8 - 14 March 2001
Issue No.524
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Al-Ahram Weekly On-line 8 - 14 March 2001 Issue No.524 |
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Around the galleries
Among the most recent set of exhibitions at the Centre of Art, Zamalek, was the latest offering of painter Nazli Madkour who has consistently developed from one exhibition to the next. A continual shifting of emphasis -- from figurative to abstract, from landscape to portrait -- has not prevented Madkour from pursuing an integrated long-term project. Her exhibitions bear testimony to the notion that an artist can maintain a single course of development even as she dabbles in an ever-changing palette, plays with different styles and depicts a new subject each time, the one constant facet of Madkour's work being the painter's essentially romantic sensibility.
In this, her latest exhibition, judging as much by the title she has chosen, Rites of Passage, as by the paintings themselves, Madkour is at a crossroads in her life journey. Perhaps this is the state in which the artist suffers the most, capturing her pain with stunning profundity. The menacing vistas -- with or without the barest hint of landscape -- are grainy and indistinct. This signals, according to the artist herself, a new beginning and a newfound ability to explore both inner and external worlds.
Reviewed by Nagwa El-Ashri
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