Egyptian Environment 2

Mohamed El Tahan is a visual artist, painter, ceramist and sculptor whose artistic philosophy is rooted in heritage and folklore. His body of work narrates a journey of continuity and stability and confirms Tahan’s cohesion with traditional principles and ethics.
Tahan’s visual and formative distinctiveness lies between Expressionism and Abstraction. He streamlines details in the scenery and spatial elements, while celebrating the vocabulary of Egyptian folk art. His landscapes reflect on the character of Egyptian land, climate and environment. This is often achieved through an interplay of rough and smooth surfaces as well as use of pastes and resins with whose help the artist creates spatial effects.
Many of Tahan’s pieces convey the atmosphere of Luxor and Aswan. Vaulted Nubian adobe houses with their traditional features—triangular openings that serve both as ventilation and ornament, simple geometric shapes, arched windows and doors—are a recurrent motif in his works. His rendering of people wearing traditional clothes, engaged in everyday tasks, playing musical instruments or dancing, reveals the beauty and simplicity of rural life.