Artist

Mohamed Chebaa

Born in Tangier, 1935

Mohamed Chebaa was born in 1935 in Tangier. He graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Tetouan (1955). He moved to Italy from 1962 to 1964 tu study at Rome’s Academy of Fine Arts. Back in Morocco, he became a teacher at the Ecole des Beaux-arts in Casablanca.
Chebaa was the former Director of the National Institute of Fine Arts in Tetouan from 1994 to 1998. He is one of the founders of the Moroccan modern art movement. With Belkahia or Melehi, Chebaa has bravely fought for a strong renewed Moroccan art identity. He vigorously stood for the introduction of traditional Moroccan arts in the post-independence culture. He also prescribed the integration of paintings and drawings in the heart of urban spaces. Alongside Belkahia, Melehi, Hamidi and other major modern artists, Chebaa participated in Jemaa El Fna 1969 exhibition to ask for the democratization of arts. They all believed everyone should be able to have access to the artistic world. He was a teacher at the National School of Architecture in Rabat. Mohamed Chebaa died in 2013.

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