Ahmed Shibrain

Ahmed Shibrain, also known as Ahmad Mohammad Shibrain (Arabic: احمد محمد شبرين, 1931 – 23 March 2017) was a Sudanese Modernist painter and Dean of the College of Fine and Applied Art in Khartoum.

Life and artistic career

Shibrain was born in 1931 in Berber, Sudan.[1] He studied Fine Arts at the School of Design at the Khartoum Technical Institute (KTI) and at the Central School of Art and Design in London, England. In 1972, he was Commissioner for Art in the Sudanese Ministry of Youth and later also Secretary of Culture in the Ministry of Culture and Information. In 1975, he became dean of the College of Fine and Applied Art at the Sudan University of Science and Technology.[2][1]

Along with Ibrahim El-Salahi, Shibrain is considered one of the leading representatives of the art movement called School of Khartoum that combined Islamic, African and Western artistic traditions.[3] Both artists are also representatives of the so-called hurufiyya-movement (derived from the Arabic word for letter), as they developed contemporary pictorial representation from traditional Arabic calligraphy.[4] Shibrain's large-format calligraphy, in which the words of Islamic texts are interpreted as independent ornaments and images, attracted international attention.[5][6]

Among other collections, his works are represented in the collections of the Barjeel Art Foundation in the United Arab Emirates and of the National Archives (formerly Harmon Foundation) in Washington, D.C.[7]

Shibrain died in Khartoum on 23 March 2017, aged 82.[1]

Major exhibitions

References
  1. "Ahmed Shibrain's Art: A Marrying Of Arab And African Cultures| Sudanow Magazine". sudanow-magazine.net. 6 December 2020. Retrieved 2023-01-01.
  2. "Ahmad Shibrain". Barjeel Art Foundation. Retrieved 2020-05-29.
  3. Palmer, Victoria (Winter 2001). "Art out of Sudan". African Arts. Los Angeles. 34 (4): 84–85. doi:10.2307/3337812. JSTOR 3337812. ProQuest 220983533.
  4. Eyoh, Dickson (2005). Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History. p. 587. doi:10.4324/9780203986578. ISBN 978-0-203-98657-8.
  5. Casey, David M. (1974). "Contemporary African Art". African Arts. 8 (1): 62. doi:10.2307/3334925. JSTOR 3334925.
  6. Okeke-Agulu, Chika (2015-04-06). Postcolonial Modernism: Art and Decolonization in Twentieth-Century Nigeria. Duke University Press. pp. 172–175. ISBN 978-0-8223-7630-9.
  7. "Contemporary African Art - Shibrain, Ahmed Mohammed (Sudan)". National Archives. 2016-08-15. Retrieved 2022-12-31.

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