Simply entitled "Buildings" this is Gharib 's second exhibition at Mashrabia and those who caught his work last time will be able to trace a definite and fascinating path Even before graduating from the College of Arts in 1995, Gharib had experimented extensively with landscape and since then most of his work has dwelt on his own particular slant on that form. His imagination is drawn to the less traditional landscape of construction: buildings, their relationship to nature, to one another and to the people who inhabit them.
''For most people, ''he says, ''landscape is about open spaces. perhaps with figures with cars, with buildings. For me landscape is about entering inside this; it's about the separation of space that make up any construction.'' Earlier depictions of scenery around his native Mid-Delta town of Kafr El Sheikh began increasingly to home in an urban development. Similarly, paintings of the landscape around Luxor saw him focusing on the nature of buildings: the inner versus the outer-even descending to look at ultimate constructional inner space in the form of tombs.