For the exhibition “Hamidi, here and now” at La Galerie 38, Mohamed Hamidi presents a set of unpublished paintings and sculptures, all created during his residency at the gallery, especially for this exhibition-event. Mohamed Hamidi, born in 1941 in Casablanca, is a major figure in the plastic arts of the post-colonial Moroccan era. His work embodies the history of modern Morocco. He was a major player in the Casablanca School, known for having proposed one of the most accomplished aesthetic models of the post-colonial era and for having defined a new plastic aesthetic based on an ancestral repertoire of forms specific to the Moroccan heritage.
