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Berbernest

Worked Copper

In the grammar of the Casablanca School · Grammar of the 1970s · Casablanca

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Original Berbernest composition

black with a mount · Casablanca · Grammar of the 1970s

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
Worked Copper

About this composition

The school moved off canvas onto copper and hide because those were the materials the country's craftsmen already worked, and because paint on stretched linen was the thing they were arguing with. Curved organic forms in henna and black on a hammered warm ground: matte, tactile, and nothing like an easel painting.

Hammered copper, 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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