PIASA presents, in partnership with ASPIRE auction house, a sale of African Contemporary Art on 14 February 2020 in Cape Town, South Africa.
Salah Elmur’s paintings are inspired by studio photographers in Khartoum in the 1960s and 1970s. They are stylised family portraits, rich in symbols and often animals. Elmur applies the paint in thick and muted layers illuminated by a few touches of light. Their atmospheres and characters—whose emblematic faces are imbued with strong emotional charge which seem to contain all their history—are faithful to the atmosphere which reigns in a country where the inhabitants wear coloured clothes for shelter from the intense sun.
Salah Elmur's works are in many public and private collections in Africa, the Middle East, Europe and North America, including the Al Maaden Museum of Contemporary African Art (MACAAL), the Museum of Sharjah Art and the Sharjah Art Foundation (SAF). He has exhibited in Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Sudan, Syria, Jordan, France, Washington, Uganda and Kenya in particular.
Christophe Person Head of Contemporary African Art, PIASA
Estimation : 12000 / 16000 €
