2014 (EN)

THE DEATH OF FARID BELKHAIA: THE FONDATION REMEBERS FARID WITH AFFECTION

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Marrakech  ||  26 September 2014
Tutte le Attività (EN) - Anno 2014

The morrocan painter Farid Belkahia dead yesterday at the age of eighty, after a long illness in his Marrakech city. Belkahia was one of the precursors of contemporary art in Morocco. He spent part of his childhood in Amezmiz, in the Marrakech region, heavily impregnated by his father, Mohamed Belkahia, who was part of the official delegation of interpreter at the inauguration of the Grand Mosque in Paris in 1926. Mhamed Belkahia has attended artistic environments and had different painters friends, including Anthony, Olek, Jeanine Teslar e Nicolas de Staël. Farid Belkahia was also introduced to painting at Olek Tlesar labs. Belkahia realizes her first oil portraits since he was 15 years old. In 1954 he organized his first exhibition at Hotel Mamounia, before flying to Paris to continue his studies at the School of Fine Arts in the French capital. The artist returned to Morocco in 1962, where he directed the School of Fine Arts in Casablanca until 1974 before deciding to devote himself entirely to his art. Farid is married to writer Rajae Benchemsi, from whom she had her daughter Fanou. Michele Capasso and Pia Molinari wish to express their condolences to the family, remembering the good times we spent together with Farid.