22 December 2017 – 31 September 2018 – Mouassine Museum
Abdelay Mellakh est né en 1947 in the Mouassine district, in the old family house now transformed into the Mouassine Museum. It was in this house that he also had his first workshop, nourishes the striking influences of the neighborhood and its profusion of colors. The germination of a work found there all its essences.
Marrakech was already a cosmopolitan city, traveled by the Rolling Stones, Moustaki, Roland Barthes and Nicolas de Staël. In Morocco, the publishers of the review Souffles marked an era. In his workshop Abdelhay Mellak had gathered good company : Picasso photos, Bob Dylan, de Dali, the novels of Camus. In this same derb Abdullah Ibrahim also took his first steps.
L’exposition «Mellakh, the magic of the places ”that we present is a multiple celebration: a house, a district, a painter. The paintings of the years 1970 exhibited evoke the matrix of a work. The birth of the themes dear to the painter, the emergence of symbols that weave together the work and its environment are illustrated.
A great painter of Moroccan artistic life was born here, in the heart of Mouassine, and now participates in the metamorphosis of a venerable family home into a place of art.