Art practices/Hypergraphy/artists

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List of artists


Hurufiyah

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  • Madiha Omar - precursor of Hurufiyah

The Khartoum School and Hurufiyah

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http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/k/khartoum-school


Al Bu’d al Wahad (the One-Dimension Group)

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Shakir Hassan al-Said


Various

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  • Saki Mafundikwa (Zimbabwe) – founder of the School of Vigital Arts - Author of “Afrikan Alphabets: the story of wiritng in Afrika”


Painters using text/image/calligraphy from Inscribing meaning:

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http://africa.si.edu/exhibits/inscribing/index1.html

Nja Mahdaoui born 1937, Tunisia Osman Waqialla born 1925, Sudan Kim Berman born 1960, South Africa Fathi Hassan, born 1957, Egypt (Nubia) Rachid Kora�chi, b. 1947, Algeria Kwesi Owusu-Ankomah born 1956, Ghana Wosene Worke Kosrof, b. 1950, Ethiopia Durant Sihlali, 1935-2004, South Africa Banza Nkulu (b. ca. 1952.) Tshibumba Kanda-Matulu (b. 1947-?)


Painters working with deconstructing calligraphy

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  • Ahmad Shibrain (Sudan b 1931)
  • Enoddin Sadeghzadeh (Iran 1965)

Zakaria Rahmani (Tangiers 1938) Jewad Selim (Iraq, 1919-1961) Narollah Afjei (Iran, b1933) Ali Shirazi (Iran b 1959) Naeem Mehmood (gallery 6, Pakistan) Martin Bulinya (Kenya)


Names from book: Contemporatry African Art

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Nsukka Group : Nigerian painters deconstructing Uli designs of Igbo and Nsibidi of Yuruban culture

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Uche Okeke Obiora Udechukwa Chike Aniakor

Victor Epkuk http://www.vmcaa.nl/vm/video/victorekpuk/


Diaspora

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Skunder Boghossian (Ethiopia/US)

  • Wosene Kosrofi (Ethiopia/US) – very hypergraphic work
  • Willie Bester (SA) – LIKE Ricky Terror’s work


AFRI-COBRA (1969)

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Achamyeleh Debela (computer hypergraphics) Gebre Kristos Desta

AGIT-Art (Dakar, Senegal group)

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Issa Samb El Hadji Sy (also see 90s revival called Set Setal )