Art D’Égypte, with its CulturVator arm, launched Tuesday the Tale of Two Cities exhibition — a joint show hosted by Greece’s Acropolis Museum and Egypt’s Bibliotheca Alexandrina.
The Tale of Two Cities is the brainchild of Art D’Egypte, a cultural platform founded and managed by a French-Egyptian art consultant Nadine Abdel-Ghaffar.
The event is a “curatorial pairing” that seeks to rekindle Greece and Egypt’s profound historical and cultural relationship.
The works by Greek and Egyptian artists celebrate the distinct identities of both nations creating “a visual dialogue that explores the rich tapestry of shared heritage and the foundations of classical antiquity that both countries exemplify,” reads the press release.
The Tale of Two Cities features artists from Greece such as sculptor Costas Varotsos (born 1955), visual artist Danae Stratou (born 1964), and their Egyptian counterparts, including late painter Mahmoud Said (1897-1964), Alexandrian sculptors Omar Touson (born 1972), Said Badr (born 1965), and Cairo-born and raised interior architect and photographer Karim El-Hayawan.
The exhibition’s works are currently on display at the entrance foyer and gardens of the Acropolis Museum in Athens.
The exhibition will run until 16 July before moving on to Egypt, where the works will be displayed at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the coastal city of Alexandria between 17 and 31 October.
The exhibition is being held under the auspices of the Egyptian Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
It also has the backing of the Cavafy Archives, the Benaki Museum, the Onassis Library, and the Egyptian Embassy in Greece.
The Tale of Two Cities is one of the several endeavors motored by Art D’Egypte, a platform organizing contemporary art exhibitions that brings together regional and international artists to iconic historical and heritage sites across Egypt.
One such exhibition Forever Is Now has been held at the feet of the Great Pyramids of Giza throughout three editions.
Art D’Egypte with its founder Abdel-Ghaffar, has previously also curated exhibitions such as Eternal Light at the Egyptian Museum (2017); Nothing Vanishes, Everything Transforms at Manial Palace (2018); and Reimagined Narratives at four sites on El-Mu’iz Street in historic Cairo (2019).
