Michel Gauthier, Yamou Monography “Yamou” published by Skira/Atelier 21, 2014 The first “official” work in Abderrahim Yamou’s artistic career dates from 1989. The artist was thirty years old. He had been painting for several years and had even held an...
Marta Moriarty, Je suis ça Texte paru dans le catalogue de l’exposition “Deep inside”, Marrakech 2019 I met Yamou last April, and he invited me to visit his garden and studio in Tahannaout. Being a country girl at heart, I found the garden...
On the white of the large studio’s walls the water-green shade of a clear palette dominates. Through the freshness of the recent paintings, I discover a collection of perfect aesthetic coherence. Accuracy of the drawing at the contour of a whole vision. The first aim...
September 1993in the exhibition catalog « Yamou », Almanar gallery, Casablanca. « If you do not decompose bodies and if you do not corporify the incorporeals, the expected result will be nothing. » Hermes Trismegistus Painting opens its abyss in...
Christine Buci-Glucksmann, The skin of the world «”Everything is vision, becoming. We become universes. Becoming animal, plant, molecular, becoming zero”. Gilles Deleuze et Felix Guattari For paint to create landscape abstractions that map the world...
Michel Gauthier, Painting in his garden First, abstract paintings in the grip of an earthy material and a tense gesture – series of .Sands. (1989-1990), of .Soils. (1990-1991) and .Ochres. (1993-1996). Here we are in the deployment, perfectly controlled,...
