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Abderrahmane OUARDANE (1947) Artiste Contemporain - Collection 2020 2021 - De formation " Beaux-Arts Thur Paris", d'influence Moderniste " École ...

Abderrahmane OUARDANE (1947)
                  Artiste Contemporain
De formation « Beaux-Arts Thur Paris», d’influence Moderniste
                 « École de Casablanca »

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ICONOGRAPHY OF CONTEMPORARY WORK
             SELECTION 2020 – 2021

 Abderrahmane Ouardane is an established artist living in
 Casablanca. He works between Morocco and France. His
   works have been exhibited internationally: in France,
  Morocco, Netherlands, Senegal, Mali, Egypt, Tunisia, the
    United States, Canada, Monaco, Luxembourg, etc.

 In his figurative compositions and lyrical abstractions, the
painter frees the gesture, letting unfold singular landscapes
   with pictorial and aesthetic narratives transcribing his
                 memories and imaginations.

  "My work as an artist is inspired by spiritual practices,
   intuitive imaginations and research into the deep and
   transversal evils that mark our contemporary world."
                         OUARDANE

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PRESENTATION OF THE ARTIST

Abderrahmane OUARDANE
31/03/1947 Casablanca Morocco
Living artist

Biography
Abderrahmane OUARDANE, artist born in 1947 in Morocco. Laureate of the Ateliers Beaux-Arts THUR in Paris, he has exhibited regularly since 1970.
He lives in Casablanca and works between Morocco and France.
His friendships with the pupils of the effervescent Academy of Fine Arts "l'EW cole de Casablanca" which brings together trans-Mediterranean
modernists such as BELKAHIA*, MELIHI, CHABAZ A, have allowed him to sharpen extremely rich creative experiences always in a spirit of renewal.
70'- 80's: At the Ateliers des Beaux-Arts THUR in Paris, Abderrahmane OUARDANE learns to draw the human body. He devoted his \irst exhibitions to
the theme of the artistic nude. OUARDANE erects its creations in a real plea dedicated to women.
80' - 90's: Back in Morocco, his spiritual retreats in the Amazigh High Atlas, precisely on the highlands of Imilchil, represent a decisive stage of his
artistic imprint. The timeless silhouettes he encounters there; all the treasures of signs, symbols and traces of heritage inspire him, awaken his memory,
profoundly in\luence his creations and give birth to his singular imprint.
90's – Contemporary Period: His attendance at artistic residencies is multiplying around the world and allowing him to multiply creative experiences.
His career path leads him to Contemporary Art. His creations bear a very atypical and diversi\ied imprint between painting, sculpture, installation and
performance. His art draws its source from the intangible heritage in a context of mutations between historical past and present or futuristic reality,
oscillating according to the consistency of the energies that cross it, whether social, political, poetic; normative, constructive or dissenting.
* This year 2021, at the Centre Pompidou, in Paris, under the direction of Michel Gauthier, a posthumous retrospective was dedicated to BELKAHIA,
essential artist of the postcolonial age and protagonist of the "Casablanca School", Jigurehead of artistic modernity, generational colleague of OUARDANE.

Presentation of the artist's work
The artist's work is inspired by spiritual practices, intuitive imaginations and research on deep and transversal issues related to the rapid changes in
our contemporary globalized societies, the artist asks for the urgency to safeguard the memory and intangible heritage of peoples. Synchronous with
his meditation work, the painter operates a pictorial and aesthetic narrative transcribing on the canvas a missive of his memory between past, present
and future and his diasporic imaginaries, threads of the work.
The artist's mission invests a \ield of research that develops in the contemporary visual imagination in resonance with the rest of the world, with in the
background the need for transmission, rede\inition of history and memory by taking care to make tangible an emancipated future carried by new
perceptions.
The whole issue of OUARDANE's creative eruption lies in his desire for a real emancipation from the models and mechanisms of contemporary societies
and the need to open the \ields of representation in order to change perceptions from the root.
What the work teaches us is the possibility of giving meaning, imagining an experience and seeking the cultural, urban, social and human progress of a
segment of diasporic history that can help us to understand the present and re\lect on the future and contribute to transmitting a testimony of
importance for future generations.

