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Ahmed Cherkaoui (1934-1967)
Professions: Painter
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Ahmed CHERKAOUI (1934-1967) COMPOSITION ABSTRAITE, 1962 Technique mixte sur gaze contrecollée sur panneau
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AHMED CHERKAOUI (1934-1967) UNTITLED. Mixed media
Ahmed Cherkaoui Biography
(b Boujad, 2 Oct 1934; d Casablanca, 17 Aug 1967). Moroccan painter. He studied in Paris at the Ecole des Métiers d’Art from 1956 to 1959 and in 1960 enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. During this period he also had his first solo exhibition, at the Atelier Lucienne Thalheimer in Paris (1959). In 1961 he received a scholarship to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw for one year and while there exhibited work at the Krzywe Kolo Gallery. On returning to Paris, he began to research the signs and motifs of Moroccan art with a bursary from UNESCO. These studies inspired his paintings, which he continued to exhibit regularly in one-man shows in Casablanca, Paris, Rabat, Tangiers and Karlstad, Sweden. He also exhibited work at numerous group exhibitions, including the Salon de Mai, Paris. In his early paintings he was inspired by the art of Klee and Roger Bissière, and he worked on small collages of jute, a technique that Klee had used. From 1962, however, his paintings, which were essentially abstract, increasingly explored motifs from Moroccan art, especially from tattooing, pottery, jewellery, weaving and leatherwork. At the same time he continued to experiment with colour. Until 1965 he mainly used combinations of dark colours, in paintings such as Porte Fath (1964; priv. col., see Sijelmassi, p. 121); after 1965 his colours became lighter and more luminous, and a greater sense of space entered his work, as in Le Diwan (1966; priv. col., see Sijelmassi, p. 118). In addition to oil, he also worked in gouache and watercolour.
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