Artists

 

 

 

The artists of Essaouira, are known for their naive, colorful style of painting.

The artists were encouraged and promoted by Frédéric Damgaard, a Danish gallerist. Indeed it could be argued that Damgaard’s intervention “created” the Essaouira artists. He first visited Essaouira in 1969 and became so enamored that he settled there and opened an art gallery in 1988. The Essaouira artists have exhibited their work in several European venues.
Souce:Modern African Art : A Basic Reading List

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Artwork of Houssein Miloud who lives and works in Essaouira.

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Exposition – Hommage à Ali Menouar (1937-2015)

l’Association Essaouira Mogador rend hommage, du 16 au 27 Février 201-, à l’œuvre d’Ali Menouar, artiste peintre algérien décédé à l’âge de 78 ans à Essaouira (Maroc) en février 2015. Reconnu pour son fabuleux talent de coloriste, ses toiles ont fait le tour des galeries d’art internationales. Sa fille Fabienne Menouar, artiste céramiste, présentera également à cette occasion ses œuvres.

Vernissage : Mardi 16 février 2015 à 18H30

 

Boujemâa Lakhdar

"I want to remain always astonished, because whenever I finish something, I have the impression to have dragged a secret away from nature."

Boujemâa Lakhdar (1941 - 1989)
Pioneer of Essaouira painting
Curator of the Museum of the Popular Arts of Essaouira from 1980 to 1989 the date of his death.

The story of Boujemâa Lakhdar began in the fifties. He was strongly inspired by the popular arts and traditions of Morocco. He is considered as the dean of Essaouira painters. Thanks to his work and his interest in culture, he remains the most prominent artistic personality in Morocco.
From: Boujemâa Lakhdar: Pioneer of Essaouira painting Beyond the walls of Essaouira

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Houssein Miloudi (1945 -2022)

ANDRÉ AZOULAY À PROPOS DE FEU HOUSSEIN MILOUDI: «UNE DES PLUS BELLES LUMIÈRES D’ESSAOUIRA S’EST ÉTEINTE»

King Mohammed VI Offers Condolences to Houssein Miloudi’s Family

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Bande annonce "Les Pinceaux de Mogador" film d'Abdel MOUZI (Video)

Sous les vents du Mogador (Facebook)

The Al Maade Museum of Contemporary African Art (Macaal) honors artists from Essaouira, with an exhibition called "Outsiders / Insiders?" which brings together a large panel of works. To discover in this report.
Le360 13 mars 2021

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	Mourad el Attaoui He has his studio and workshop in the Joutiya beautifully located at the shore of the Atlantic Ocean.

Mustapha El Harchi

Morocco’s Painter by Mouth
Always at place Moulay Hassan
Essaouira

Ismail Siham
Bouakher
Essaouira
See also Street Art Graffiti 2012

Essaouira was discovered by the hippie movement in the late 1960's and early 1970's. Rock stars such as Jimmy Hendrix and Cat Stevens visited the town and the Living Theater of Julian Beck and Judith Malina found a home there for a time. Because of the presence of such celebrities, Essaouira became a destination for young people and artists who left an important mark on the cultural tourism that would develop later. The Living Theater, which combined elements of stage and visual arts, along with the psychedelic paintings with which hippies decorated the walls of their rooms, is thought to have inspired the first generation of Souiri painters: Boujemâa Lakhdar, Houssein Miloudi. It has also influenced the post-psychedelic Tribal or Gnaoua style typified by Mohamed Tabal and now closely associated with the culture of the city. Yet the hippie “boom” was short-lived and could not forestall the city's long decline.
From: ;http://www.aui.ma/personal/~E.Ross/essaouira.htm

• Culture Hippie

ELBAZ

 

Lahoucine Chahdid, born 1951, has been a fisherman
for over 30 years. He has his gallery in the "Jotiya"
where he exibits his signed paintings.

Wooden sculptures in Thuja

Jan Kalserud

DC 3 1999
Root of Thuya
French polish

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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Souiri no 1 (About Filali Mostafa)
 (GEOFFREY BILLET PHOTOGRAPHY Feb 11, 2020 )