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\nBorn : 1963 in Chiadma<\/p>\n
Regragui Bouslai was born in 1963 in Chiadma, along the coastal stretch north of Essaouira. He never attended an art school. His visual vocabulary was formed where he grew up, out of stories told aloud, seasonal festivals and the ceremonies that structure life in the countryside. Painting came later, as a way of holding on to all of it.<\/p>\n
His canvases are worlds crowded with presences. Animals gather by the dozen, tangled together until they cover the surface entirely; elsewhere hybrid figures \u2014 half human, half beast \u2014 stand shoulder to shoulder. Nothing is ever alone: every creature depends on its neighbours. Behind them one senses the Atlantic countryside of his childhood \u2014 argan trees, red earth, wild flowers \u2014 carried over as colour and movement rather than described.<\/p>\n
Bouslai belongs to the group of self-taught Essaouira artists first shown in the late 1980s, now one of the most recognisable chapters in Moroccan art. His work has travelled to France, Denmark, Switzerland and Spain, and has been presented at the Marrakech Biennale, at MACAAL and at the Institut Fran\u00e7ais in Tangier. His pieces are held in private and institutional collections across Europe. BLOC 9 is pleased to present him in Casablanca.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
: Maroc N\u00e9(e) : 1963 \u00e0 Chiadma Regragui Bouslai est n\u00e9 en 1963 \u00e0 Chiadma, sur la bande c\u00f4ti\u00e8re qui s’\u00e9tend au nord d’Essaouira. Il n’est pass\u00e9 par aucune \u00e9cole d’art. Sa culture visuelle s’est form\u00e9e sur place, au contact des contes entendus, des moussems et des c\u00e9r\u00e9monies qui rythment l’ann\u00e9e rurale. La peinture est […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"helpie_faq_category":[133],"helpie_faq_group":[651],"class_list":["post-13626","helpie_faq","type-helpie_faq","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","helpie_faq_category-uncategorized-faq","helpie_faq_group-artiste-regragui-bouslai","entry","owp-thumbs-layout-horizontal","owp-btn-normal","owp-tabs-layout-horizontal","has-no-thumbnails","has-product-nav"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n