“These American painters, whose works are exhibited for the first time in Africa, are close friends, so much so that they have become members of the same family», declared the organizers of this exhibition, entitled “Travel Diaries”, which has just opened at the Mohammed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art.
Mehdi Qotbi, president of the National Foundation of Museums (FNM), was over the moon as he inaugurated the opening of the exhibition, affirming that the Mohammed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art had enriched its track record with this American exhibition, after having hosted the creations of numerous plastic arts celebrities from various European, South American, African and Arab backgrounds, without forgetting the works of great Moroccan visual artists.
The 27 works presented in Rabat, selected by Vito Schnabel, son of Julian Schnabel, “highlight the influence of the different destinations discovered during their travels, in search of new iconographic and discursive horizons», Explains the event commissioner.
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Vito Schnabel adds: “It is with pleasure and an extraordinary privilege that I present here in Rabat an exhibition of four artists with whom I have been closely linked throughout my life (…) The distinctive qualities of their works show that painting and sensitivity can coexist through dialogue, despite apparent aesthetic differences, resonating together like voices in a choir.»
According to the exhibition documentation, ““Travel Diaries” is an invitation to enter the unique universe of each of these artists, to discover their approaches, their inspirations and their questions.“. The exhibition will last until October. Not to miss.
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