Biennale Art Contemporain

Program Symposium: 19 December 2008
10h00: opening of the symposium by Jean François Clement

Session 1: 10.30 - 12h 30
Title: Contemporary Art /: Recall the history / individual experiences
Speakers: Toni Maraini, Pauline de Mazieres, Nicole de Pontcharra, Abderrahman Benhamza,
Moderator: Nicole de Pontcharra

Session 2: 15h 16:30
Title: The Moroccan experience: Innovations and questions
Speakers: Fabrice Flahutez, Farid Zahi, Aziz Daki
Moderator: Mustapha Laarissa

Session 3: 16hh45 18H 45
Title: Relations between Morocco and the international art forums / openness, trade
Speakers: Mohammed Rachdi, Mustapha Laarissa, Ghita Triki
Moderator: Farid Zahi

ABDERRAHMAN BENHAMZA
Born in 1952 in Marrakech
Teaches art history at the College of Fine Arts in Casablanca, author of several collections of poems and stories, appearing in several poetry anthologies and literary dictionaries, Curator 5 5 United Arab Emirates Former editor of the journal Matrix arts.
Membership in the association of French-language writers Wednesday and overseas, Paris

Aziz Daki
University, author of a doctoral thesis on art critic Michel Leiris. He wrote many texts and three books on the visual arts in Morocco. He also officiated, as a curator at numerous exhibitions of contemporary art in Morocco and abroad

Nicole De Ponchara
French writer of Russian origin, born in Lyon, has lived in Marrakesh from 1945 to 1955. Lives in Puygiron in Drôme, France. She initiated travel and meetings of poets and artists of the Arab world and Europe, creating links between Morocco and France. En1985 commissioner is the first retrospective in France of Moroccan contemporary painting as part of the "artistic presence in Morocco" in Grenoble initiated by Pierre Gaudibert director of the Museum of Grenoble. She is the author of books, catalogs numerous forewords by contemporary artists. From 2002 to 2005, Commissioner of the International Salon du Livre de Tanger.

Fabrice Flahutez
Lecturer at the University of Paris Nanterre west and specialist in contemporary art. He was assigned by UNESCO to the expertise of the Museum of Contemporary Arts in Rabat in 2008. He has just published New World and New Myth.
Mutations of surrealism in American exile in absolute gap, Dijon, Polity Press,, 2007. He was also curator of the exhibition "Paris-Cyprus, the young art scene Cyprus" in 2008.

Mustapha Laarissa
Professor of Philosophy at the University Cadi Ayyad, a member of the International Association of Aesthetics, Member of the editorial board of the journal prologue.
Author and co-author of studies on policy sign, body and space and problems of modernity.

Toni Maraini
A writer, historian and art critic from 1964 to 1989 has lived and taught in Morocco, where she participated in the genesis of many artistic and cultural activity; lives in Italy where she has published numerous books and continues to document history artistic and cultural Morocco and the Maghreb in collaboration with academic and international journals.

Mohamed Rachdi
Artist, curator, academic researcher and art critic.
It publishes books and articles on testing contemporary art. Author of Art and memory editions L'Harmattan, Interference-references Moroccan contemporary art editions on-RARE.
He is currently Head of Cultural Patronage to Competitive

Farid Zahi
Born in 1960 in Casablanca. Researcher, translator and art critic. Has published extensively on body image and imagination in the Arab world. Directs the collection "Regard oblique" among Marsam editions. Currently professor of education at the Graduate Institute of Scientific Research in Rabat.

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