Faouzi Laatiris
| Ein sex anaa gender | male  |
|---|---|
| Country wey e be citizen | Morocco |
| Name wey dem give am | Faouzi |
| Ein date of birth | 1958 |
| Place dem born am | Imilchil |
| Native language | Berber |
| Languages edey speak, rep anaa sign | Arabic, Berber |
| Ein occupation | artist |
Faouzi Laatiris (dem born am 1958, insyd Imilchil, Morocco), be an artist wey dey live den dey work insyd Tétouan den Martil, insyd Morocco.
Biography
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He be a graduate of de Institut National des beaux-arts insyd 1983 den de École des beaux-arts insyd Bourges (France) insyd 1989, he cam turn a professor for de Tétouan INBA, wer na he found de workshop Volume et installation in 1993 – a key period wer ein artistic production cam turn inseparable from ein educational commitment.
He be honored make he contribute to training chaw artists of de Tétouan generation: Safâa Erruas, Batoul S’Himi, Younès Rahmoun, Mohssin Harraki den Mustapha Akrim. Ein collaboration plus Jean-Louis Froment for de collective exhibition L'Objet désorienté au Maroc, for de Museum of Decorative Arts insyd Paris insyd 1999, dem recognize as a milestone insyd de history of contemporary trans-Mediterranean art.
For de crossroads between sculpture, installation, performance den public space, Faouzi Laatiris dey develop an aesthetic of hybridization, wey dey echo de urban building site den southern economies insyd globalization since de 1990s. Ein works wan go to de very edge of cultural schizophrenia, wey dey defy visual bombs between dema form den function, between systems of more anaa less industrial production, système D (dey get by) den de poetics of ruin.
Na dem show Faouzi Laatiris, among oda venues, for de Biennale de Dakar (Senegal) insyd 2002, for L'appartement 22 (2005) for doual'art (Douala, Cameroon) insyd 2006, for de gallery Fatma Jellal insyd Casablanca (Morocco) insyd 2009, for de Istanbul Biennale (Turkey) insyd 2011, for de Marrakech Biennale (Morocco) insyd 2009 -curate by Abdellah Karroum- den for de Palais des Beaux-Arts insyd Brussels (Belgium) insyd 2012, for de Arab World Institute insyd Paris (France) den for de MuCEM insyd Marseille (France) insyd 2014.
Bibliography
[edit | edit source]- Al Huffington Post. (2016). La carte blanche de Faouzi Laatiris au MMVI. [online] Available at: (Accessed 21 November 2016).
- Weigant, S. (2016). Musée Mohammed VI, VOLUMES FUGITIFS : Faouzi Laatiris et l'Institut national des beaux-arts de Tétouan l'école doit revendiquer sa nature de laboratoire des matières, des idées, des sensations". Available at: [1] (Accessed 21 November 2016).
- Vinay, A. (2016): Exposition : Volumes Fugitifs : Faouzi Laatiris et l'Institut National des Beaux-Arts de Tétouan. IISMM. [2]
- L'Observateur du Maroc & Afrique. (2016). Faouzi Laatiris expose ses " Volumes fugitifs " au Musée Mohammed VI. [online] Available at: [3] Archived 17 January 2018 at the Wayback Machine (Accessed 21 November 2016).
- Montazam, M. (2016) Volumes Fugitifs – Faouzia Laatiris et l'INBA de Tétouan, 2016 edited by Kulte in 90 degrés, Casa-factori, France 1997
- Pensa, Iolanda (Ed.) 2017. Public Art in Africa. Art et transformations urbaines à Douala /// Art and Urban Transformations in Douala. Genève: Metis Presses. ISBN 978-2-94-0563-16-6
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