RObat, 26 Jun. (askanews) – novelist, essayist, poet; Painting is another artistic dimension for Tahar Ben Jelloun. The author of “Sand creature”, “Fatal night” and “The racism explained to my daughter” exhibits with a new exhibition in his city, Rabat, capital of Morocco; Paintings to write with the colors, paintings where there is often a door that opens towards the future.
Tahar Ben Jelloun writes in French, he is one of the most translated French -speaking authors in the world. In the restlessness of our times, which came to eighty years old, a very long career of efforts to unite North Africa and Europe, for mutual understanding, of his painting does not want to make a manifesto.
“It is painted to please others, to give them to desire for serenity, to feel good. I do not do metal painting, like metal music. I am a man of peace and serenity”.
The exhibition presents about forty canvas on acrylic colors on an electric blue background, until June 30, at the Mohammed VI Museum of modern and contemporary art. Ben Jelloun has been exhibited for about fifteen years but this is the first exhibition in the environments that welcomed retrospectives of Picasso, Van Gogh and Monet.
“There is not a message. As Georges Simenon said, if I have a message I send a telegram. Maybe the only message I can give it is” be well “. You are well with the colors, make sure that these colors give you serenity and desire to dance and sing”.
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