Abusharia serves feast of colours and semi-abstract imagery
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- 14 Oct 2022
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Evidence that Red Hill Art Gallery has the makings of a modern or contemporary African art museum manifested itself last Sunday, October 2.
That was the day the solo exhibition of Retrospective works by the Sudanese artist Abusharia Ahmed went on display. Yet none of it was for sale.
Most galleries put price tags on every painting, sculpture, or print that’s on display. Most museums do not. The tags might be discrete, but they are always around since galleries are commercial enterprises and artists also need to survive.
Red Hill is a mix of both gallery and museum, since Hellmuth Rossler-Musch has collected such a formidable body of East African art, he often feels compelled to share it with the world.
That’s how he chose to share some of Abushariaa’s finest paintings at his gallery, but none are for sale. The Kampala-based artist has been exhibiting quietly in Kenya since the early 1990s when he accepted Elimo Njau’s invitation to attend one of Paa ya Paa’s art workshops.
He was living in Khartoum at the time, but he became one of the first Sudanese artists to arrive in Kenya and stay at Paa ya Paa as an artist in-residence for several years. Coincidently, he began to sell his art through Saraag Gallery around the same time as Hellmuth was beginning to seriously collect East African art, starting at Watatu and Saraag. Read More...
