(Social) Realism: Sudan

Rashid Diab (1957)
Born in 1957, Diab was raised in Wad Medani, on the banks of the Blue Nile in Sudan. He graduated with honors from the Khartoum College of Fine Art. He moved to Madrid where he studied art at the Complutensa University, under a scholarship. Diab received his doctorate degree in painting from the university in 1991, and joined the faculty as an art teacher until 1999.

"Since I was a small child, I have loved to travel. I always wanted to be somewhere discovering new places, different types of life and other people. I constantly thought of how I could create a real and intimate relationship with distance and space. Why do things have specific dimensions and a certain shape at a certain time? These questions became an obsession with the only solution being to paint and continue paint,'' he said. For the 52-year-old artist, painting is a necessity. ``I know that the desire to paint is something within me part of my inner self, part of my subconscious. As time passed, this need to paint and draw transformed itself into something like a biological instinct, which has strengthened my relationship with the world around me,'' he said. It was in Spain, when he started to appreciate his Sudanese heritage.

http://artforarabs.blogspot.com/2009/01/rashid-diab.html
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/include/print.asp?newsIdx=43376
http://www.sudasite.com/rashid/rashid.htm
























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