Overview
This retrospective presents Egyptian-American artist Kamal Youssef in collaboration with Sharjah Museums Department. Born in Egypt in 1923, Kamal continues to be productive for more than seventy years with a distinctive style of painting and sculpture.
Kamal Youssef: Egyptian Surrealism's Time Capsule is co-curated by Sharjah Art Foundation's Director and President Hoor Al Qasimi and Dr Salah M. Hassan, Goldwin Smith Professor and Director, Institute for Comparative Modernities, Cornell University.
Wages of War
Kamal Youssef
2010
installation view
Mixed media on canvas
175 x 130 cm
Image courtesy of Sharjah Art Foundation
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Youssef, Kamal
One of the members of the Egyptian avant-garde movement, Kamal Youssef is a painter and sculptor whose work spans over 70 years.