BRICE MARDEN MOROCCO

FROM 22 FEBRUARY TO 12 MARCH 2019

Brice Marden (born 1938) earned his MFA at the Yale School of Art and Architecture in 1963. There, Marden’s instructors included Alex Katz, Jon Schueler, and Esteban Vicente. In 2006, Brice Marden was honored with a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, which traveled to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin. He has also been the subject of one-person exhibitions at institutions such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, and the Serpentine Gallery in London. Brice Marden lives and works in New York

Coinciding with the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair in Marrakech, the musée YVES SAINT LAURENT marrakech presents BRICE MARDEN MOROCCO, an exhibition dedicated to the work of the renowned American artist, Brice Marden. Since beginning his career in the 1960s, Marden has continuously refined and extended the traditions of lyrical abstraction. Experimenting with self-imposed rules, limits, and processes, and drawing inspiration from his extensive travels, Marden combines the diagrammatic formulations of Minimalism, the immediacy of Abstract Expressionism, and the intuitive gesture of calligraphy in his exploration of gesture, line, and color. The exhibition gathers more than 60 works, from oil painting on canvas to works on paper, including several produced in Morocco and never before seen by the public. It is the first time his work is shown in Africa, in Morocco, a country he discovered many years ago, and where he lives and works several months a year today.

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