Hommage à la flèche
Exhibition from June 3 to July 13, 2019.
In 1974, Farid Belkahia, after experimenting with several materials, opted for working on the skin, which he softened and refined like a parchment, stretching it over wooden backgrounds with symbolic and totemic cuts. It is on this skin that a plastic, metaphysical and ritualistic language of the body, forgotten or censored, is inscribed, which the artist places in a contemporary issue.
La flèche, one of the favorite signs of the artist's alphabet, is in great demand for the dialectic of the feminine principle and the masculine principle. By dividing the space of the work, it inspires the idea of synthesis between different universal forms. The arrow brings into play the notions of verticality and horizontality where the being, standing, will aspire to the opening towards the sky.
The arrow will not hesitate to evoke its relationship to magic where its shape resembles that of the snake, the border between the licit and the desirable between the feminine and the masculine.
Biography: Farid Belkahia
Farid Belkahia was born in 1934 in Marrakech.
From 1955 to 1959, he continued his studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He was then trained, from 1959 to 1962, in the art of decorating stages at the Theater Institute in Prague. In 1965-66, he perfected his apprenticeship at the Brera Academy in Milan.
Back in Morocco, Farid Belkahia held the post of director of the School of Fine Arts in Casablanca from 1962 to 1974. After a period of figurative painting, Farid Belkahia oriented his art towards its more geometric patterns and diversified the supports of his painting. Unconventional, tracing the path of modern Moroccan art, his tinted works on skin are essential in painting in Morocco.
Prestigious collections including the Musée du Quai Branly, the Institut du Monde Arabe, the Kunst Cristal Museum, the British Museum, etc.
Farid Belkahia Mathaf Museum
from June 4, 2019 to July 13, 2019
