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Berbernest

The Sign

In the grammar of the Casablanca School · Grammar of the 1960s · Casablanca

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Original Berbernest composition

black with a mount · Casablanca · Grammar of the 1960s

Prodigi Classic Black frame corner photograph

Black · actual frame finishProdigi’s product photograph. Flat 20 mm face, 22 mm depth, with a snow-white mount.

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A Marrakech salon
The Sign

About this composition

One flat field and a single Amazigh-derived mark — a comb, a diamond — set on it as a graphic sign. The marks come from tattoo and weaving, where they were a written language that outsiders read as decoration. Putting one on a canvas at this scale was a political act in 1965 and reads as a design decision now.

Natural pigment, henna, black

Inspired by Moroccan modernism

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The artists of this movement are still in copyright and none of their paintings are reproduced here. What we take is the grammar — the flat fields, the hard edge, the refusal of the easel — the way a painter takes a manner without taking a picture.

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