The exhibition catalog presents a large number of works by teachers and students of the Casablanca Art School, which became a center for interdisciplinary experimentation and cultural renewal after Morocco's independence in 1956.

Morad Montazami's text introduces the developments at the school from 1962 onwards and presents the most important protagonists of this upheaval. Along the chapters of the exhibition, he traces important innovations in terms of teaching and artistic production that emerged independently of traditions and colonial influences. In her essay, Maud Houssais traces the importance and peculiarity of the artists' approach to public space. Fatima-Zahra Lakrissa's contribution focuses on the return to one's own cultural heritage, especially that of the Amazigh, and the associated rewriting of an art and cultural history. A chronology also provides an overview of the socio-political developments in the country at the same time. In addition, all artists are introduced by means of short biographies.

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Discover the full range of artistic production that has emerged from the Casablanca Art School since the 1960s.

CATALOG Casablanca Art School. A Postcolonial Avant-Garde 1962 - 1987 edited by Morad Montazami, Madeleine de Colnet and Esther Schlicht, with contributions by Maud Houssais, Fatima-Zahra Lakrissa and Morad Montazami, as well as a foreword by the director of the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt Sebastian Baden, German-English edition, 136 pages, approx. 150 illustrations, 19 x 27 cm, softcover, Spector Books, ISBN 978-3-95905-848-3, 29 € (SCHIRN), 32 € ( bookstores)