Ibrahim El-Salahi
Subtitle: a Sudanese artist in Oxford
By: Lena Fritsch
Contributors: El Salahi, Ibrahim, 1930-
Publisher: Ashmolean Museum
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Oxford, United Kingdom
Language: eng
Number of pages: 72
ISBN-13: 9781910807231
Subjects: Exhibitions
Other titles: Sudanese artist in Oxford
Description: Ibrahim El-Salahi is a pioneer of African and Arab Modernism and one of the most influential figures in Sudanese art today. His works of art draw from a vivid imagination rooted in the traditions of his homeland, which he fuses with inventive forms of calligraphy, abstraction and a profound knowledge of art history. This exhibition is the first solo exhibition of El-Salahi's works in Oxford. It presents early works on paper never before shown, as well as the distinctive multi-panel paintings, such as the lively Flamenco Dancers, 2012. It also features new work, such as meditative drawings that El-Salahi has made on envelopes and medicine packets when suffering from physical pain. The exhibition sets El-Salahi's works into dialogue with specially selected ancient Sudanese objects from the Ashmolean's collection. Examples of pottery, decorated with images of the people, plants and animals of the region, were chosen together with the artist, underlining how, in El-Salahi's words, 'the past is linked with the present'.--Ashmolean website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references

Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford in 2017.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: From Omdurman to Oxford --; title: In Conversation with Ibrahim El-Salahi --; title: Ancient Sudan in the Ashmolean Museum  -- Liam McNamara; title: Ibrahim El-Salahi and the Sudanese Community in Oxford  -- Nagar Eltahir; title: Chronology -- Federica Gigante.