{"title":"Mahjoubi Aherdane","description":"\u003cp\u003e“I paint to free myself; painting is, for me, the search for balance.” A leading figure of Moroccan public life, Mahjoubi Aherdane was also, for more than seventy years, a painter and poet with a blazing imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eCareer\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in 1921 in Oulmès, in the Middle Atlas, Mahjoubi Aherdane discovered painting in Nice in 1947, through a chance friendship with the brother of a painter. A soldier and then a statesman, co-founder of the Mouvement populaire in 1957 and several times a minister, he never stopped painting or writing, and devoted himself to art, poetry and Amazigh culture once he stepped back from politics. He died in his native Oulmès on 15 November 2020, at the age of 99.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eA flamboyant dream world\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis painting belongs to a dreamlike vein close to Surrealism, of haunting complexity: ambiguous forms suggesting horses, eyes, leaves and majestic flowers, intertwined in reds, greens and yellows; strange subjects, disembodied shadows, restrained light. An “intoxication with pure colour” fed by the Amazigh imagination he defended all his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eLandmarks\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1947 — Discovers painting in Nice\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1957 — Co-founds the Mouvement populaire\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExhibitions in Versailles and London\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1991 — “Un poème pour étendard”, L’Harmattan\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMemoirs published by Éditions du Regard\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2020 — Dies in Oulmès, at 99\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch2\u003eDo you own a work by Mahjoubi Aherdane?\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe gallery can examine it: \u003ca href=\"\/en\/pages\/estimation\"\u003erequest a valuation\u003c\/a\u003e or \u003ca href=\"\/en\/pages\/revente\"\u003econsign it for sale\u003c\/a\u003e at ARTWORKS in Casablanca. The authenticity of every work is checked before it is offered for sale; for a deceased artist, a certificate and provenance documents are required.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eIn the same spirit\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiscover works by \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/abdelkarim-el-azhar\"\u003eAbdelkarim El Azhar\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/mohamed-benmoussa\"\u003eMohamed Benmoussa\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/said-lahssini\"\u003eSaïd Lahssini\u003c\/a\u003e, or browse \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/art-for-sale-in-morocco\"\u003eall Moroccan paintings for sale\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0773\/2088\/0442\/collections\/aherdane.jpg?v=1689862294","url":"https:\/\/moroccanpaintings.com\/en\/collections\/mahjoubi-aherdane.oembed","provider":"Moroccan Paintings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}