legitimate questions !!

A « Sit-in » in the name of Contemporary art

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 In 1986 K.FAKHAR created with his friend the painter Samir SALMI ( in Rabat) the CTAC, a cell of work and research in Contemporary art Domain. The main activity of this cell was formation in the trades of art and its history, the visit of workshops of the Moroccan artists and the organization of meetings connecting artists, “the communication was necessary at the time in order to increase the circle.”
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 In 1989 it’s the beginning of our activities inside the Moroccan university, already in 1988 K.FAKHAR( with his colleagues of the CTAC) organized his first exposure of Contemporary art at the university Mohamed V, Faculty of literature and human science, Rabat.
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 One year later, it’s the foundation of movement “Art &Public”, a group of Six painters, who decided to expose their paintings in the street in downtown Rabat, the Capital of Morocco, "it was the great time for us"
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 The idea was to expose the Contemporary art in the street, to break the wall of silence and targeting people who never visit the art galleries, which is hardly interested in painting, it was about targeting a convinced public, that it does not have a place in Morocco for this kind of Art.

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  “It was for the first time in Morocco to make a set-in in the name of Art” , and besides a great part of the press during the time, and also the national TV “TVM” sent their journalists in order to cover the event . K.FAKHAR and his colleagues have succeed “ to make circulate the question about the utility of this Art, named Contemporary in a country who counts about 60% of illiterate, a legitimate question !! Especially if we are painters and we think we are Contemporary moreover”.
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Posted at: 01/03/2007

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