Ibrahim El-Salahi, born in 1930 in Omdurman, Sudan, is a painter regarded as the leading figure of the Khartoum School and a pioneer of African modernism. His work fuses Islamic calligraphy with modern painting technique, part of what critics call the Hurufiyya movement, drawing together Islamic, African, Arab and Western artistic traditions into a distinctly Sudanese visual language. He received the Prince Claus Award in 2001, and in 2013 Tate Modern gave him its first retrospective ever devoted to an African artist.
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He is one of the foremost visual artists of the Khartoum School, considered part of African Modernism and the pan-Arabic Hurufiyya art movement, that combined traditional forms of Islamic calligraphy with contemporary artworks.
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