Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Talking Art Series explores works of Ibrahim El-Salahi

The talk, entitled 'Pioneering Modernism: Ibrahim El-Salahi', will be led by Professor Salah Hassan, Goldwin Smith Professor of African and African Diaspora Art History and Visual Culture in Africana Studies and Research Centre, and Department of History of Art and Visual Studies, and Director of the Institute for Comparative Modernities, ICM, Cornell University, and will be held at the Louvre Abu Dhabi.

Born in Omdurman, Sudan in 1930, Ibrahim El-Salahi is one of the forefathers of Modern art in Sudan and a key contributor to African Modernism. His training in Sudan and the United Kingdom, coupled with studies and travel abroad, provided a transcultural framework for the development of his distinctive oeuvre, which integrates geometries, Islamic motifs, calligraphic forms, and imagery drawn from both African and Western art as evidenced by Untitled (1964), a work in the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi collection currently on view in Louvre Abu Dhabi collection galleries

 

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