
BEN ISMAIL AHMED
Marrakech
AHMED BEN ISMAEL Born in 1995 at Marrakesh, Ahmed Ben Ismael is a painter and photographer. He realizes several literary and artistic book covers and posters for cultural and artistic events. He works also a journalist for several national and international newspapers His first exhibition, Contes soufis, dates back to 1990 at L’Atelier Gallery in Rabat then the French Institute of Marrakesh Since 1994, the artist exhibits his pictural and photographic artwork everywhere in Morocco and abroad. He lives and works in Marrakesh. From painting to photography, we found in Ben Ismael a particular climat for a diversity of expressions. Obviously by his forms, his cercles more or less undecided, his angles, his squares, his arrows, populating the canvas, he evokes the world of magic, talismanic scripture, fragmentary, spread to assure the illegibility of his mystery. This world has its colors, those found dominant in Ben Ismael’s painting, namely red and green. Otherwise, the artist use vegetal tinctures, those used by the weavers. Colors witch emblematic shades reflects a living reality, the writing of a given soul.
Main exhibitions
2010 Noir sur Blanc Art Gallery - Marrakesh 2010
Arbre de vie, Es Saâdi Hotel - Marrakesh 2010
Le Sous-Sol Gallery - Agadir 2010
First meetings of Actual Art - Mazagran Beach Resort
2009 Dar Cherifa - Marrakesh
2008 Point & Ligne Gallery - Casablanca
2006 La Qoubba Gallery of Arts - Marrakesh
2006 6th Edition of International Salon of Art - Marseille, France
2006 Almakam - Tahnaout
2006 Le Jacaranda Art Gallery and Restaurant - Casablanca
2004 Marsam Gallery - Rabat
2004 Aix-en-Provence town hall - France
2003 Signs and symbols
2000 Marrakesh Art Gallery - Marrakesh
2000 Bleu Gallery - Marrakesh
1999 Lalla Aouda Fountain Gallery - Marrakesh
1996 Socialist students festival - Hassan II University - Casablanca
1995 View on Moroccan photography - WafaBank Foundation Gallery - Casablanca
1994 Night marks - Bab Doukkala Gallery - Marrakesh
1994 Marrakesh’s Mawsimiyat - thresholds and readings - L’Amicale Al-Jazouli terraces - Marrakesh
1990 Contes Soufis - L’Atelier Gallery - Rabat
1990 French Institute of Marrakesh