OFF _ Tmecha Fel Medina, le parcours et l'exposition _ Dar Moulay Ali, Marrakech
06.10.2017 – 31.12.2017
Supported by the city of Marrakech, the Montresso* Foundation presented in July 2017, in collaboration with Awaln’art and the French Institute of Marrakech, the project Tmecha Fel Medina.
It is a artistic and cultural course, inspired by places, tales, legends and stories of life. Jace paced the medina, accompanied by many children and intrigued inhabitants. He realized fifteen murals from the Mellah to the Sidi Youb square.
CULTURAL SEASON 2018-2019
Montresso* Art Space
XXL #3 - MOHAMED SAID CHAIR, POES & SKUNKDOG
20.04.2019 – 30.06.2019
XXL is annual artistic event on the thematic of monumentality. For its third edition, it reveals the surprising worlds of Mohamed Said Chair, Poes and Skunkdog. Born from a desire to confront artists with the exercise of the oversize, XXL thus offers, beyond a purely formal form of experimentation, the freedom to make each of their writings exist in all their expansive potential.
Jardin Rouge - Residency project presentation
DIVINES MASCARADES - DOMINIQUE ZINKPE
23.03.2019 – 14.05.2019
Iconic sponsor of the first edition of the In-Discipline programme, Dominique Zinkpé takes us this season again into the mazes of his creation. The artist’s approach is complex and diverse. Far from confining himself to a plastic writing, it is through a multidisciplinary practice that his singular trait stands out: intimate, audacious, sometimes provoking.
Montresso* Art Space
IN-DISCIPLINE
25.02.2019 – 31.03.2019
IN-DISCIPLINE is an itinerant support program to creation and diffusion initiated by the Montresso* Art Foundation. For the second edition, the Montresso* Art Foundation invites five Ivorian artists Gopal Dagnogo, Joachil Silué, Pascal Konan, Armand Boua et Yéanzi. From exchanges and artistic discussions at Jardin Rouge, the artists residence of the Montresso* Art Foundation, IN DISCIPLINE was born at the heart of the Montresso* art space during the 1-54 Comtemporary African Art Fair in Marrakesh.
Hors les Murs
JONONE - ILLUMINER LE FUTUR
15.11.2018 – 15.02.2019
At the invitation of the Ministry of Culture and Communication, the artist JonOne created for the Kingdom of Morocco an original work that covers the tower of the National Library of the Kingdom of Morocco. This gigantic work of 300m2, the largest ever dared and painted by the artist, was unveiled on November 13, 2018.
On that occasion the National Foundation of Museums and the Mohammed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art are dedicating an exhibition to JonOne, with the support of the Montresso* Foundation* : « Illuminer le Futur ».
The exhibition will be open to the public at the Mohammed VI Museum in Rabat, from November 15, 2018 to February 15, 2019.
Jardin Rouge - Residency project presentation
CONDITIONS SUSPENSIVES - DAVID MESGUICH
10.12.2018 – 30.01.2019
The Montresso* Art foundation and the artist David Mesguich present the exhibition « Conditions Suspensives » from December 8, 2018 to January 30, 2019 at the artistic residence Jardin Rouge, Marrakech.
After several residencies at Jardin Rouge, David Mesguich presents a work begun almost two years ago that questions our relation to the public space, through which he offers a variety of all the nuances of his research on volume. By transcending the limits of the medium, David Mesguich shows us all the resources of his work.
Montresso* Art Space
SIBERIA - Hendrik BEIKIRCH
05.11.2018 – 31.12.2018
The Montresso* Art Foundation presents with the German artist Hendrik Beikirch the Siberia project. The exhibition SIBERIA will take place at the Montresso* Art Space in November 2018.
“The story of a country is always told best by the faces of its people. For the Siberian series, I am trying to convey singular stories by individuals, as if it is a narration… The end goal is that these individual stories reflect on the essence and soul of this country’s extended region.” Hendrik Beikirch
OFF-SITE
URBAN MEMORIES - KATRE
La CONSERVERIE, Marrakech
29.11.2018 – 22.12.2018 November 29 to December 22, 2018
As part of the professional meetings « Art and town planning: rethinking the city – African expertise » at the invitation of Awaln’art, the Montresso* Art Foundation presents the project for the exit of residence « URBAN MEMORIES » by artist Katre. Katre immersed for two months and explored the industrial district of Marrakech to discover and to show us these abandoned places. Its « Urban Memories » exhibition aims to create an urban walk around the walls of the Conserverie, through the trompe-l’œil artefact, in order to unveil the multiple memories of the places and people who worked in the district and the factories.
Jardin Rouge - Residency project presentation
Architectures inachevées - Roxane Daumas
15.10.2018 – 30.11.2018
The Montresso* Art Foundation presents the project of Roxane DAUMAS “Architectures Inachevées” (Unfinished architectures) at the helmets’ salon of the artists residency Jardin Rouge.
« Architectures Inachevées” (Unfinished architectures) is the continuation of a plastic research on fluttering territories. Roxane Daumas focused on an unfinished hotel since six years in Marrakech. Decayed by time, stigmata of an era of uncontrolled real estate speculation, these concrete skeletons have become temples, witnesses, and a paradigm of our contemporary inconsistencies.
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