Arab presences Modern Art and Decolonisation Paris, 1908-1988 - Exhibition catalog
MX026511
€ 40
WRITTEN IN FRENCH
During the 20th century, with the establishment of "French-style" schools of Fine Arts as an academic model, from Damascus to Baghdad, via Cairo and Algiers, many artists from these large cities attempted to emerge. Thanks to scholarships, most stay in Paris and some settle there. Others experience multiple itineraries, between national destinies and art in exile, momentary or perpetual transits.
A center of cosmopolitan but marginal modernity was thus formed in Paris, the history of which this work reveals, from 1908 to 1987, in four large chronological chapters striving to recount the trajectories of more than a hundred artists from different countries. Arab or North African (Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Syria and Tunisia).
Bringing together a large number of works and archival documents, this work aims to map all of these exchanges between Paris and Arab modernities and to revive a history of art that has until now been very poorly documented.
Exhibition at the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris from 5 April to 25 August 2024
