{"product_id":"dp-150-ibrahim-el-salahi-pain-relief-drawings-regular","title":"Ibrahim El Salahi: Pain Relief Drawings","description":"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe exhibition publication \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/drawingcenter.org\/exhibitions\/ibrahim-el-salahi\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIbrahim El-Salahi: Pain Relief Drawings\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e features drawings from El-Salahi's latest series, titled \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePain Relief\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e. Drafted on the back of medicine packets, pill bottle labels, envelopes, and scraps of paper, El-Salahi’s intricate pen and ink \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePain Relief\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003edrawings serve as a form of respite for the 92-year-old artist, who finds diversion from his chronic pain through his daily drawing practice.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBorn in 1930 in Omdurman, Sudan, Ibrahim El-Salahi is one of the most significant artists in African and Arab modernism. A British citizen for decades, El-Salahi’s drawings are deeply connected to postwar European modernism, but also are profoundly embedded in a tradition of African and Islamic art history. After studying at the Slade School of Art in London, El-Salahi returned to Khartoum in the late 1950s to become a founding member of the celebrated Khartoum School, a bellwether group of artists that represented the flowering of modernism in the Islamic world. Inspired by Arabic calligraphy, as well as Surrealist figuration and geometric abstraction, El-Salahi created a distinctive visual language that he expresses most prolifically in drawing.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Shapco Printing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43248686989465,"sku":"9780942324471","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/9611\/5865\/files\/DP150_Cover.png?v=1689342416","url":"https:\/\/shop.drawingcenter.org\/products\/dp-150-ibrahim-el-salahi-pain-relief-drawings-regular","provider":"The Drawing Center","version":"1.0","type":"link"}