Mutaz Eleman
Mutaz Elemam is a painter whose contemplative landscapes and confident abstractions trace the emotional imprint of places lived, remembered, and imagined—offering viewers a quiet dialogue between movement, memory, and meaning.
Mutaz Elemam is a Sudanese painter whose practice is informed by the many places he has worked, lived and continues to experience today. Elemam creates ethereal contexts evocative of a parallel realm through his hazily painted works. Assorted geographical landscapes are present with greens of grassy knolls, blues and oranges of coral beds in the sea, and brown tree trunks of a forest. Capturing the essence of spaces and places still virgin and untouched, Elemam reveals a magic that exists in such spaces.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
5th Beijing International Art Biennale (2012); The Khartoum School: The Making of the Modern Art Movement in Sudan (1945–Present), Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah (2016 – 2017) and SIA – Biennale de Sarria (2017). His artwork is held in private collections and in institutions around the world.
EDUCATION:
Sudan University of Science and Technology in Khartoum. Elemam is a member of the General Union of Sudanese Plastic Artists and the Cairo Atelier.
Elemam lives and works between Egypt and Sudan.
“I try in this exhibition to document an eternal colourful artistic relation between the great river and its people, animals, environment, and culture. This relation is narrated through places and elements. The river for me is an old question, present in all my travels between and inside the Nile Basin countries.”
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