Ahmed Cherkaoui (1934-1967) Bunte Abstraktion (Colourful Abstraction) ,1960
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Property from a private collection, UAE
A prominent modernist artist in North Africa, Ahmed Cherkaoui drew on a spectrum of signs, colours and shapes derived from the folk art and national heritage of Morocco. The calligraphy he learned at Quranic school and his mother's traditional Amazigh tattoos that he encountered at a young age both formed part of his artistic visual language. Later in his artistic career he was heavily influenced by artists such as Roger Bissière and Paul Klee, and the Art Informel movement.
After studying graphics at the École des Metiers d'Art de Paris from 1956 to 1959, Cherkaoui spent a year at Warsaw's Academy of Fine Arts in 1961 and held his first solo show in Paris at the Atelier de Lucienne Thalheimer. Cherkaoui used a range of materials that included surfaces such as burlap. His attention to tactility, colour, line and shape hint at the essential elements of different sign systems. He has had group and solo exhibitions in France, Sweden, Belgium, Spain, Morocco, Tunisia including retrospectives at the Institut du Monde Arabe and the Salon de Mai in Paris.
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