Ahmad El-Ganayni, painter and poet
 


 
 

El Ganayni's paintings often erupt into a symphony of colors, allusively evoking human figures - often women.
Here, in superimposed layers, the "fleshy" sensual dark female body in the imaginary foreground
contrasts with a silhouette that reminds us of sculptures by Giacometti.
Space exists in such paintings - a dreamlike space, devoid of all central perspective. Everything that is geometric or abstract is completely absent. But so is every temptation to turn to naturalism, to the world as we are taught by conventions to "see" it while failing to truly see...

 


 

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