Farid Belkahia. Pour une autre modernité. Grèce à Fréjus

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They can penetrate this deeply hallucinatory pictorial vision - and unique in its time -

which were adopted by neighbouring sedentary societies

Maurice Denis (1870-1943) was a painter and theoretician of French modern art at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries

The latter bases its hold on a mythified vision of art history: the 20th century was above all the century of avant-gardes

Farid Belkahia. Pour une autre modernité. Grèce à FréjusA key figure of the postcolonial era and a protagonist of the Casablanca School, Moroccan artist Farid Belkahia (1934 2014) forged his own language by drawing on ancestral craft traditions, far from the tabula rasa advocated by Western avant gardes. Having abandoned painting in favor of copper and then leather, he is the author of a unique body of work, in which forms of desire and desire for forms merge.