L’Atelier 21 art gallery presents My Maroc Stars, an exhibition of recent work by leading contemporary artist Hassan Hajjaj. Here, the artist pays tribute to Morocco’s nascent yet dynamic cultural stage. The art critic and academic Youssef Wahboun explains, “Hassan Hajjaj’s work is a fusion between the past and the contemporary era, western and oriental standards, […]
Celebrated Malian photographer Malick Sidibé died on April 14. Affectionately called the “Eye of Bamako” for his social reportage in Mali, he is best known for his black-and-white studies of popular culture in Bamako. Sidibé was born in 1935 into a Peul family in a small village in Soloba, and graduated from school in 1952. […]
By Hassan Hajjaj is a short collection of critical essays on the life and work of the acclaimed artist. Edited by Katia Hadidian, it comes as a sequel to Dakka Marrakesh, written 6 years earlier on Hajjaj in 2008. The two volumes are noticeably different; while the latter features an interview by Juliet Cestar about the artists’s hopes […]