A Visionary Modernist: Ibrahim El-Salahi's First Major Exhibition in the UK Opens at Tate

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Sudanese artist Ibrahim El-Salahi poses for a photograph in front of his painting entitled
"Reborn Sounds of Childhood Dreams" at the Tate Modern in London on July 1, 2013

UNITED KINGDOM---Tate Modern presents the UK’s first major exhibition of Sudanese artist Ibrahim El-Salahi (born 1930). Bringing together 100 works from across more than five decades of his international career, this retrospective will highlight one of the most significant figures in African and Arab Modernism, and reveal his place in the context of a broader, global art history. The exhibition traces the artist’s personal journey, beginning in Sudanin the 1950s where he originally trained and practiced as an art teacher, as well as his time at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. After this period of self-discovery, El-Salahi returned to his homeland and continued his pioneering integration of traditional African, Arab and Islamic visual sources with European art movements.  [link]