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Title: Without Features
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Article 19: Freedom of Opinion & Information
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Hassa’an Ali Ahmed was born in Sudan in 1954 and educated in Japan, Egypt and Sudan. He has a degree in Politics and Anthropology from the University of Khartoum.. He won the Plastic Art Prize, UK Press and received the Noma Concourse Award of Japan in 1988 and 1996. Hassa’an Ali Ahmed has had numerous exhibitions both solo and group.
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| His solo exhibitions have been mainly in Egypt and the Sudan and group exhibitions have been in Europe, England and the US. He also represented Sudan in the First Johannesburg Biennale of International Contemporary Art in 1995. |
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Salah Hassan (Assistant Professor of African Art, Cornel University) says Ahmad’s art not only evokes memory and contemplates the loss of the past, but also encounters the present and shapes the future. Now living in Egypt, Ahmed is no stranger to migration and diaspora. For him, they are an intricate part of a group tradition, a tradition reinforced by the Nubian’s resettlement in the aftermath of the Aswan Dam.
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| The Nubians posses a rich heritage of ancient artistic and architectural achievements which, along with migration and diaspora, have formed great influences on Ahmed’s aesthetic, and become a source of visions he continues to explore in his. Ahmed’s work often contains not only conscious references to his Sudanese and Nubian heritage, but also African and Islamic motifs infused with Western modernist ideas and styles – hence inviting multiple interpretations. |
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