Video: A holiday that is always with you - wall painting festival in Morocco
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Exactly 35 years ago in Morocco was organized wall painting festival … At that time, this art form still needed recognition, but now Wall art has become an integral part of modern culture. Annually north Morocco attracts many tourists to the graffiti festival called Murals.
From a distance, this city looks like a bird's nest in a rock. The old part of the city, the medina, is located above the raging Atlantic Ocean. There are two reasons that attract tourists here - they are delicious fish and wall paintings. Sophisticated gourmet tourists have heard of markets where you can buy delicious fish, but not everyone knows about unique wall paintings.
Streets-gardens, streets-theaters, streets-paintings scattered like a serpentine throughout the city Assilah … For the artists of this festival, walls become canvases, with their cracks, irregularities and windows. Every detail is involved in the work, each has its own place. Assilah, located in the north of Morocco, annually turns into a fairy world for three days from 19 to 21 July. The city is home to a large number of local artists. As it turned out, there are still several engraving ateliers working here.
Artist Malika Agezne has been taking part in the festival for many years. “I was considered a young artist when I was invited to the city to complete one of the frescoes. I quickly coped with the work and decided to take a walk. I accidentally saw the atelier, went in, saw how real masters work, and decided to stay. They invited me to participate in the production of the engraving up to the finished print. At first there was no electricity or even running water. I had to go to the well to fetch water to wash my hands or wash the impression. I still remember these difficulties, but I perceived them as payment for the real joy of doing art,”the artist shared her impressions with the journalists of the Euronews TV channel.
Malika works in technology etching … The surface of the plate is primed with a special varnish, then the artist “scratches” the picture with an etching needle, making light strokes on the surface of the dark varnish. We have already written about the free creator Diana Sudyke, which also works in a similar technique.
“Creativity of this kind requires ants' patience and bee labor. I love fresco painting and engraving technique. For me, I am interested in work in which details are the most important thing, and there is no room for error. Fresco painting requires thoroughness in design and scrupulousness in execution,”says Malika Agezne.
At the end of the festival, the best paintings remain on the walls, while others are plastered and the walls are waiting for their future artist. This festival echoes the project Wide Open Walls, where graffiti on the streets of a village in The Gambia, transforms the streets into true art.
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