The opening of the exhibition by painter Abbès Saladi, entitled "Saladi, the Alchemist", took place at the Museum of Immaterial Heritage on the Place de Jemaâ El Fna in Marrakech.
"The exhibition is divided into three sections, three periods that characterise his artistic life. The first section depicts the everyday reality observed in the artist's surroundings, with themes that reveal a style that can be described as naïve. The second section highlights Saladi's preoccupation with composition, which has become essential to his approach and whose line has become much more refined, as well as the oriental influence of miniature painting, particularly Persian and Pharaonic, which emerges as his distinctive mark". - exhibition press release.
For Mehdi Qotbi, Chairman of the National Museums Foundation (FNM), "the reopening of this museum illustrates the FNM's determination to revitalise Marrakech's cultural and tourist offering. It was made possible thanks to the mobilisation of all the necessary resources, as well as the major contribution of the ALIPH Foundation, of which Morocco is an active member". (statement made to the MAP).