Ahmed Alsoudani (b.1975)

'Standing before Ahmed Alsoudani's recent paintings [one is] reminded of Edgar Allan Poes definition of the grotesque, as combining much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust. It is hard to think of another contemporary artist who has depicted the consequences of war with such sensuousness, strangeness and abhorrence'
(S. Biernoff, quoted in The Impurity of Painting, in Ahmed Alsoudani, London, 2011, unpaged).