Mashrabia Gallery and the Australian Embassy in Cairo are pleased to invite you to attend

In Visible Cities
etchings and drawings by Damon Kowarsky

8 May to 2 June, 2011

Official opening
Sunday 8 May at 7 pm
by HE Ms Stephanie Shwabsky, Australian Ambassador to Egypt.

For the past eight years the theme of the city has featured prominently in the work of Damon Kowarsky.

For Kowarsky the city excites because of its collective and universal character and the great variety of its forms. These range from mudbrick to steel, but as all serve similar functions  there are similarities despite otherwise enormous differences in language and culture.

The work in In Visible Cities is based on Kowarsky's time in Cairo, visits to cities including Damascus, Chicago and New York, and his home town of Melbourne, Australia.

By bringing together images of these cities - old and new, familiar and completely unknown – Kowarsky shows both the links that bind these places and the distinctive details that mark them as their own.

Mashrabia Gallery of Contemporary Art

8 Champollion St
Downtown - Cairo
Egypt
Phone 02 25784494
Mobile 010 1704554
Open daily except Friday 11am to 8pm

   

Exhibition text by David Hagger

Local media responses

Nkrumah, G "Kowarsky's Cairo" Al-Ahram Weekly. May 26 2011

Sultan, Y "Medina ba'yn Kufarsky" Dar al Hayat. May 23 2011 [English translation]

de Groot, A. "Exhibition review" cairo360.com

Saeed, H "Inspiring, complicated metropolis" The Egyptian Gazette. May 20 2011

Hamdy, M "A tour in Damon Kowarsky's splendid 'Cities'" Daily News Egypt May 15 2011

Stuhr-Rommereim, H "World cities through the eyes of a traveller" Al Masry Al Youm May 11 2011

Boukabou, R " Damon Kowarsky’s ‘In Visible’ Cairo" www.rubytv.net May 7 2011