Moroccan Trilogy 1950-2020

Description

Tent. Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (MNCARS), 31-03-2021, 27-09-2021. - Publication is a sweeping survey of the culture of Morocco from the 1950s to the present day in a unique collaboration with Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art – Qatar Museums and Qatar Foundation. The exhibition looks at modern and contemporary art and culture in Morocco’s major urban centres including Tangier, Tetouan and Casablanca, from the immediate post-independence period of the 1950s to the pre-revolutions era of the new millennia. The show features more than 250 works by 60 artists, including a series of important works from the collection of Mathaf, as well as archival material drawn from private and public collections. The exhibition also premieres or re-activates a number of works, and includes several new commissions. Divided into three chapters, historical timeframes defined by major societal shifts, the exhibition examines the interdisciplinary domains of art, literature, film, architecture, theatre and music and their personal and professional networks. Each chapter of the trilogy is intended to provide a non-exhaustive historical reading of these diverse, interconnected forms of expression, both intellectual and artistic, the generations of artists and their relationship to socio-political struggles for freedom. Through artwork, archives, and publications, this exhibition provides a new expanded framework for reading art histories in Morocco that is non-linear, transnational, and political.