Marrakech Art Fair, the fair of contemporary art
| Marrakech Art Fair takes place indeed from 9 to 11 October and already unveiled its program. True mass of arts, this major event will the Red City the recipient of a party where creative imagination and shine a thousand lights to dazzle the hungry souls of all that is beautiful and aesthetic. | ||||||||
| High Mass Arts brings together European galleries, Morocco and the Arab world in space fairy Hotel Es Saadi. A new appointment is, therefore, to be added to the list of events that punctuate the cultural life of Marrakech. "This is a platform for exchanges between merchants, artists, collectors and art lovers" as defined by its organizers. For four days, collectors and enthusiasts will gather at this major exhibition of modern and contemporary art to present their works and share their discoveries. On the one hand, the stands of the galleries will invest Es Saadi Palace into a set of best level between East and West. Among the thirty participating galleries, one half comes from the Arab world while another half is from Europe. On the other hand, nearly a dozen galleries will present a thematic project within the Ballroom inside the Palace, on the history of art, of Orientalism to the present. For example, the gallery will present JGM de Paris Jean-François Fourtou, an artist familiar in Marrakesh; Hussenot gallery exhibit of the same city Mounir Fatmi, but viewers will also discover the galleries Anne Town pitch, or The Bank and Ilona Orel, Vachet Carolina and many others. Throughout the fair, round tables organized with the assistance of Roxana This course outside the Palace gates open so the foundations, riads and artists' studios, inviting fans to discover sites related to the history of Marrakech. The Museum of Marrakech will host the October 7 to December 7, the exhibition "Resonances: contemporary Moroccan artists in the world" produced by the Council of the Moroccan community abroad. This unprecedented initiative will introduce for the first time in Morocco many artists of the diaspora recognized elsewhere. It will bring together and fifteen contemporary artists and propose to highlight matches geographical, cultural and emotional that feed their creations. Space Foundation Dar Bellarj, it will unveil photographs and videos of contemporary Arab artists with an unusual look at the reality and the imagination of today's world, and, as part of the exhibition entitled "Images self. " Included are works by Adel Abidin, Meriem Bouderbala, Faisal Samra, or Youssef Nabil. Contemporary art from Africa will be celebrated, meanwhile, in the former agency of the Bank of Morocco on the Jamaa El Fna, in the collections of André Magnin and representing artists Cheri Samba de Kinshasa (Republic Congo), Romuald Hazoumé Cotonou (Benin), Billie Zangewa Johannesburg (South Africa), Abu Mansaray Bakarr Amsterdam (Netherlands), and others. It's not all because in addition to all the activities planned, Marrakech Art Fair will be an opportunity for the public to find private collections in homes singular passion to share their owners to show contemporary art. Art, again and again ... The Moroccan street art is not forgotten since led intervention Moroccan rapper Bigg Don will be held at the wintering area. Six Moroccan graffiti artists will present their way of creating performances at night. Another historic site of the city, another performance. The Riad Dar Cherifa be presenting "Around the tree Palaver" a thematic exhibition in the form of dialogue between the artist and the poet Farid BELKAHIA ADONIS. Fourtou Foundation and Al Maqam, two worship spaces of the city in turn welcome the artists of Marrakech Art Fair. Al Maqam is a meeting place and residence of artists Tahannaout located near Marrakech. Finally, a symposium on art education will be organized in partnership with the Graduate School of Visual Arts in Marrakech. | |||||||
