black with a mount · Casablanca · Grammar of the 1960s
The Sign
In the grammar of the Casablanca School · Grammar of the 1960s · Casablanca
- Giclée on 200gsm archival matte, pigment inks
- Printed to order in Europe and posted to you
- Framing is optional, and framed prints arrive ready to hang
About this piece
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
Grammar, not a work
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.
