المنظر الأساسي

فنانون معاصرون في مواجهة البيئة

Essentiel Paysage (Essential Landscape)

Artistes contemporains face à l’environnement (African Contemporary Artists facing the Environment)

Curator : Brahim Alaoui

Essentiel Paysage has been presented at MACAAL on the occasion of COP 22 in November 2016. Curated by Brahim Alaoui, it brings together nearly forty African artists whose works explore the relationship between humankind and nature in the face of environmental and sustainable development challenges. Through a route structured around five thematic sections — Nature Told, The Tree of Life, Man and the Sea, Recycle / Resist and Nature in the Making — the exhibition highlights, through powerful visual metaphors, the interdependence between humans, plant life and animals, as well as the challenges posed by climate change and the exploitation of natural resources. The exhibition’s title, inspired by a work by Aimé Césaire, underlines the importance of landscape and the natural imagination in African artistic creation.

Essentiel Paysage - Exhibition views

Participating artists

Leila Alaoui – Joël Andrianomearisoa – Mustapha Azeroual – Sammy Baloji – Farid Belkahia – Mohamed Ben Allal - Hicham Berrada – Abdelmalik Berkhiss – Amani Bodo – Pierre Bodo – Chéri Chérin – Calixte Dakpogan – Abdellah El Atrach – Mohamed El Baz – Mounir Fatmi – Mawi Mazgabu Gera – John Goba – Romuald Hazoumè - Ahmed Louardighi – Gonçalo Mabunda – Abu Bakarr Mansaray – Baya Mahieddine – Najia Mehadji – Moké – Mohamed Melehi – Fabrice Monteiro – Mohamed Mourabiti – Moataz Nasr – Khalil Nemmaoui – Richard Onyango Nyaba – Leon Ouedraogo – Yazid Oulab – Younes Rahmoun – Abbés Saladi
Chéri Samba – Zineb Sedira – Mohamed Tabal – Pascale Marthine Tayou – Barthélemy Toguo – Abderrahim Yamou – Billie Zangewa