Uncover the colorful and sometimes joyous work of Étienne Dinet on the Arab World Institute near our lodges – a special have a look at post-independence Algeria that avoids exoticism and the traditional colonial depictions.
For those who’d wish to find out how the work of a colonial-era French painter grew to become the principal visible illustration of Algeria after gaining independence, this is the exhibition for you.
After coaching classically in Paris and beginning his profession with customary panorama work, Étienne Dinet’s life modified throughout a go to to Algeria in 1884. He stayed on, discovered the language, explored and found the nation by means of portray it over a decade or so, and ultimately ended up sharing a clay home proper within the Arab quarter of Bou-Saâda. Just a few years later, in 1913, he transformed to Islam and took the identify Nasreddine.
The exhibition particulars the painter’s uncommon life story, his beliefs, the later years throughout which he purchased the land on which to construct his tomb, and his surprising posterity – it’s uncommon for a French painter to celebrated for his artwork to such an extent and for therefore lengthy in a foreign country. The Algerian state even formally named him as a “grasp of Algerian portray”.
It’s an enchanting topic to discover by means of the work and writings of this singular particular person.
Linked with the exhibition, you are able to do a guided go to (together with one with modern artist Kader Attia on Saturday twenty third at 3.30pm), and there’s a workshop for households in the course of the college holidays.
All the above may be booked right here.
There are additionally conferences and debates as soon as per thirty days (In French – “Étienne Dinet dans l’histoire de l’artwork. La query de la représentation des corps féminins“, “La spiritualité dans l’œuvre et la vie d’Étienne Dinet“… Obtain a PDF with all the information right here) and a Beaux-Arts particular (52 pages, 12€) is on the market right here out of your native Amazon.
L’exposition Étienne Dinet, passions algériennes est à l’Institut du monde arabe (ici) du 30 janvier au 9 juin 2024
Ouvert tous les jours sauf le lundi de 10h à 18h (19h le week-end et jours fériés). Nocturnes le premier mercredi de chaque mois jusqu’à 21h30
Entrée : 8€ / 6€
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