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By this exhibition, Sami Ftouh takes artwork fans on a journey between land and sea, between sky and sea. His characters glide, fly, swim by his work, as if attempting to flee in the direction of different worlds.
Mr. Ftouh approaches the literals as “traces which separate the land from the ocean in its symbolic dimension”, and every of his work is meant to be a protracted adventurous journey, an odyssey, to satisfy the Different and in the hunt for your self, defined Mr. Ftouh, in an announcement to MAP, on the event of the opening of his exhibition.
“The ocean embodies hope, expertise, openness to different worlds,” he mentioned. And the artist continues: “Each time I discover myself in entrance of the ocean, the shoreline speaks to me. It tells me the tales of those individuals carried by the need to cross the shoreline, to seek out themselves elsewhere. However as soon as on the opposite facet, the identical melancholy and the identical nostalgia overtake them, and need to return house, so the right here and there’s a nice line that I attempt to dissect by this exhibition.
Serene and in soothing colours, the work within the “Awakening of the Coast” exhibition don’t bear titles, except just a few. On this level, Mr. Ftouh explains: “I search for a magnificence of labor that’s particular to me to transmit it to others. I externalize my concepts concerning the world, however I solely give just a few clues, icons and symbols, to disclose what I didn’t dare to say.
Born in Kenitra in 1961, Sami Ftouh has quite a few particular person and group exhibitions to his credit score.
This self-taught artist who started his journey with plastic artwork round thirty years in the past, we learn on a presentation word for the exhibition, makes the canvas a software for understanding the world by deepening his analysis on what he calls “the pictorial image”, in different phrases the aim and that means of the plastic work.
Sami Ftouh revealed, in 2010, a set of poems in Arabic entitled “Promise on the Wing of a Chicken”. For him, poetry and portray share the identical essence, that of a mirror reflecting the world by the artist’s eye.
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