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The Minister of Culture and Tourism, Pedro Alberto Cruz, today announced the first shows of its own, which has led to the exhibition hall of the church Veronicas curator and art critic Jerome Sans and French under the title 'Zahra' flower in Arabic, presents an installation and a video animation created specifically for this space by the Moroccan artist Younès Rahmoun (Tetouan, 1975).

The exhibition, which opens this evening at 20:00, will remain open until 18 October.

Cruz explained that Rahmoun "is a young Moroccan artist, however, already has a huge critical reputation and is becoming one of the most authoritative voices of what might be called the new Islamic art."

In the work of this artist mixed "concepts of Sufi philosophy and Zen philosophy," said Cruz, making it "there are a number of tensions that give it its identity."

First, he explained, in the work of Rahmoun "performs a redemption of the little things", while "the major concepts are lived through everyday experiences, giving them a human scale and intimate things."

Furthermore, it is a conceptual artist, however, "makes a claim of craftsmanship, of what is a very interesting paradox that marriage between the conceptual and material."

Finally, "on one side, he says he wants to convey emotions, but also suggest, so we could speak of a reflective emotionality, an emotion that leads us to think," said the counselor.

For Cruz, the work of Rahmoun "is linked in with the aesthetic sensuality, plays with the arabesque, geometry and color and, ultimately, recover certain factors and arguments that seemed dead in the history of art, but this artist redefined so unbeatable. "

For his part, welcomed Rahmoun be in Murcia, the land where he was born the great Sufi Ibn Arabi and exposing in a place like an old church that has its own history and explained that his work refers to the windows and the domes of the churches.

In the video animation shows 77 flowers that occur one after another, with a red dot is pulsating below each flower as a living seed.

Moreover, the system consists of as many light boxes that show a flower each.

In both studies Younès Rahmoun first used the colors and light as a metaphor for the immaterial.

For the artist, the red dot represents the heart, the source of the feelings and intentions, and the colors suggest the nuances of what emerges from the heart.

Born Rahmoun work influenced by Sufi thought and practice, especially the mystic Ibn Arabi of Murcia (Murcia 1165 - Damascus 1240), which directs you to the use of repetition, concentration, unfinished, the presence and absence .

In some of his drawings and installations of the universe takes the echo ornamental Byzantine architecture and the Andalusian craftsmen with many references to mathematics and architecture.

This is a work that uses the language of contemporary reviews in depth the tradition of Islamic art and built a strong allegation of art's ability to continue to convey emotions.

In the case of your project in Murcia, flowers - with its quiet growth and ephemeral beauty pose a reflection on the life and flood an area that seems to vibrate and thus recoup some extent, the very memory of the place, which reloading of spirituality and silence.

Younès Rahmoun

Tetuan (Morocco), 1975.

Solo Exhibitions

2009 Zahra, Room veronicas, Murcia, Spain .*

Nakhla / Zahra, FJ Gallery, Casablanca .*

Habba-Badhra 2008, Doual'art, Douala, Cameroon.

Ghorfa, Ana Huna Al-6, CO21, Brussels, Belgium.

11, Royal Museum Walls, Ceuta .*

2007 Badhra, Talmart Gallery, Paris, France.

Al-Ana Huna, Synesthésie, Saint-Denis, France.

2006 Ghorfa, Ana Huna Al-1, L'appartement 22, Rabat.

2005 Markib, Le Cube, the Austrian Centre for Information, Rabat.

Maqbara, l'Espai d'Art A.

Lambert, Javea, Spain .*

2004 99 VII Beques Banusaidi l'Amnèsia Col.lectiva Against the hermitage

Beneixida, Spain .*

Abyad, the gallery of the French Institute in Fez.

Palau d'Altea 2002, Arts Center, Altea, Spain .*

Tasbih 2001, Passage de l'Art, Marseille, France.

Group Exhibitions

2009 Traversées, Rouah Bab and Bab El Kebir, Rabat .*

Inside Looking Out, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway .*

This Is Now 2, L'appartement 2, Rabat.

MultiPistes, Meneer de Wit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands .*

Frequencies, Instituto Cervantes, Fez, Casablanca, Rabat, Tangier,

Tetouan and Marrakech .*

2008 Collectif 212, Casa Árabe, Madrid, Spain.

*

Iconoclasts: Les Territoires de l'Esprit, Anne De Villepoix Gallery, Paris

France.

Sin Fronteras, Bienal de Pontevedra, Pontevedra, Spain .*

JIEM XV, Video and Contemporary Music, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia

Madrid, Spain.

Accrochage Zéro, la Source du Lion Area, Casablanca.

Ceramic Ideas, Space Actua, Casablanca.

2007 Passerelle Artistique VI, Space Actua, Casablanca.

Zonder Titel, MuHKA, Anvers, Belgium .*

Dessins, Projets ... (3), L'appartement 22, Rabat.

2006 1 st Biennale of Art, Architecture and Landscape of the Canary Islands, Canary Islands

Spain .*

La Nuit des Galeries, Le Cube Austrian Center for Information and

Dutch Center, Rabat.

Infr'Action 06, International Festival of Performance Art, Sète, France

Ceramic Ideas, Majka Hüsstege Gallery, Den Bosch, Netherlands.

Ways of Seeing, the Port of Algeciras, Spain .*

Art Vidéo, Area 36, Strasbourg, France.

2005 à l'Unisson plurielles Visions, Le Cube, the Austrian Centre for Information,

Rabat.

Tentoonstelling, Artoteek, Schiedam, Netherlands.

Fée Maison, La Briqueterie, Ciry-le-Noble, France.

Constellations 2004, the Villa des Arts, Casablanca .*

The New School of Tetuan, Fundación Antonio Pérez, Cuenca,

Spain .*

Dak'Art (Biennial of Contemporary African Art), Exhibition

International, Dakar, Senegal .*

2003 H + M = 10, Centro Cultural De Warande, Turnhout, Belgium .*

Appel du Nord, gallery Delacroix, French Institute, Tangier.

2002 JF_JH individualités, L'appartement 22, Rabat.

Vincent Andres Estelles, 12 visions, traveling exhibition by Marina

Alta, Spain .*

2001 L'Art Contemporain between Tradition et modernité, Centro Cultural Al-Rabita

Al-Sakafia, Tripoli, Lebanon .*

L'Ailleurs, l'Espace Link, Sassari, Sardinia, Italy .*

Galería de la Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France.

Dak'Art 2000 (Biennial of Contemporary African Art), Exhibition

International, Dakar, Senegal .*

Contemporary Art from Morocco.

Polytechnic University, Valencia.

Ses

Voltes, Palma De Mallorca.

1999 Artistes Marocains à Lille, l'ARIAP Atelier / Galerie, Lille, France.

Regards Nomades, Frac Museum of Fine Arts, Dole, France .*

L'Objet disorients au Maroc, in the Villa des Arts and at the French Institute,

Casablanca .*

L'Objet disorients au Maroc, Museum of Decorative Arts, Paris

France .*

1998 The Gallery of the French Institute of Marrakech.

1996 The Gallery Delacroix, French Institute, Tangier.

Source: CARM