Mohamed Abdalla Otaybi (Sudan, Born 1948) Against Violence
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- Property from a private collection, UK Mohamed Abdalla Otaybi is a Sudanese artist known for his unique artistic style that blends traditional Sudanese motifs with modern abstract techniques
- Many of Otaybi's paintings incorporate references to Sudanese history and culture, including traditional music and dance, as well as images of Nubian pyramids and other iconic landmarks
- One of Otaybi's signature techniques is the use of 'molten wax,' a method in which he applies hot wax to the canvas and then paints over it, creating a textured and layered effect
- He also incorporates calligraphy and Arabic script into his work, often using it to express messages of peace, unity, and social justice
- In his early years, Otaybi was heavily inspired by Ibrahim El-Salahi and Ahmed Shibrain
- Otaybi shared the underlying philosophy of the School of Khartoum movement's first generation in that he wanted to look within Sudanese culture to create an art that was meaningful both to himself and to Sudanese society
- However, Otaybi thinks of himself as rather belonging to the School of Khartoum's second generation as his work in the 1970s markedly differed from his predecessors
- In the late-1980s, Otaybi co-founded the Madrasat Al-Wahid (The School of the One) art movement with a number of other Sudanese artists
- Otaybi explains this as the final stage of the School of Khartoum: members of the movement were seeking to create a concrete theoretical foundation to accompany the practices of the School of Khartoum
- Al-Wahid concentrated on the Islamic aspects of the Khartoum School, as its founders felt that the Sufi Islamic tradition was widely spread in Sudanese culture, and they wanted to focus on that part of the Sudanese heritage which they saw as closest to the everyday life of the Sudanese
- Otaybi has exhibited nationally and internationally, and has received a number of prestigious awards, including the 1981 Kuwaiti Golden Sail Award, a prize at the 1993 Sharjah Biennial and the Gold Medal at the 2003 Cairo Biennale
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