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Farid Belkahia - For a New Modernity

Farid Belkahia - Publisher Centre Pompidou - Ouvrage broché - 160 pages - Text in Bilingue Français / English - Published in 2021

Published on the occasion of the retrospective exhibition of the Moroccan painter Farid Belkahia (1934 -2014), this catalogue affirms the artist as one of the founders of Moroccan and, more broadly, Arab artistic modernity.

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Model 9782844268860
Artist Farid Belkahia
Author Sous la direction de Michel Gauthier
Publisher Centre Pompidou
Format Ouvrage broché
Number of pages 160
Language Bilingue Français / English
Dimensions 235 x 157
Published 2021
Museum Centre Pompidou, Paris

Trained at the Beaux-Arts de Paris (1955-1959), then at the Prague Theatre Academy in scenography (1959-1962), Farid Belkahia is known for his works painted on leather with natural materials.

Director of the Casablanca School of Fine Arts between 1962 and 1974, he played an essential role in Morocco in "the decolonisation of the imaginary" by offering an open education, emancipated from Western practices.

From 1974 onwards, he devoted himself entirely to his art, using copper, skin, cut wood and natural dyes for his works, recreating universal graphic symbols, notably from Berber signs. He imposed the idea of a painting independent of the colonial heritage and established contemporary values that will influence generations of artists in Morocco and give it an international presence.

Exhibition Catalogue Farid Belkahia. For a New Modernity, presented at Centre Pompidou, Paris (May 19.- July, 19, 2021).

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