Field of artistic research / approach and creative process:
The artist diversi\ies forms, innovates techniques, symbolism: painting, material, collage; OUARDANE plays with plural plastics and declines textures
between transparency and opacity. The material is an alchemy of composition inspired by nature and the terroir, mixing oil paint, natural pigments and
a whole alloy of powders, sands, \lowers and bark from Morocco.
A tireless traveler in the mapping of memory, the artist travels through an ancestral world in search of identity and transcribes his journey according to
gesture and imagination. Each creation is a labyrinthine composition of his memory. He revisits the spaces suspended between forgetfulness and
reminiscence, between re\lection and meditation, at the truce where sacred signs, roots, symbols, rhythms and myths intertwine.
Lyrical abstraction, colors and landscapes from solar decomposition, bursting of forms, suspension, drawn from the light of its roots. The work is a
singular study of the plural artistic heritage and an imprint that embodies a belt of his contemporary production. Abderrahmane OUARDANE's work
revolves around a visual dialogue that re\lects the evolution, diversity and vitality of his creation, from genesis to contemporaneity. The \ield of
representation of the work is inscribed through a central axis that is based on re\lection on identity in the speci\ic context of our contemporary
societies. The artist offers his own experience to illustrate his personal history and inscribes it in the great History of the cultural effervescence of
Modern and Contemporary Art.

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MAJOR EXHIBITIONS OF THE ARTIST

•              Personnelle(s)
1980 Galerie 88, Casablanca.
1981 Hô tel Mé ridien, Mohammedia.
1982 Galerie Nadar, Casablanca.
1983 La Mamounia, Marrakech.
1987 Hô tel De Fè s, Fè s.
2001 Hammate, Tunis.
2003 Galerie Bab El Kebir, Rabat.
2004 Espace Darna Le Comptoir, Marrakech.
2005 "Traces De Femme" Galerie Art Et Architecture, Casablanca.
2006 "Le Cercle", Galerie Le Chevalet, Casablanca.
2009 Galerie Municipale Antibes - Nice France.
2010 Exposition Galerie Venise Cadre Casablanca, Thè me "Griffes De Lumiè re".
2010 Exposition Galerie Bab Rouah, Rabat.
2010 Exposition " Maroc, Lumiè res De Cré ation " Al La Galerie Moné gasque "L'entrepô t", Espace Culturel Al Monaco.
2014 Exposition "Zoom Sur Abderrahmane Ouardane" Galerie Ambre, Casablanca. 2014 Galerie Palace Fahd Dakar. Sé né gal.
2017 Dar Al Maghribia, Montré al, Canada.
2019 Galerie Fondation Alphadi. Niamey, Niger.
2021 Galerie 01- So\itel Casablanca Tour Blanche.

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•            Collective(s)
1970 Salon Des Artistes Indé pendants, Casablanca, Maroc.                         2009 "Casa Art", Hommage Al La Ville De Casablanca, Forum Des Cultures.
1981 "Authenticité De L’art Pictural Au Maroc", Paris, France.                    2009 Exposition Artistique Dans Le Cadre De 1è re Rencontres Euromed,
                                                                                   Tournon-Sur-Rhô ne, France.
1982 Galerie Alif Ba, Casablanca. "Petits Formats De Grands Peintres Du
Maroc".                                                                 2009 Exposition "EW motions Partagé es" Al L’atelier Du Comité Moné gasque
1986 "Regard Sur L’atlas", Maison Du Maroc, Orlando, Usa.               De La Aiap De L’Unesco Al Monaco.

1989 "Itiné raires De La Cré ativité , Massir Wa Massar", Le Caire, EW gypte.   2009 Exposition "Langages Spirituels" Al Casablanca - Cathé drale Sacré
                                                                                   Cœur.
2000 Atelier Partage, Rencontre Entre Poè tes Et Plasticiens, Organisé e Par
L’Avaa, Casablanca.                                                            2009 Exposition Al La Galerie Des Associations, Antibes, Nice, France.

2001 "Rencontre Afrique Du Nord Moyen Orient" Tunis, Tunisie.                  2010 Exposition Al La Foire Internationale De L’art, Casablanca.

