A pioneer of Arab modernism, painter Hamed Abdalla (1917-1985) created the "wordform" to transform Arab letters into a "body" alphabet. Born in Cairo, in a family of peasants, the Egyptian artist lived from 1956 in Denmark, then in Paris. In his unique work, he brought together the life of the small people as well as the pharaonic art, the arts of Islam or his political commitments. An overview on the occasion of the retrospective "Hamed Abdalla…
A pioneer of Arab modernism, painter Hamed Abdalla (1917-1985) created the "wordform" to transform Arab letters into a "body" alphabet. Born in Cairo, in a family of peasants, the Egyptian artist lived from 1956 in Denmark, then in Paris. In his unique work, he brought together the life of the small people as well as the pharaonic art, the arts of Islam or his political commitments. An overview on the occasion of the retrospective "Hamed Abdalla…