Mercedes Carmona, Madrid 2020
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Painter and african art theoretician
Mercedes Carmona is a Spanish painter, professor and founder of Dara Art Gallery. Born in Madrid and studied Fine Art at the Complutense University where she received her PhD in Theory of African Art. In 1999 she migrated to Sudan with her family to establish this gallery where Sudanese art could be exhibited and critiqued in a professional manner. There she curated the exhibitions of Ibrahim al-Salahi, Hussein Gamaan, Yassir Abu El Haram, Shibrain and Rashid Diab. She has exhibited across continents and until today is still active in her creations. Today she lives in Spain teaching art and is also focusing her artistic talent in candid drawing, printmaking, still life, arabic caligraphy, paper marbeling and is contantly researching as well as practising the creation of her own paper. In all Mercedes is one of the old school artists which is still heuristic in nature and has a reach and technical capacity for all techniques.
In 2005 she also opened Universal Coffee in Khartoum, a restaurant that also had an art gallery, where contemporary african artists exhibited including Fatima Ibanof, Maliza Kiatsuwa, Noamad Faris, Hussein Mirghani, Waleed Warrag, Ghasan Said, El Nour, Douma, Salah el Mur, Ahmed Al sharif, Mahmoud Hano, Mohamed Otaybi and many more. Today she is living in Spain, still active in her passion and endlessly expaning her techniqiues.
A multidicplinary artist
Painter
Art Theory
Curator
Professor
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1982 – 1988 Spain
Fine Arts Degree in Painting at Madrid’s Universidad Complutense.
1991-1999
Art and Technical drawing professor.
1996
PhD Fine Arts (Painting) at Madrid’s Universidad Complutense.
PhD thesis: “The identity of African Art in relation with European Aesthetics. Modern African Painting”.
1999-2005 Sudan
Founder and Managing Director of Dara Art Gallery
2005-2009
Managing director of Universal Coffee Gallery
2009-present Spain
Art and Technical drawing professor.
Dara Art Gallery 