Danko Stjepanovic
Artwork Details:
Artist(s)
Adam Henein
Title
Obligatory Silence
Date
1986
Medium(s)
Natural pigments and acacia gum on papyrus
Dimensions/Duration
91 x 134 cm
Photo Credit
Obligatory Silence
After moving to Paris in the early 1970s, Adam Henein expanded his practice to include painting on ancient Egyptian papyrus, a porous and delicate paper. When studied through the lens of the current time, his artworks present amorphous abstractions seemingly akin to an act of resistance within the Egyptian modernist art community at the time. Henein worked against the grain, avoiding the figurative tendencies that were dominant in his home country.
