The artist Bouchta El Hayani takes over the L'Atelier 21 art gallery in Casablanca for the very first time, from 5 December 2023 to 5 January 2024, for a retrospective exhibition covering 50 years of creative work.
Bouchta El Hayani is a painter from Taounate, born in 1952. He also teaches plastic arts at the Centre pédagogique régional de Rabat, CPR, and graphic design at the Ecole nationale d'architecture. His mediums include canvas, worked or recovered paper, cardboard and plywood. His use of space is dominated by black light, from which flashes, spurts, drips, if not swarms of red, blue, yellow and white often point in the same direction, from top to bottom, from right to left, at an angle. He also likes to work with the human body.