For the first time in the Arab world outside Algeria, hosted by "Sharjah Museums"

Bayah Mohieddin ... a "milestone" in the march of international art

Zayed bin Sultan bin Khalifa Al Nahyan, Nawar Al Qasimi, Noura Al Mualla, Manal Ataya and Aisha Rashid Dimas during the exhibition opening.

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The Sharjah Museums Authority, in its series of exhibitions “Distinguished Signs,” celebrates its 11th session, the pioneer of Algerian and Arab plastic art, the late Algerian artist Baya Mohieddine. The exhibition, which was launched under strict precautionary measures and measures, and continues until July 31, gives visitors the opportunity to learn and learn about the artist’s life. And her plastic career, through more than 70 creative artworks, including paintings she presented at her first exhibition in the French capital, Paris, in 1947.

The exhibition - which was inaugurated by Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan bin Khalifa Al Nahyan, will be presented in the presence of Sheikha Nawar Al Qasimi, Director of the Sharjah Art Foundation, Sheikha Noura Al Mualla, Director of Education and Research at the Sharjah Art Foundation, and Director General of the Sharjah Museums Authority, Manal Ataya, and Aisha Rashid Dimas, Director Executive Affairs and Director of the Department of Planning and Museum Strategies at the Authority Nasser Al Darmaki - Algerian plastic paintings on 16 halls in the Sharjah Art Museum of the Sharjah Museums Authority, where the first halls for art and plastic arts audiences are presented, a written biography that traces the artist’s career from her inception until her death.

The 14 halls contain more than 70 creative paintings, including one ceramic sculpture, all characterized by vibrant colors, decorative patterns, and fascinating visual vocabulary, which drew details from their cultural and environmental surroundings, creating through this imaginative and dreamlike combinations, dominated to a large extent by the characters The woman, while another hall displays via video, a meeting between the artist Baya and the art historian Salwa Mikdadi, in 1993 in Algeria.

The Sharjah Art Museum, which made great efforts, was able to borrow these paintings from the collectors of the artist’s works, and a number of institutions and artistic bodies from inside and outside the country, including the Foundation "Gallery Macht", which was the body that held the artist's first solo exhibition in Paris in 1947.

The Sharjah Art Foundation and the Barjeel Art Foundation presented a group of paintings, in addition to the Ramzi and Saida Dalloul Foundation for Arts in Lebanon, the Kamal Al-Azar Foundation in Tunisia, and a large number of paintings by the Al-Marsa Gallery of Art in Dubai and Tunisia, as well as a painting provided by the artist's family as a painting. The last that she drew before her death.

Primitive Art Foundation

The late artist Baya Mohieddine is considered one of the most famous and prolific painters, as her career spanned over six decades, and she became a pivotal artist in shaping the distinct artistic modernity in North Africa, where she succeeded in establishing a new school in Algerian and Arab plastic art, the School of Art. Primitive.

Algerian plastic art was also associated with international movements during the post-war period, such as surrealism and “raw art”, and its artworks were inspired by the Berber, Arab, Islamic and European artistic traditions, in addition to its unique creative sensitivity.

The artist was known as Baya Muhyiddin, although her real name is Fatima Haddad, but she was called Baya with the spread of her art and the increase in her fame, which is relative to "Bay" similar to "Day", the Turkish rank that was granted to governors of the states during the Ottoman rule of Algeria, She was awarded this title due to the unique talent she possesses that made her the father of Algerian painting.

And about the coincidence that led her to be one of the most important artistic figures in the world, it is what the audience will see during a visit to the museum, and introduce them to her biography in the first halls that tell through a group of posters the story of the 12-year-old, who accompanied her grandmother at work, while she was Saheb's sister The French farmer, Margaret Camina, is following the peasants, when she notices the little girl (Baya) playing with mud and creating masterpieces with it.

Inspirational artists and poets of Paris

In Paris, the star of the artist dawned, where she witnessed the organization of her first exhibition, which prompted the French surrealist poet André Breton to write an introduction in a pamphlet for her exhibition, and less than a year after her first exhibition, the international painter Pablo Picasso invited her to his workshop in southern France, to spend several months with him. During this period, she accomplished pottery masterpieces, and painted many paintings, including her famous "ceramic" sculpture.

The influence of the artist Pablo Picasso with the art of Baya and its bright colors was reflected in the cooperation of the duo in the creation of beautiful masterpieces, and Picasso was not alone who admired her works. In Paris, wide horizons opened before her, and she became a prominent face of Algerian and international contemporary art, where she met with Georges Braque, who is from Founders of the Cubism School.

The French magazine "Vogue" also wrote about her and published her photo. The surrealist community recognized her. She participated in group exhibitions in her country of origin, Arab countries, Europe, Japan, Cuba and the United States of America. Her artifacts are found in famous museums around the world. Algeria relied on her paintings on postage stamps.

The first exhibition

The exhibition hosted by the Sharjah Art Museum is the first solo exhibition in the Arab world (outside Algeria) that collects the artist's works of this size, in honor of her memory, and in honor of her great role in inspiring many prominent Arab and international artists, such as Picasso, through which she won the title of Inspirational Picasso, in addition to To the artist, Jean Dubuffet, and others.

• In Paris, Baya became a prominent face of contemporary art, and she met with Georges Braque and collaborated with Picasso.

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