19 January - 23 February 2020
Cairo’s buildings live again the splendour of the past with images of both national and international cinema stars from the 40s up to the 70s. The dust-covered cement of the walls blends with the warm colours once used for advertisements, touching on a well-known popular culture iconography. This way Cairo, like an imaginary museum, turns into a giant billboard that highlights its beauty and majesty. Qarm Qart in his fifth solo exhibition at Mashrabia Gallery of Contemporary Art "Imaginary Graffiti Manifesto", strolls down the streets of Downtown and portrays a fictional Cairo, more beautiful and magical than it already is. This exhibition is curated by Flavia Malusardi.
Qarm Qart aka Carmine Cartolano was born in 1972 in Buonabitacolo (Salerno). He studied Arabic and Persian at Istituto Universitario Orientale in Naples. He has been living in Cairo since 1999 where he teaches Italian as a foreign language. Qarm Qart is proud to consider himself a Cairene. Over the years, his artwork has addressed, by means of unconventional collages, digital pictures, consumer objects, toys, household items and Egyptian popular icons, issues that impact daily on the lives of all Egyptians, as well as inner mental and emotional mazes that people carry within them. In his last body of work, Qarm Qart enacts a profound reading of Naguib Mahfouz. The Cairo trilogy is the starting points for the images Qart stitches onto the tarboush, which serves as the canvas for his imagined world. Qart’s Qarboush - creative works on the tarboush - offers multiple layers of meaning in the interpretation of Egyptian past and presents. The tarboush as male headgear is now an historical relic. But what about its symbolic force of national and patriarchal privilege? The artist makes us ponder whether this privilege has gone with the tarboush itself as he ushers us into disquieting yet intriguing spaces.
Qarm Qart aka Carmine Cartolano was born in 1972 in Buonabitacolo (Salerno). He studied Arabic and Persian at Istituto Universitario Orientale in Naples. He has been living in Cairo since 1999 where he teaches Italian as a foreign language. Qarm Qart is proud to consider himself a Cairene. Over the years, his artwork has addressed, by means of unconventional collages, digital pictures, consumer objects, toys, household items and Egyptian popular icons, issues that impact daily on the lives of all Egyptians, as well as inner mental and emotional mazes that people carry within them. In his last body of work, Qarm Qart enacts a profound reading of Naguib Mahfouz. The Cairo trilogy is the starting points for the images Qart stitches onto the tarboush, which serves as the canvas for his imagined world. Qart’s Qarboush - creative works on the tarboush - offers multiple layers of meaning in the interpretation of Egyptian past and presents. The tarboush as male headgear is now an historical relic. But what about its symbolic force of national and patriarchal privilege? The artist makes us ponder whether this privilege has gone with the tarboush itself as he ushers us into disquieting yet intriguing spaces.
"مانيفستو لجرافيتي إفتراضي"
قرم قرت
١٩ يناير - ٢٣ فبراير ٢٠٢٠
تُحيي مباني القاهرة روعة الماضي مرة أخرى بصور لنجوم سينما مصريين وعالميين، من أربعينيات حتى سبعينيات القرن الماضي، حيث يمتزج الأسمنت المغطى بالأتربة مع الألوان الدافئة التي كانت تستخدم في الإعلانات على الجدران بالماضي، متأثراً برموز الثقافة الشعبية المعروفة، فتتحول القاهرة الى لوحة إعلانية ضخمة، تُسلط الضوء على جمالها وجلالها، وكأنها متحفاً خيالياً
يتجول الفنان قارم قارت من خلال معرضه في قاعة مشربية للفن المعاصر "مانيفيستو لجرافيتي افتراضي" في شوارع وسط المدينة، ويصور قاهرة إفتراضية خرى، أكثر جمالاً وسحراً، مما هي عليه بالفعل.
يتجول الفنان قارم قارت من خلال معرضه في قاعة مشربية للفن المعاصر "مانيفيستو لجرافيتي افتراضي" في شوارع وسط المدينة، ويصور قاهرة إفتراضية خرى، أكثر جمالاً وسحراً، مما هي عليه بالفعل.
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