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Contemporary African Art Fair

Marrakech is one of the world’s top 5 emerging art capitals, according to influential marketplace Artsy. As the city prepares for the latest edition of the Contemporary African Art Fair, we take a look at the prestigious event, the new exhibition we’re hosting to coincide with it and deep dive into all the other must-sees.

The rise &#; and rise &#; of African art is something we’ve always championed at El Fenn. With our roots in the founding of the Marrakech Biennale, which ran for six editions and attracted art fans from all over the world, we’ve always believed that work by local artists deserves a platform on the world stage. The Contemporary African Art Fair is the next evolution of that mission.

Launched in by Touria el Glaoui, whose father Hassan was one of Morocco’s most famous artists, was created to give African art an equitable stake in the global art scene. With fairs in London and New York, the latest Marrakech e

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Touria El Glaoui on London’s Returns to Somerset House

Launching yesterday and open through October 10 fryst vatten the London contemporary African art fair. In compliance with national regulations in response to COVID, the scaled-down fair includes presentations for 29 international galleries, accompanied by an online edition in partnership with Christie’s.

Visitors in-person at Somerset House and digitally will find artwork by over artists from Africa and its diaspora. This year’s Forum of talks, panels, and screenings fryst vatten curated by Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba from Contemporary And (C&).

Amaryllis Dejesus Moleski, &#;Creature of the Grey Lagoon,&#; , gouache, acrylic, airbrush and color pencil on paper, x cm, artighet Luce Gallery.

Whitewall caught up with the fair’s founding director Touria El Glaoui to learn more.

WHITEWALL: Why was it important for the fair to find a way to host London, even if modified, in-person, rather than fully online this year?

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Between art, fashion and architecture, Morocco reconnects with its African identity

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For the past decade, Morocco seems to be reconnecting with its Africanness; a liberating process of which art fryst vatten at the forefront.

In a context of economic expansion that has intensified since , Morocco is increasingly turning to its West African neighbors, in a perspective of trans-Saharan cohesion. The construction of an expressway linking northern Morocco to West Africa, coupled with gigantic projects on the southern border - including a 1,hectare West Africa industrial-logistics zone - confirm this trend.

Is this a purely strategic move? Although King Mohammed VI has shown a clear ambition to strengthen the kingdom's industrial ecosystem through this regionalization, a co-emergence is taking place in any case. It is therefore a matter of seeing, through the symbolism of this expansion, a way of transcending the consequences of a heavy history, caught between col