Painter Mohamed Mourabiti exhibits his recent works at art gallery L'Atelier 21, from March 4 to April 5, 2014.
Mourabiti contextualizes everyday facts by emphasizing their vulnerable nature. Art historian Maurice Arama defines the artist's approach in these terms in the preface to the exhibition catalog: “...This pictorial movement refuses complacency and artifice. Reality and imagination are structured through hard work. The dialogue that develops recognizes the conventions and convulsions of the present and their spiritual transcendence. The painter's brush intervenes, pursues, surveys or tackles both complacency and artifice. But what are Mourabiti's large, flat brushstrokes tracking, if not life and the contortions that give rise, here and there, to the hope of renewal? Black, gray, hesitant blues and temperate browns cover or accompany the sleepless nights of our lives....Spirituality and sensuality are both present in Mourabiti's paintings. Form bursts forth. Passions and color disdain existential theories and render sensations in brutal or tragic strokes.”