Mohamed Melehi

Mohamed Melehi was a painter, printmaker, designer, muralist, and teacher. His compositions are characterized by curved forms and undulating parallel rhythms. He graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris. A pioneer of modernism and a cultural activist in post-colonial Morocco, he was one of the founders of the Casablanca Art School. Alongside other artists, he organized the manifesto-exhibition Présence plastique at Jemaa el-Fnaa square in Marrakech. His work has been exhibited at MACAAL in Marrakech, Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, and The Bronx Museum of the Arts. His works are part of the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, Le Centre Pompidou in Paris, and Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha.