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“One of the most important Moroccan artists since the Second World War”: this high if very specific praise goes to Mohamed Kacimi, whose works have now come to Marseille’s Mucem.
At heart, the Mucem is a museum of the Mediterranean, and all the great civilizations that emerged there. This means the Mucem can cross the traditional boundary between European/Western art and “everything else”.
Take for example Mohamed Kacimi’s new, self-titled exhibition. Mohamed Kacimi speaks to the relationship between North African and European art, regions which after all shore a Mediterranean shore. With earthy colours, thick pastes, and black-and-white photography, everything from the indigenous to the modern can be seen in Kacimi’s art.
In hosting him, the Mucem is celebrating a Mediterranean tradition which is very much alive and kicking. One of the questions of the exhibition is how this post-war artist relates to the continuing innovations in his region’s art: his works are both contemporary and historical.
Past and present, European and African: this exhibition is all about binaries. That leaves it wide open to you to interpret how far they hold, and how far they break.
MuCEM (Musée des Civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée)
7 Prom. Robert Laffont, 13002 Marseille
Mohammed Kacimi vers 1993-1994. © Archives Kacimi / design graphique Spassky Fischer
Portrait de Mohammed Kacimi Archives Kacimi © Archives Kacimi
Sans titre, 1993, Atelier de l'artiste ©Atelier de l'artiste
Sans titre, Atelier de l'artiste© Atelier de l'artiste
Sans titre, non daté Atelier de l'artiste ©Atelier de l'artiste
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11:00 - 19:00
- Tuesday:
- Closed
- Wednesday:
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11:00 - 19:00
- Thursday:
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11:00 - 19:00
- Friday:
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11:00 - 19:00
- Saturday:
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11:00 - 19:00
- Sunday:
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11:00 - 19:00