Painter
Abdellatif Zine
Abdellatif Zine (1940–2016) was born in Marrakech and trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Casablanca and the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 1963 he took part in the exhibition "Two Thousand Years of Art in Morocco" in Paris, before exhibiting in Morocco and abroad. Founding president of the Moroccan union of professional visual artists and a court-appointed fine-art expert, he was one of the strong, outspoken voices of the Moroccan art scene.
The artist
His early work was figurative, drawn from Moroccan folklore and rendered in transparent, vivid colours dominated by red and yellow: rituals, a hammam scene, a dancer in motion, a Gnaoui in trance. His figures emerge in nuance from a play of colour and diffuse light.
In 1990 he created Trans'Art, fusing painting with Gnawa music. Seeking pictorial equivalents to the repetitive build-up of the music towards trance, he gathered splashes of paint as the traces of a happening, between a hallucinated abstract expressionism and the memory of a musical tradition rooted in Africa. "Neither figurative nor abstract," he said, "my works are made of successive touches that relate everyday Moroccan life, all in movement: what I call expressive figuration."
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