Exhibition
28 February 2023–20 May 2023

A Perfect World

By Aly Ben Salem

Part of Alserkal Art Week

Elmarsa Gallery is delighted to present the first solo exhibition by leading Tunisian modernist Aly Ben Salem.

Starts 28 February 2023

Ends 20 May 2023

Venue Elmarsa Gallery

Warehouse 23

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Elmarsa Gallery is delighted to present A Perfect World, the first solo exhibition by leading Tunisian modernist Aly Ben Salem (1910-2001) at Elmarsa Gallery, Dubai, offering viewers a perspective on a pivotal moment in North African art history. He has managed to overcome genres thanks to his original style which distinctly mingles harmoniously figures with oval faces and eloquent postures with traditional artefacts
carefully delineated.

His scenes often bathe in a unified continuum of diaphanous light dominated by ochre. Equally inspired by the decorative nature of Tunisian craft as Persian and Indian miniature tradition, Aly Ben Salem’s figurative practice, is represented by a group of paintings that offer insight into the duel influence of Fauvism and miniature painting in the evolution of his recognizable romantic style and composition.