Sudanese plastic artist Mahjoub Hassan said that the regime of the ousted president, Omar al-Bashir, had emptied his country of plastic artists, who had been forced to emigrate from their homeland for the past three decades.
Hassan, before leaving Luxor in Upper Egypt, after his participation in the 12th edition of the Luxor International Photography Forum, which was organized by the Egyptian Ministry of Culture from the fifth to the 19th of this year, Hassan added that the Al-Bashir regime fought art by stopping the fine exhibitions and forums, and imposed a siege on the galleries in all All over Sudan.
He explained that the Sudanese plastic movement played a great role in the success of the revolution, through hundreds of drawings and art murals, which carried the slogans of the revolution and embodied the Sudanese struggle against oppression, injustice and corruption. On the reality of the Sudanese plastic movement after the revolution, Hassan said that many Sudanese artistic faces began returning to the homeland, and that a state of optimism prevails among the Sudanese plastic artists, who are waiting for the government to take serious steps to encourage the artistic movement in the country, by activating the role of the College of Fine and Applied Arts, and establishing Showrooms.
He stated that Sudan is awaiting a great formative renaissance after the revolution, and about the present and future of the Arab plastic movement, he emphasized that the Arab plastic movement is much richer and more productive than the plastic movement in Europe and other continents of the world, and that true art originates from the East and from the countries of the Arab world, and that the beginning of art The abstract was in Pharaonic Egypt, and that the international artist Picasso drew much of his work from African plastic arts.
He pointed out that the Sudanese plastic movement is richer than its counterparts in the countries of the Arab world, thanks to the cultural pluralism that made it different thanks to its experiences that bring together the Arab and African cultures, and its unique vocabulary that is not repeated in many Arab countries. On his own experience, Hassan said that he benefited from his works with the daily stock in his memory, which is composed of African and Arab cultures, and explained that Africa is present in his works strongly beside his use of Arabic calligraphy with a different formative vision in his paintings.