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Retrospective of Moulay Youssef Elkahfai's graphic art at the Villa des Arts Rabat 5 April-20 June 2011


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Sunday, April 3rd 2011

The Villa des Arts de Rabat presents for the first time in Morocco, a solo exhibition of the artist Moulay Youssef Elkahfai dedicated to engraving, lithography and other forms of printed images.



Retrospective of  Moulay Youssef Elkahfai's graphic art  at the Villa des Arts  Rabat 5 April-20 June 2011
 Engraving of a print based on the concept of creating a piece, also called the matrix. It is used to transfer the image onto paper. Engraving is an art that has many subdivisions: Giclée, etching, lithograph, linocut etc ... The artist creates different textures, colors, shapes and effects, like a painting, the artist produces a work unique art, defined by its style and personality.

Moulay
Youssef Elkahfai was born in 1969 in Marrakech where he lives and works. A graduate of the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts in Tetouan in 1993, this artist is a painter and engraver, lithographer. His favorite theme: a passion for the human. Men, women,  recurrent subjects in  Moulay Youssef Elkahfai's work , which reveal themselves in new ways in an ongoing quest for humanism and poetry. Currently, Moulay Youssef Elkahfai runs a print shop founded in 2003 at Tighadouine in the Marrakech region.

 He is a multifaceted
artist who proposes a different approach to pictorial art: The prints and graphic work, strongly linked to his painting by creating points of convergence between appearance and pictorial arts (painting and printmaking).
 




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