The Colorful Waves Generated by Mohamed Melehi and the Casablanca Art School

Naomi Polonsky | Hyperallergic | 11th June 2019

Hard-edged abstraction, as Frank Stella conceived it, was macho. Melehi, part of the same New York circle in the early 60’s, saw something different – a resonance with “the abstraction inherent in Islamic art.” Back in Morocco he pioneered an aesthetic that married abstraction with Berber craft motifs. A new chapter in the culture of independent Morocco had begun.