MEDHAT SHAFIK - Home Page

"Shafik’s enjoyment consist in wandering in yellow deserts, moving from one old market to another, listening to the sounds of different places, looking for the red glow in the sands and in the shadow for the light that slides over the world. Simple, highly colourful pleasures, like visions of well-begin, thought of as physical and mental happiness. This painter, in cultural ‘disguise’ and westernized, has found his paradise in re-appropriating the obstinate, tenacious and permanent base of his roots so essential to him; as beyond cultural and pictorial nomadism Shafik’s world establishes an essential and definitive continuity."