For its first exhibition of 2023, the Espace Rivages in Rabat, part of the Hassan II Foundation for Moroccans Residing Abroad, hosts a collection of works by Moroccan artist Amine Asselman, based in Spain, "From Zellige to Infinity". On view until 18 February.
In a statement to the Moroccan Agency Press, the artist Amine Asselman, who grew up in Tetouan, said that this solo exhibition, the first of its kind in Morocco, highlights his ten years of experience in art and the particularities of Moroccan zellige. According to Amine Asselman, zellige resonates and forms a union with Andalusian music and its repetitions. Therefore, the artist has turned zellige into a language, translating Andalusian music scores through zellige.
"Du Zellige à l'infini" stems, on one hand, from the geometric composition of zellige, with its ornaments which take on infinite combinations and forms and; on the other hand, "from my artistic vision of zellige and the way it can express many of the specificities that characterise the history and culture of Moroccans".
Born in 1989 in Toulouse, Amine Asselman is a multidisciplinary artist based in Pontevedra, Spain. He holds a doctorate in creation and research in contemporary art from the Faculty of Fine Arts of Pontevedra at the University of Vigo in Pontevedra, Spain, and a bachelor's degree in fine arts, design branch, from the National Institute of Fine Arts in Tetouan, Morocco.