Gamal Meleka

"DINAMYC LAYERING"
Critic Text by Carmelo Strano
"Along his search, Gamal runs two roads. Two dialectical and synchronic positions. As synchronic, they give the sense of the Egyptian artist's total world. One dimension is related to the strong interest that Gamal has always had for the scenography (which he has studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera in Milan). He has made the most of this experience. He did it for the paintings and for installations. Mostly his paintings are poised between abstraction (tending to informal) and figuration and they are a sort of colour's performance, nothing else. I mean that the colour is never instrumental in relation to any assumption or message. Even when the figure shows marked contours, to it is not given any meaning. In these cases, the risk is to linger on it with complacency or decorative approach. That is how to establish a loosening of the colour's power in favour of a figurative story that, it soon becomes clear, to Gamal it doesn't interest. Therefore, the scenografic dimension is translated into the colour's performance. The other aspect of this scenografic dimension is given by the installations. Into these, Gamal Meleka obtains an interesting balance between expression modes a...