Painter
Mohamed Abouelouakar
Sandpaper, corrugated cardboard, fabric, birch bark, photographs and pigment: Mohamed Abouelouakar is a “sculptor of images” who gives form and colour to existential anguish and to buried dreams.
The artist
Career
Born in Marrakech in 1946, Mohamed Abouelouakar exhibited at the Galerie Bab Rouah in Rabat from the 1960s, then left in 1966 to study cinema at the State Institute of Cinematography in Moscow, where he graduated as a director. His film “Hadda” (1984), of a rare poetic breadth, won the Grand Prix of Morocco’s National Film Festival. Painting nonetheless forms the core of his work. He lives and works between Casablanca and Elektrostal, in Russia.
The great river of being
Few artists have invented so powerful a visual vocabulary for the world of ideas and emotions. Figures, pigments, lines and photographs are stirred together in a work that laughs at being alive and mourns its dead, its ills and misfortunes. A filmmaker’s eye for montage and an openness to every technique of his time give his paintings their density.
Landmarks
- 1962 — Group exhibition, Marrakech
- 1963-1968 — Galerie Bab Rouah, Rabat
- 1966-1967 — Institute of Cinematography, Moscow
- 1975 — “Gouache”, Galerie L’Atelier, Rabat; “Reliefs”, Galerie Nadar, Casablanca
- 1993 — Retrospective of paintings, notebooks and Sufi tales, Moscow
- 1997 — Retrospective, Institut français, Casablanca
- 1999 — “Le Temps du Maroc”, Sète
- 2001 — Artoteek, The Hague
- 2008 — “La Route de la soie”, Galerie Delacroix, Tangier
- 2009 — “Échelles”, Galerie Arcanes, Rabat
- 2014 — “1914-2014, cent ans de création”, Mohammed VI Museum, Rabat
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