In Visible Cities

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

In Visible Cities

etchings and drawings by Damon Kowarsky

May 8 to June 2 2011

Official opening Sunday May 8 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 mud brick to steel but as all serve similar functions there are similarities despite the otherwise enormous differences in language and culture.

The work in the exhibition In Visible Cities is based on Kowarsky's time in Cairo, visits to cities including Damascus, Chicago, 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.

David Hagger, 2011

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