Dario Basso blends Arab and Spanish art

Part modern art, part homage to Arab creativity, Spanish painter Dario Basso’s work is born from a sentimentalized history between Spain and the Arab world. Materially, his exhibit at the Egyptian Museum of Modern Art stands as 20 kheimas, traditional decorative cloth hung as walls in the Arab world for funerals and festivals, which the artist has painted directly upon, in primitive strokes.Basso comes to Cairo this week as a guest of the Spanish Embassy. His exhibition titled “Algoritmi Dixit”...