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Details from
" Brightness Stories 2"
2m/1.60 Oil on Canvas.1992
Photo credit:
M.BENCHEIKH
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| Written by: Reda Fakhar & Ashley Brackmann |
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This biography was done after an interview with the artist in his artwork in Rabat, 20th September 2006.
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About the painter
Much breakage was needed to cease breakage.
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An art conditioned by others……
“We live in a world where the most important and the wonderful thing still to be done.”
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Khalid FAKHAR’s passion for painting started early in his youth. More recently he has focused his energy on creating works depicting the human anatomy through the medium of modeling (clay) and painting.
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A « Sit-in » in the name of Contemporary art
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In 1998, the “Art & Public” (a group of six painters) decided to expose their paintings in a street in downtown Rabat, the Capital of Morocco.
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Art is an « exhibitionist »!?
« My art is not for selling. »
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It was the astonishing to hear, “people say they didn’t show interest for what we were doing, and we were forcing them to believe in us. It soon became clear that the contemporary art did not have a strong place in Moroccan culture.
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Colours and nerves...
Much breakage was needed to cease breakage. Why wait for tomorrow??
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Ten years of refusal land solitude was necessary to forge the spirit of an artist who mix colours on its nerves, each painting was destroyed, torn or burned in order to find other matters and other forms.
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Posted at: 01/03/2007
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