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Published on 2024-03-27 11:09:15
As part of the collective exhibition “Autohistoria” scheduled at the Beaux-Arts de Paris from April 24 to June 30, 2024, the work of Mohamed Azouzi will be unveiled alongside renowned artists such as Rembrandt and Francisco de Goya.
The late artist-painter Mohamed Azouzi’s work will be exhibited in France. It will be presented at the collective exhibition named “Autohistorias” at the Beaux-Arts de Paris from April 24 to June 30, 2024. It should be noted that the work of this well-known and recognized artist will be revealed alongside artists such as Rembrandt and Francisco de Goya, as well as other groups of artists from the 15th to the 21st century who have used the self as a way to tell history, shape political allegory, and use narrative as a means of emancipation.
“The exhibition presents a group of self-fabulists, chimeras, beautiful liars, chingadas, and bad girls who navigate complexity with a literary flair, aesthetic clarity, and performative memory. Fiction, autobiography, and speculation become tools to compose a narrative and collective memory, an individuality not guided by absolutes but by ambiguities,” reads a presentation note. According to the same source, “Autohistorias” is inspired by Gloria Anzaldúa, a Chicana feminist theorist, activist, and poet. “In an unpublished text, the exhibition proposes writing as a way to define oneself through theory, fiction, mythologies, linguistic games, and poetry.
Through individual stories and fiction, the aim is to construct a collective narrative, conceived as an alternative tool to dominant narratives.” Self-portraits, hybrid collages, invented languages, parallel worlds made of personal stories, and intimate archives are presented through this exhibition.
About Mohamed Azouzi
Career: Mohamed Azouzi was born in Casablanca in 1946. He chose to study visual arts in 1967 at the School of Fine Arts in Casablanca and then at the National School of Decorative Arts and Fine Arts at the Sorbonne University in Paris. In 1977, he obtained a superior diploma in visual arts and mural painting from the School of Fine Arts in Paris. The artist has exhibited in several galleries and institutions in Casablanca, Tokyo, Moscow, New York, Paris, and Rabat. His works are present in collections including those of the Museum of Modern Art in the city of Paris, Paris, and Pantin. The artist reifies scenes of daily life by interpreting the ordinary. His ochre chromatic compositions recall the tones of his native land. The forms testify to the awakening of a memory and suggest the lines of traditional architecture. The artist does not distrust signs and engages in a semiotics of the senses. After a long battle against illness, Mohamed Azouzi passed away in France in August 2022 while preparing his exhibition in Morocco.
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