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Arab Presences: Modern Art And Decolonisation: Paris 1908-1988

Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris

16e | Paris | France

05 Apr, 2024 - 25 Aug, 2024

The Mus茅e d'Art Moderne de Paris is inviting visitors to rediscover the diversity of 20th-century Arab modernism and to take a fresh look at the history of art scenes still little known in Europe. Through a selection of over 200 works, most of whichhave never before been exhibited in France, the exhibition Modern Art and Decolonization: Paris 1908 鈥� 1988 focuses on the relationship between Arab artists and Paris throughout the 20th century.

The exhibition explores a different history of modern art, illuminated by a wealth ofhistorical audio and visual archive material. Organised chronologically, it begins in 1908, the year in which the Lebanese poet and artist Gibran Khalil Gibran arrived in Paris and the opening of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Cairo. The period ended in 1988, with the first exhibition devoted to contemporary Arab artists at the Institut du Monde Arabe (officially opened a few months earlier) in Paris and with the exhibition Singuliers: bruts ou na茂fs, featuring among others Moroccan artist Cha茂bia Tallal and Tunisian artist Jaber Al-Mahjoub, at the Mus茅e d'Art Moderne in Paris.