Painter
Abdelkrim Ghattas
A horizon, a sun, colour pushed to its highest pitch: Abdelkrim Ghattas has built, over half a century, a hard-edge painting in which the geometry of the Casablanca School meets the light of the Atlantic.
The artist
Career
Born in Casablanca on 8 April 1945, Abdelkrim Ghattas entered the city’s École des Beaux-Arts in 1964, in the years when Farid Belkahia, Mohamed Melehi, Mohamed Chabâa, Toni Maraini, Bert Flint and Jacques Azéma were turning it into a laboratory of modern Moroccan art. In 1968 he left for Paris and spent four years at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. Back in Casablanca in 1972, he took up the torch in turn and has taught at the École supérieure des Beaux-Arts ever since.
Hard-edge and heritage
His work joins geometric abstraction and an ultra-dynamic chromatism to a deep attachment to Moroccan heritage. A member of the Moroccan Association of Plastic Arts from 1974, he took painting into public space: backdrops for national holidays and murals in Asilah, Agadir, Casablanca and Salé. In 1983 he painted a mural at the Berrechid psychiatric hospital with the patients, an experience that marked him deeply. His recent solo shows revisit his works of the 1970s through the lens of today.
Landmarks
- 1964 — Enters the École des Beaux-Arts, Casablanca
- 1968-1972 — École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
- 1970 — International exhibition at the Musée d’art moderne, Paris; Marly-le-Roi; Nice
- 1972 — Centre culturel Ibn Badis, France; begins teaching in Casablanca
- 1983 — Collective mural with patients, Berrechid psychiatric hospital
- 1984 — Best set design award for the film “Cauchemar”, 2nd National Film Festival
- 1995 — Group show for the ALCS, Espace Toro, Casablanca
- Exhibitions in Rabat, Baghdad, Chile, Algeria and Kuwait; snow sculpture competitions in the United States and Canada
- Solo shows “Illumination” and “Casablanca imaginiste”, Loft Art Gallery, Casablanca
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