Review of North African Artists

Paiting :

Abderrazak Sahli :- TUNISIA

Born in Hammamet in 1940. Works and lives in Tunisia.

Sahli's compositions, some of which are on very larg scale, seem to be retrieved from a swarm of figures. His painting reacts to a variety of stimuli, mixing unconscious elements with what is conscious, vigorous and spontaneous. His different surfaces, colours and themes are a synthesis between minimalism conceptual art, new realism and free figuration.

Rose Issa
Catalogue of the exhibition"Bakou"
Leiton House Museum, London


Rafik Kamel :- TUNISIA

Born in Tunis in 1944. Works and lives in Tunisia.

Rafik Kamel belongs to the second generation of Tunisian painters. He is an abstract painter , who moves with ease between figuration and abstraction ,and shows that there is no inherent contradiction or real seperation between the two. He uses biological or molecular forms in subtle colours that suggest an inner reality not visible to the naked eye.

Rachid Koraichi :- ALGERIA

Born in Algeria in 1947. Works and lives in Tunisia.

He employs calligraphy in an abstract symbolic manner so that his alphabets turn into symbols for revolution and protest. He avoids colour, especially in his graphics, and depends on a dramatic contrast of black with white.

Wijdan Ali
Contemporary Art in the Islamic World


Mohamed Omar Khalil :- SUDAN

Born in Burri, Sudan, in 1936. Works and lives in New York.

Mohamed Khalil is a most accomplished graphic artist, painter and teacher, whose work relies on forms and pattern, comprising symbols, artefacts, stamps or any kind of motifs derived from his Sudanese background.The gradational colours of black and the different contrasts of black contribute to the achievement of sensibility and drama.

Wijdan Ali
Contamporary Art in the Islamic World