The Artist Ezz El-Din El-Hashemi Excavates The “Memory Of The Five Moons” In The Gallery Of Mohamed El-Dreissy In Tangier
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- 09 May 2023
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The exhibition "Memory of the Five Moons" by artist and researcher Ezz El-Din El-Hashemi Al-Idrissi opened on Saturday evening at the Mohammed Al-Dreissi Gallery of Contemporary Art in Tangier. The exhibition showcases a group of paintings created using mixed techniques, incorporating various materials and compositions that produce original compositions with high relief, in a style that focuses on visual impression and depth. The exhibition will remain open to the public until May 19th.
This exhibition is considered an extension of a series of exhibitions held by the artist in other cities in Morocco, such as "Cosmic Significances" at the National Library in Rabat and "Echo of Universal Significances" in Casablanca. El-Hashemi El-Idrissi explained that the exhibition is a new stage in his artistic path and research, with two main themes: the cosmic and spatial reference and the Moroccan-Andalusian artistic and cultural reference.
The theme of the universe and space is depicted in drawings of galaxies, planets, stars, and other celestial bodies that fill the universe. The artist attempts to recreate this vast and infinite space in his paintings. The theme of the Moroccan-Andalusian cultural reference is also present through shapes such as arabesques, zellij, mosaics, and spiritual geometry, which raise philosophical, spiritual, and metaphysical questions.
The artist aims to reconcile these two subjects to create aesthetic cohesion in the various paintings. "Apart from the message, and as I always say, the painter’s goal is to produce something beautiful, pleasing to the eye and beautiful to watch, but in parallel with that, if it also satisfies the soul, the better. And the artist had accomplished his mission," El-Hashemi El-Idrissi explained.
Khaled Al-Ghazali, a journalist and artist, praised the exhibition for its beautiful and unique works full of colors, incorporating artistic expressions and techniques such as pasting and satellite images with the sea and colors. Critic Muhammad Saud described the works of El-Hashemi El-Idrissi as "a journey in a heavenly space full of symbols and poetic colors that make the recipient search amidst this vast space for rhythms of color, emanating from vocabulary and symbols with an intellectual and civilizational load that evokes the past at the same time it looks forward to the future in a narrow field (the painting) to fly in an extended space full of poetry, where there are no limits to the dream and the flood of colors flowing from the depths of the artist."
