس معارض فردية وكذلك عرضت في مصر و ألمانيا و ايطاليا و اسبانيا و النمسا و كرواتيا و تركيا و قطر و الامارات العربية المتحدة و لبنان. إقتنيَ اعمال الفنانة لمتحف الفن المصرى الحديث بالقاهرة، و متحف الفن المعاصر لمدينة فوكوفار في كرواتيا و مجموعات عامة و خاصة في مصر والخارج .
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