In a room no larger than 20 sq. metres, graffiti loses its populist garb as street art for all to see in bright sunlight and becomes prisoner of private showrooms, seen only by patrons under artificial lighting.
The first graffito to make the trip from the street to an art gallery was a mural commemorating the fourth anniversary of the drowning of Hisham Rezk, a former student at the Faculty of Art. It was exhibited in July at the Mashrabia Gallery of Contemporary Art in Cairo as part of an exhibition titled “Trader of Simplicity.”
The mural was meant to be a tribute to the disappeared by Rezk’s friends but it seems their brushes went out of control and tackled political and social aspects.
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