L'Atelier, Itineraire D'une Galerie 1971-1991

"""Founded by Pauline de Mazières, quickly joined by Sylvia Belhassan, the art gallery L'Atelier de Rabat was, between 1971 and 1991, a reference artistic institution in Morocco, but also, more generally, in the Arab world. In twenty years of existence, and with the organization of a hundred individual or collective exhibitions, this gallery has shown more than 90 artists from not only Morocco, but also the artistic scene of various Arab or European countries. A very lively artistic and cultural center in Rabat, this gallery brought together, beyond painters and sculptors, all of Moroccan cultural life. While the period in Morocco was marked by folkloric, naïve or post-orientalist painting, Pauline de Mazières and Sylvia Belhassan made very ambitious choices by deliberately favouring often young artists, marked by abstraction or geometry, the informal or the narrative dimension, thus inscribing themselves in the international trends of contemporary art. Melehi, Belkahia, Bellamine, Chebâa, Kacimi and many other artists have exhibited at L'Atelier. »
Bernard Millet"

French