2002 Bab Rouah, Rabat, Exposition Sur Le Thè me "Partage".                        2010 Exposition "Mondiathè que" Sur Le Thè me "Journé e Internationale
                                                                                   Du Livre" Al Nouasseur.
2002 Galerie Art Et Architecture. Petits Formats.
                                                                                   2010 Exposition, Rencontre D’art Actuel, Azemmour, El Jadida (Mazagan).
2004 Galerie Venise Cadre, Casablanca.
                                                                                   2010 Exposition Artistique Al L’occasion De La Journé e De La Terre
2005 Fondation Ona, Casablanca. "Mois Du Patrimoine".                              (Anciens Abattoirs Casablanca).
2005 Villa Des Arts, Mois Du Patrimoine, Casablanca. "Figures De 2010 "L’art De Donner". Exposition En Faveur De La Ligue Marocaine De
L’abstraction".                                                                L’enfance. Casablanca.
2005 Arts In Marrakech : 1er Festival International D’art Et De Litté rature. 2010 Exposition Au Thé âtre Mohamed V Al Rabat.
2005 Université́ D’é té , Assilah, Maroc .                                  2010 Exposition Journé es Portes Ouvertes Al L'hô pital D'enfants Ibn Rochd
2005 Galerie Venise Cadre, Casablanca. "Formats Unis, Regards Croisé s ".     De Casablanca.
2007 Genap, Rabat : "Retour Al La Figuration".                                     2010 Exposition Artistique Al La Villa Des Arts Casablanca.
2007 Galerie Mé mo Arts, Casablanca. "Petits Formats, Grandes EW motions".        2010 Exposition Artistique Cathé drale Du Sacré Cœur, Sous Le Thè me
                                                                                   "Peintre De La Femme".
2007 Exposition Du Collectif "Al Lemma" En Hollande, Amsterdam.
                                                                                   2010 Galerie Bertucci Al Chaouen Sous Le Thè me "La Peinture EW mergente
2007 "Hommage Al Matisse", Galerie Liné art, Tanger.                              Au Maroc".
2008 "Peindre Aujourd’hui Au Maroc", El Jadida.                       2010 Faculté Des Sciences, Juridiques EW conomiques Et Sociales De Ain
2009 "Sacré s Signes", Forum Des Cultures, Cathé drale Sacré Cœur, Sebaa, Sous Le Thè me "Symboles Et Signes" Al L’occasion De La 5è me
Casablanca.                                                           EW dition De La Nuit Des Galeries.

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•            Collective(s) suite
2010 Expositions Artistiques "Marrakech Art".                                  2015 Exposition Artistique Al La Cathé drale Du Sacré Cœur, "Harmonia",
2010 Exposition "Rencontres Artistiques Franco-Marocaines" Al La Salle "L’art Au Service De L’environnement" (Organisateur : Association
De L’aiguiller Al Martigues, Marseille, France.                                Arkane).

2010 Exposition " Maroc, Lumiè res De Cré ation " Al La Galerie Moné gasque 2015 Exposition Artistique "Expression Pour Femme", Bibliothè que
                                                                               Nationale, Rabat.
"L'entrepô t", Espace Culturel Al Monaco.
2011 Exposition Artistique Al Pullman Mazagan Royal Golf, El Jadida.           2015 Exposition Artistique "Arkane Afrika" Al La Cathé drale Du Sacré Cœur
                                                                               De Casablanca, "Exposition Internationale Art Contemporain D’Afrique".
2011 Exposition Peinture Sur Sculpture De Chevaux, El Jadida
(Commissaire De L’exposition).                                                 2015 Exposition Al Bé zier, Montpellier, France.

2011 Exposition Artistique "4 El me EW dition Rencontres Mé diterrané ennes" 2016 Exposition Internationale Art Contemporain D’Afrique "Al L’é coute De
Tournon - Guilherand-Granges, France.                                          L’environnement" Al La Cop 22, Marrakech.

