Morocco, a modern identity.
Invent| N° d'inventaire | 22905 |
| Format | 18 x 24 |
| Détails | 80 p., paperback with flaps. |
| Publication | Lille, 2020 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782376800408 |
In the aftermath of Moroccan independence, as artistic avant-gardes emerged in non-aligned countries, in reaction to Westernized education, the artists of the Casablanca Group – Farid Belkahia (1934-2014), Mohamed Chabâa (1935-2013) and Mohamed Melehi (born in 1936) – sought the source of a new modernity in the crossbreeding with the vernacular production of their country. In a moment of symbiosis between individual creation, interventions in public space and Bauhaus-inspired teaching that they established at the Casablanca School of Fine Arts, they invented an aesthetic thought where ancestral collective production and modern individual creation meet. Mohamed Ataallah (1939-2014), Bachir Demnati (born in 1946), Mohamed Hamidi (born in 1941) and Houssein Miloudi (born in 1945) also participated in this adventure of art as a platform for research and action. This book, published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition proposed by the Institut du monde arabe-Tourcoing, evokes and contextualizes this important moment in cultural history.
In the aftermath of Moroccan independence, as artistic avant-gardes emerged in non-aligned countries, in reaction to Westernized education, the artists of the Casablanca Group – Farid Belkahia (1934-2014), Mohamed Chabâa (1935-2013) and Mohamed Melehi (born in 1936) – sought the source of a new modernity in the crossbreeding with the vernacular production of their country. In a moment of symbiosis between individual creation, interventions in public space and Bauhaus-inspired teaching that they established at the Casablanca School of Fine Arts, they invented an aesthetic thought where ancestral collective production and modern individual creation meet. Mohamed Ataallah (1939-2014), Bachir Demnati (born in 1946), Mohamed Hamidi (born in 1941) and Houssein Miloudi (born in 1945) also participated in this adventure of art as a platform for research and action. This book, published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition proposed by the Institut du monde arabe-Tourcoing, evokes and contextualizes this important moment in cultural history.