Many ways to be Modern — theartnewspaper.com

The Modernism of Ibrahim El-Salahi (Reborn Sounds of Childhood Dreams 1) Visitors to Tate Modern this summer could not have failed to notice that, of the museum’s four exhibitions, three were dedicated to artists from outside traditional Western art centres. Two of them, Saloua Raouda Choucair and Ibrahim El-Salahi, are key figures in the development of Modernism in their respective countries, Lebanon and Sudan. Crucial to both artists’ work was their experience in European cities—Choucair studied with Léger in Paris, El-Salahi at the Slade in London—but both artists developed their own versions of Modernism in their homelands, informed by local traditions.

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