2012 Invité D'honneur A La Biennale De Dakar. Hô tel Mé ridien, Dakar, 2017 Exposition Art Contemporain "Au Service Du Patrimoine" Al La 2è me
Sé né gal.                                                                   EW dition "Les Journé es Du Patrimoine De Ait Ben Haddou", Ouarzazate.

2012 Exposition Artistique Al La Cathé drale Du Sacré Cœur, "EW cologie Art" 2016 Exposition Internationale D’art Contemporain Dans Le Cadre De La
Sous Le Thè me "Pré servation De L’environnement".                           19è me EW dition Du Festival Du Ciné ma Africain Al Khouribga.

2012 Exposition Sous Le Thè me "Les Chemins Des Domaines" Al 2017 Exposition Internationale D’art Contemporain Dans Le Cadre De La
Montpellier, Bé zier, France.                                                 20è me EW dition Du Festival Du Ciné ma Africain Al Khouribga.

2012 Biennale De Casablanca. Maroc .                                           2017 Exposition Artistique Internationale "Arkane Afrika" 3è me EW dition
                                                                               Sous Le Thè me "Citoyenneté́ Et Art Contemporain D’Afrique".
2012 Exposition Inauguration "Dar Al Maghrib" Al Montré al, Canada.           2017 Exposition A Dar Al Maghribia. Montré al, Canada
2013 Participation Au Festival International De Qué bec De Sculpture Sur
Neige. Canada.                                                                 2018 Arkane Afrika 4è me EW dition, Fondation Hassan II –Casablanca.

2013 Exposition Artistique Al La Cathé drale Du Sacré Cœur, Sous Le Thè me 2018 Arkane Afrika EW dition Spé ciale Al Dakhla En Concomitance Avec Le
"Afrique Rencontre Moyen Orient".                                              Fima (Festival International De La Mode D'afrique) Al Dakhla, Maroc Et Al
                                                                               Niamey, Niger, Avec Alphadi.
2013 Exposition Artistique, 3è me EW dition Du Festival "Jawhara", El Jadida.
                                                                               2019 Exposition Artistique "Arkane Afrika" 5è me EW dition Sous Le Thè me
2013 Exposition Artistique Al Dar Zagora, Marrakech.                           "Patrimoine D’Afrique Et Universalité́ De Son Art".
2013 Exposition Al La Rencontre "Dialogue & Cultures", Sè te, France. 2019 Installations Sur Le Thè me De L'environnement, Mazagan El Jadida,
2014 Exposition Artistique Al La Cathé drale Du Sacré Cœur, "Afrique Maroc
Rencontre Moyen Orient". Casablanca.                                   2019 Exposition A La Galerie Fondation Alphadi. Niamey, Niger.
2014 Exposition Al La "Morocco Solar Festival" Al Ouarzazate.          2020 Participation Al La Sé lection Internationale Luxembourg Art Price.
2014 Galerie Palace Fahd. Dakar, Sé né gal.
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•           Collectors
Palais Royal, Rabat, Maroc.
Ministè re De La Culture, Rabat, Maroc.
Musé e National De Rabat, Maroc.
Musé e Mohammed Vi D'art Moderne Et Contemporain Mmvi, Rabat Maroc.
Musé e De Marrakech, Maroc.
Fondation Ona, Casablanca, Maroc.
Fondation Ocp, Casablanca, Maroc.
Bank Al Maghrib, Casablanca, Maroc.
Fondation Sgmb, Casablanca, Maroc.
Mazagan, El Jadida, Maroc.
Banyan Tree Tamouda Bay, Fnideq, Maroc.
Autres Collectionneurs Internationaux privé s.

•           Gallery that represents artist
Formerly represented by the GVCC Gallery (Ex Venise Cadre), Casablanca.
Currently independent artist.

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Abderrahmane
OUARDANE

DE LA GENÈSE À
LA CONTEMPORANÉITÉ

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"IFRI" Acrylic on Canvas

Ifri is a deity, she symbolizes the sun goddess, protector of
the source and the home.
OUARDANE materializes his unspeakable emotion by the
sketch of an altiè re woman. Dressed in her drapery, adorned
with her prodigy turban, the goddess overlooks a universe
landlocked sometimes of mist, sometimes of light.

