Born in the wake of Egyptian Surrealism, Morsi stages dreamlike narratives in his canvases, in his youth full of saturated colours and with maturity increasingly evanescent. Metaphysical territories à la de Chirico, lunar characters, landscapes bathed in an aquatic light. From Egypt to Iraq, back to Egypt and then to New York where, at over ninety years of age, he is attracting belated attention, culminating in a recent exhibition at MoMA.
