Mohamed Melehi

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Mohamed Melehi
محمد المليحي
Melehi interviewed on 24 May 2019
Born(1936-11-12)12 November 1936
Asilah, Morocco
Died28 October 2020(2020-10-28) (aged 83)
Boulogne-Billancourt, France
MovementCasablanca school

Mohammed Melehi (

Arabic: محمد المليحي; 12 November 1936 – 28 October 2020) was a Moroccan painter associated with the Casablanca school, a modernist art movement active in the 1960s in Morocco.[1][2][3]

Early life

Melehi was born

Minneapolis School of Art instead.[4] He then received a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship and attended Columbia University in New York (1962–1964).[2][4]

Time Square (1963)

Career

Melehi became a professor at the School of Fine Arts of Casablanca, teaching painting, sculpture, and photography (1964 - 1969).[2] At the time, the school was directed by Farid Belkahia, with whom Melehi would form the Casablanca school movement.[5] He died in Paris.

Exposition-Manifeste

In 1969, Melehi and his colleagues of the Casablanca school, including Farid Belkahia, Mohamed Chabâa, Mohamed Ataallah, Mohamed Hamidi and Mustapha Hafid organized an exposition-manifeste, or protest exhibition, entitled Présence plastique.[6][7] The artists displayed their works in Jemaa el-Fnaa in the Marrakesh medina, snubbing an official Moroccan art salon of happening at the same time.[6] This exhibition is regarded as the founding moment of modernism in Morocco.[7]

"We took a position against the government", Melehi said in an interview with The Guardian, "Our works were in Jemaa el-Fnaa square for a week, exposed to the sun and wind. It was an ideological message about what art could be."[6]

Death

Melehi died at the Ambroise Paré Hospital in Boulogne-Billancourt near Paris at the age of 84 a few days after being infected with COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in France.[3]

References

  1. ^ "محمد المليحي". www.encyclopedia.mathaf.org.qa. Retrieved 2020-10-28.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Mohammed Melehi". www.encyclopedia.mathaf.org.qa. Retrieved 2020-10-28.
  3. ^ a b "Covid-19: décès à Paris de l'artiste marocain Mohamed Melehi". Le Desk. Retrieved 2020-10-28.
  4. ^ a b "Third Text". thirdtext.org. Retrieved 2022-03-03.
  5. ^ "Give us a swirl: How Mohamed Melehi became Morocco's modernist master". the Guardian. 2019-04-12. Retrieved 2020-10-28.
  6. ^ a b c "Give us a swirl: How Mohamed Melehi became Morocco's modernist master". the Guardian. 2019-04-12. Retrieved 2020-10-30.
  7. ^ a b "Expo: Hamidi, un artiste affranchi". L'Economiste (in French). 2020-01-08. Retrieved 2020-10-30.


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