Our Anthology 2025 is as usual headlined by some of our marquee resident talents, as well as some of our familiar guest names and features a pair of new ones that we are thrilled to be unveiling to the art loving community here in Egypt for the very first time.
As we look back on our past season and into the blistering summer months that lie ahead, we are presenting the second edition of our Anthology series beginning June 1 and running throughout summer, with curatorial changes to the exhibition occurring throughout. Anthology 2025 is as usual headlined by some of our marquee resident talents, as well as some of our familiar guest names and features a pair of new ones that we are thrilled to be unveiling to the art loving community here in Egypt for the very first time. This collection sees an impressive assortment of mediums too, with the inclusion of various artforms spanning; sculpture, photography, fabric appliqué, mosaics, and various forms of painting.
Anthology 2025 not only represents the spirit of our previous season which was filled with inspirational wonder, but also signifies the promise of what the future holds, with whispers of what’s in store for our upcoming 2025/26 season. This year’s anthology gathers new works from established Safarkhan artists Ibrahim Khatab, Ahmed Saber, Karim Abd Elmalak, Katherine Bakhoum, Neama El Sanhoury, Omar Abdel Zaher and Tasneem El Meshad. That contingent is enjoined by the exploits of master calligraphist Mohamed Hassan, recently graduated Fayoum painter Mohammed Hussein, whose abstract-figurative work we have been avidly following and exhibiting, conceptual photographer Jerome Tisné and the Mosaics of Dahshur atelier, whose debut exhibition King’s Lake was undoubtedly the crown jewel in another enchanting season of art at Safarkhan.
We are especially proud to unveil two new foreign artists who although themselves far removed from Egypt, the intrinsic nature of their art abounds with the flavor and essence that Safarkhan is continually seeking out. Internationally established French artist Elric Miault’s paintings are akin to pictorial jewels, which, day after day, incessantly reveal new messages. The artist’s various techniques beautifully combine tradition and innovation by the use of gold, silver, copper, bronze and colors made out of minerals, pigments and lacquer with a pyrotechnical application to the canvas. Giving prominence to dream, imagination, impulses of the soul, of the heart and of the spirit, his paintings give the impression of reaching the divine, without ever unraveling the mysteries. Australian artist Carole Baines’ nature-inspired paintings oscillate between free-spirited abstract interpretations of seascapes, seasonal blooms, rugged terrain and tropical cacophonies of color, which she captures in a multi-layered and multimedia composition.
