Artist

Farid Belkahia

1934–2014 · Moroccan

Farid Belkahia led the Casablanca School in the 1960s and rejected imported easel-painting conventions in favor of copper, animal skin, natural dyes and forms drawn from Amazigh and Islamic visual cultures. His practice helped redefine Moroccan modernism around material and local knowledge.

Painting; leather; copper; drawing