The goddess with the timeless body wanders through a
sublime landscape where water and \ire, heaven and earth
form a fertile alloy. For the painter, this Icon becomes a
language, that of an essential energy that crosses the ages.
Through the esoteric expression of the character, the painter
reconnects with roots and sacralizes symbol.

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«FEMME D'IMILCHIL» Acrylic on Canvas

OUARDANE materializes his fascination for Imilchil's wife by
                   sketching her \igure.
   The muse overlooks a dreamlike universe. Dressed in
    colorful drapery, adorned with her prodigy turban.

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"TRIPLETS OF CASABLANCA" Acrylic on Canvas, Mixed
Collage

Casablanca, the economic capital of Morocco, is a trendy
urban metropolis considered to be the great North African
Hub. An urban and trendy living environment that defines a
"life style" fantasized by several young women from the
countryside and remote mountains of the kingdom. But how
can the traditional woman dream of herself as a modern
woman without weaving a safety net between past, present
and future?

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"ORACLE" Acrylic on Canvas

The Oracle of the Atlas Mountains, with divinatory
clairvoyance, announces the prophecy of the
degeneration of the world of men. She glimpses the
anomaly: the destruction of the world caused by the
materialism of men, threatens balance and harmony on
Earth.

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"SACRIFICE" Acrylic on Canvas

Ancient indigenous peoples worshipped the moon and
the sun, to whom they offered sacri\ices. These are
ancestral beliefs and customs that were intended to
ward off fate. Like a language between the human and
the spirits. Today, some peoples remain attached to
these deep-rooted traditions. The ancients still speak of
the "ancient way of the ancestors" and still retain some
ancestral rites today.

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"TRACES OF AL-ANDALUS" Acrylic on Canvas

Splendors and nostalgia of Al-Andalus.
Al-Andalus, a region of Spain that was under the sovereignty
of the Moors from the eighth to the \ifteenth. During these
centuries of history, all the communities of the three
confessions cohabited side by side and gave birth to a
culture of coexistence, "the convivencia" which \inds one of
its most beautiful expressions in literature in Arabic,
Hebrew and Romance. In Al-Andalus, freedom of thought,
freedom of expression, integrity and intellectual creativity
are three essential characteristics of al-Andalus' original
intellectual creation. Scientists were philosophers,
mathematicians, doctors and practitioners, theologians,
judges and politicians. A bygone era when society was highly
developed compared to the rest of the world.

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"CONTEMPORARY IMPERIALS" Acrylic on Canvas and
Mixed Collage

Women, between past, present and future. Today, the
traditional woman has given way to a modern woman
who tries to combine the fundamentals of her traditions
with her modernity. Recently, women have begun to
create their space of freedom in order to \ight for their
hard-to-obtain rights within a traditionally patriarchal
society. These contemporary imperials are gaining
ground thanks to their struggle, they are gradually
enjoying their rights and have strong hopes for the
future. But is this acquired freedom valid for all the
Women of the World? What about the real living
conditions of the Woman, her wishes, her hopes, her
projects? It is important to note that despite all the
progress that has been made in the status of women,
this development is still ambiguous, because to date not
all women have yet taken possession of all their rights.
Women must be masters of their destiny; no matter
what their jails are, they have to steal the keys!
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"FINAL BOARDING" Acrylic on Canvas and Mixed Collage

Imilchil is a Berber village in northern Morocco where a
mythical tradition is held every year: the Moussem
d'Imilchil, an engagement festival. This traditional festival of
love, initially reserved for the natives of the surrounding
villages and peaks of the Atlas, now looks like a large folk
fair. From now on this gathering is a victim of mass tourism
and the "folklorization" of intangible heritage.

The work "Final Boarding" illustrates the abridged sketch of
an ancient muse, the traditional "Muse of Imilchil". In its
contemporary version, The Authentic Amazon is
reincarnated as a new age heroine. Yet, under her new
esoteric features, she seems disoriented. In a hurry to
modernize without a safety net of her orality, her identity,
nor her legend. The muse took off with no return.
From her genesis to her contemporaneity: final destination.

