The British Tate Saint Ives gallery is interested in creativity and research in fine art in Morocco, by celebrating the “Casablanca School of Fine Arts”, which was marked by late figures such as Farid Belkahia and Mohamed Melehi.
The Casablanca Art School exhibition, which is expected to continue until January 14, 2024, is the first of its kind in the United Kingdom, dedicated to discovering “the intense moment of artistic rebirth that followed Morocco’s independence,” and shaped by the educational curriculum. Experimental work at the “Casablanca School of Arts” between the sixties and seventies.
The exhibition includes the works of 22 artists “showing the broad formations of the new Moroccan wave,” through various abstract, mural, applied, calligraphic, and design expressions.
For reference, the exhibition also includes printed archival selections, newspapers that accompanied the experiments, photographs documenting the figures, works and the history of these artistic productions, and recorded audio and video clips as well.
