Biography

Ahlam Lemseffer

Born in 1950 in El Jadida, Ahlam Lemseffer studied plastic arts in Paris (1968). She obtained a license in English literature. She is a teacher / researcher. She was the curator of the Women Art / Mediterranean international exhibition under the theme Solidarity Cultures. The Vermeil medal was awarded to him by the French Academy of Arts, Sciences and Letters in 2008. His first solo exhibition took place in 1994 in Rabat.

She lives and works in Casablanca.

Ahmed Jaride

Source: Babelfan

Born in 1954 in Casablanca, Ahmed Jaride taught philosophy of art at the Ecole des Beaux-arts in Casablanca in 1993. In 2002, he was chief of staff to the minister of culture. In 2004, he was the founder of GENAP (Great National Exhibition of Plastic Arts), and in 2007 launched Zon’Art, a contemporary art magazine. It organizes conferences and cultural and artistic events in Morocco and abroad and has joined many cultural associations. His first personal exhibition took place in 1988 in Casablanca. He lives and works in Casablanca.

Most of Jaride's works are made with natural materials such as pomegranate peel, walnuts, saffron, coffee or even charcoal or paper ash. His canvases take on the appearance of a rough, grainy wall, sculpted by hand; they are stripped down and tend towards monochrome. The artist deploys signs, dots, lines, graffiti, fragments of letters in pastel tones. The preferred color could be white (after the black era) but we also notice sand or ocher tones and variations of blue or green appear on the canvas. The scriptural is essential in the highly structured pictorial constructions of Jaride.

Ahmed Jaride's artistic practice is rooted in a rough and sedimented material. Indeed, his works are expressed as fragments of layered walls, speckled with graffiti or plowed fields. His pictorial studies which are essential, therefore, like so many wall plots deviate from the model of the window painting, even so, the artist uses here and there in his works of the reasons which can evoke grilles of windows or fences. of gardens.