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«BESTIAIRE RUPESTRE» Acrylic on Canvas and Mixed
                     Collage

   The bestiary series evokes the early mastery of pictorial
  techniques and the creativity of the \igurations of the rock
      areas discovered in three distinct geographical and
bioclimatic domains, that is to say the chains of the Atlas, the
     Pre Sahara and the Moroccan Atlantic Sahara. Despite
    research on rock art in Morocco, the Moroccan Atlantic
Sahara and Mauritania, issues related to its classi\ication and
its relationship to its cultural context are not identi\ied in an
                            intact way.
 In the current state of knowledge, this area is characterized
  by the continuous succession, from north to south, of large
    rock areas, relayed by small stations. These areas have
known many traditions of parietal art creation. This implies
 that some sites include engravings or paintings from a wide
 variety of periods. This fact is found in the superposition of
  drawings belonging to the different categories of rock art.
   The importance of this rock art as an archaeological and
     historical source is considerable. It contributes to the
   reconstruction of prehistoric history and its settlement.
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"DROP OF FIRE ON BLUE WAVE" Acrylic on Canvas

    Over time, urbanization spreads, contributes to the
   degradation of nature and threatens all forms of life on
 earth. This work denounces the pollution of the Earth and
     oceans by humans, it particularly blames polluting
industries that release tons of toxic products and waste into
 the environment, as well as the massive urbanization that
 replaces green spaces and makes our cities gray and ugly.
  The seasons are no longer distinguishable. We live in an
               overrated and arti\icial world.

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«BAL MUSETTES» Acrylic on Canvas

The contemporary world is damaged by materialism to the
detriment of noble values related to the spirit. Yet it is these
spiritual values that give true meaning to our existence. The
sacred is at the heart of creation. Aesthetic experience \inds
its true essence in both otherness and interiority. The work
 of art is a transcendent, incorruptible and universal piece.

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"STARDUST" Acrylic on Canvas

  As recent research on the genealogy of the matter that
makes up us, our living beings and the entire solar system
 shows, 97% of our billions of billions of atoms come from
  the cosmos. We are therefore made up of atoms forged
through different cosmic events that have marked the 13.8
          billion years of history of the universe.
  We are all made up of "stardust". We are all one. We are
                           "ONE".

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"DREAMLIKE LANDSCAPE, COSMOS AND MOLECULES"
               Acrylic on Canvas

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FIMA SPECIAL SERIES (INTERNATIONAL FASHION
            FESTIVAL OF AFRICA)

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NAKED COLLECTION

"BLUE DIAMOND" Acrylic on Canvas
"NUDE WITH FLOWERS" Acrylic on Canvas

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NEW INSPIRATION - Collection ÉPURE

                         Summer2021.
 OUARDANE settles in his summer workshop "le buibui", a
   spartan and functional shed on the edge of the Atlantic
 Ocean. After a few days of seaside relaxation, far from the
      megalopolis, afternoons of reading, research and
  concentration, inspiration \inally blossoms. The painter
 stimulates the canvas and ventures in search of genius, on
the side of the meanders of his imagination. Ouardane gives
    his brushes and knives to an abstract art with chatty
pictoriality. Paci\ication of forms, purity of matter, quest for
   spirit, search for essence. Signs and symbols in organic
fusion are invited into the work. The light is in the shadows.
     A mystical breath permeates the work. The artist's
  experimental practice records his return to the spiritual
                             sphere.

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"PURITY" Acrylic on Canvas, Mixed Media

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•           Contact

-           PALME D’ART – Nada BENS
-           palmedart@gmail.com

•           Artist's Links
-           Artist Website : https://www.ouardane.com
-           Consult the artist's book "From Genesis to Contemporaneity", his
portfolio and collections, for a better understanding of his artistic imagination:
downloadable       materials      directly   from     the     artist's    website.
https://www.ouardane.com/illustration/

•           Website of the artist Abderrahmane OUARDANE
https://www.ouardane.com/

•           Instagram :
https://www.instagram.com/ouardane_art/

•          Youtube report:
https://youtu.be/vVaZpA_y6pA

DATE: September 2021
LOCATION: Antibes, France - Casablanca, Morocco

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