{"id":17158,"date":"2022-06-13T17:07:07","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T17:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.museudemertola.pt\/exhibition-of-paintings-by-moulay-youssef-elkahfai-the-return-le-retour\/"},"modified":"2022-06-13T17:07:07","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T17:07:07","slug":"exhibition-of-paintings-by-moulay-youssef-elkahfai-the-return-le-retour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.museudemertola.pt\/en\/exhibition-of-paintings-by-moulay-youssef-elkahfai-the-return-le-retour\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibition of paintings by Moulay Youssef Elkahfa\u00ef – The Return. Le Retour"},"content":{"rendered":"

Galeria do Castelo de M\u00e9rtola (M\u00e9rtola Castle Gallery) – from 19th May to 17th September 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the leading names in Moroccan contemporary painting, Moulay Youssef Elkahfa\u00ef was born in Marrakesh, where he lives and works. He graduated from the School of Fine Arts of Tetouan and currently organises and runs an Engraving and Silkscreen workshop in Marrakesh at the \u00c9cole Sup\u00e9rieure des Arts Visuels. Since 1988 he has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions. His works are part of the collection of the royal palace of Rabat, Morocco, and several private collections in France, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Japan, Mexico, China, Lithuania, Canada, the UK and the USA. In his work, he likes to explore the essence of human emotions, transcend matter and stay within the spiritual, the emotional and the intangible. Besides painting, he also creates art with engraving and sculpture.
\nIn the exhibition catalogue, Rosinda Pimenta states that “hosting, in M\u00e9rtola, this exhibition of artist Moulay Youssef Elkahfa\u00ef means the fulfilment of an old ambition to bring to us the work and the person of what is admittedly one of the most important artists in the universe of contemporary plastic arts in Morocco. Moulay Youssef Elkahfa\u00ef honours us with this ‘Return’, also within the return of the M\u00e9rtola Islamic Festival, which finally takes place after a break forced by the restrictions of the pandemic. And so, in the convergence of this return, this exhibition also manifests the resilience and perseverance of Culture and of its most direct agents, the artists, against the current adverse times.
\nApproaching the work of Moulay Youssef Elkahfa\u00ef, I highlight the sublime figurative work of his compositions, where combined techniques and diversified materials are mixed and interwoven with mastery. With a very powerful expressionism, one can perceive in his work a taste for the essence of human emotions, expressed in faces and bodies marked by imprecise, sometimes shapeless, timeless forms, amplified in their expressiveness and symbolism by the decisive use of colour. Faces and bodies, the physical matter entangled to expose the intangible: the human complexity and vulnerability, so universal and so evident in the times we live in today. At the exhibition in M\u00e9rtola, we will meet this universe of colour and expression, so organic, so human, so poetic and penetrating, exactly what the artist has accustomed us to\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the leading names in Moroccan contemporary painting, Moulay Youssef Elkahfa\u00ef was born in Marrakesh, where he lives and works. He graduated from the School of Fine Arts of Tetouan and currently organises and runs an Engraving and Silkscreen workshop in Marrakesh at the \u00c9cole Sup\u00e9rieure des Arts Visuels. Ler mais Exhibition of paintings by Moulay Youssef Elkahfa\u00ef – The Return. Le Retour<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[198,139],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museudemertola.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museudemertola.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museudemertola.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museudemertola.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museudemertola.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.museudemertola.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museudemertola.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museudemertola.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museudemertola.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museudemertola.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}