Khalil el-Ghrib, the wonder ascetic, by Mohamed Nedali-Liberation
On the occasion of the Paris Book Festival on April 11, 12 and 13, our journalists give way to authors for this 18th edition of the Libe of the writer. Find all the articles here.
Undisputed and indisputable leader of Moroccan artists, Khalil El-Ghrib is undoubtedly also one of the largest visual artists in the world. His artistic approach, based on a solid plastic, literary and philosophical culture, testifies to a deep reflection on the relationship of art to life, death and time that passes. His works, although of extreme sobriety, challenge at first glance and intrigue at the highest point, both initiates and neophytes. I will always remember the reaction of this Moroccan high school student, without any plastic culture, who suddenly arrested before a work of Khalil exhibited in Al-Maqam (Tahennaoute, Marrakech region), intrigued and perplexed. To my question on what attracted him to the work, he had a spontaneous answer, but oh so expressive! « I gotta Feeling May these menus objects tied up and hot contain a mystery of God! ”
A mystery of Godthe expression is undoubtedly the one that best describes the work of Khalil El-Ghrib. I have never read anything so relevant. It must be said that, faced with the artistic work of Khalil el-G
