NYAB Event - Ibrahim El-Salahi "From Time to Time"

Ibrahim El-Salahi "From Time to Time"

Skoto Gallery

This event has ended.

Skoto Gallery presents From Time to Time, an exhibition of drawings by the Sudanese-born artist Ibrahim El Salahi. This will be his first solo exhibition at the gallery. The reception is on Thursday, April 14th, 6-8pm. The artist will be present.

Ibrahim El Salahi is a world-renowned artist and pioneer in African modern art whose work is embedded with a resonance of personal truth and an artistic vision that is firmly rooted in the fissure between the natural world and the world of imagination. He draws on the rich literary and visual heritage of his homeland combined with a rigorous compositional organization that seek to balance spatial and structural concerns with an ability to reconcile intelligence and sensibility, knowledge and intuition as well as matter and spirit. The sensitive and exploratory lines in his work are highly characteristic and clearly recognizable, often using them as strokes in space to delineate, elaborate and circumscribe his images into endless organic f orms. He is aware of the creative process as a restless engagement with fleeting properties and strives to convey to the viewer the mental and physical engagement of the artist with his work. Closely viewed, his work evinces serene simplicity that is matured as thought and an invitation to contemplation.

[Image: Ibrahim El-Salahi "Visual Diary in Time-Waste Palace XXII" (1996) pen and ink on paper 7.5 x 7.5 in.]"