AND'ART VIDEO // art residency in tanger

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The Italian artist Marzia Lami made this great video of the
festival art-residency And'art 09, where I was participating.
That happened in morocco in the city of tanger.

PAPELITOS // bulevar tanger

I made this work in a huge terrace in tanger, morocco.

I recieved a present from a friend, Ana, who gave me

paper colour notes, she was using them for writting ideas,

I put them in the no-writted side and I created a kind of

net, what I wanted obtain its to put colour in a amazing

white view of the city. Aswell giving volum and making

the sculpture strong at the sight but very light in the touch.

BIRCHIFA // children workshop

AREJ is an association located in a neighborhood

named Birchifa in the city of Tanger, Morocco. Those

nice people are trying to teach and give some good

moment to the children of this poor area.

I visited them and I really liked the idea to make

workshop there, and have the oportunity to show to

them my way of working and vision of art and life.

I proposed them to go outside in a open ground in front

of the association and collect things/garbage from the floor.

After that, we separate the good materials and objects

and we cleaned them. Next steep, inside the association,

we divided in groups and we start working.

Using the silicon gun and wire, they created a really nice

stuff. Have a look to the picks.

ROOF // somewhere in the kasbah

Beautiful natural sculpture I met just in front of

my new view, amazing roofs of tanger.

That's the start of a new work. I have found a crazy old

rusty wire in the terrace of the house I live now.

A day before I found in the beach those nice orange

plastic tubs.

Im not doing an sculpture here, I feel Im doing a painting,

using the objects as a lines, contorns and forms.

ROOF // First Works in Tanger

I'm back in Tanger, Morocco,, this time in Ana's house.
I've been all week going up and down to the building roof

enjoying the amazing light and view, the walls are so beautiful

and inspiring!
I found some things on the floor in a closing market I've passed

by some days ago. I used a oxidate metalic sheet I had found in
a waste ground as a base for this work, the result its a collage of

diferents materials and textures and the incredible shadow

casted on the wall.

TANGER morocco // street art

While I was in Tanger participating in a And'Art

festival I have meet Antonio, a wall painter from

spain, Marzia, a filmaker from Italy and Ana a

spanish photographer who lives in tanger.

Close to Ana's house, behind the medina, its an

area between house buildings with some nice trees

and shacks. Most of the children play there.. it's like

a secret place.

I colaborate with them making this place nicer for

the comunity.

Looking on the floor I found objects and waste

material and with those I create an sculpture at

one of the walls. The piece it's a kind of fountain

that can be activate with a floor pulsing pedal.

I used a big orange plastic botlle, part of a blue

broom, blue threads and the top of an orange

electrical appliance.

AND'ART tanger // exhibition

And'art, that means visions in Arabic it's a new itinerant

art-music festival in Morocco. In this first edition the

festival has been happening in the city of Tanger. We

were a total of 20 participants counting musicians,

filmmakers, photografers, painters and sculptors. Was so

good to be together with people from differents nationalities,

including of courses moroccans artists. In my group we were

4 people, for some days we moved around the city and

discussed and talked about our impression and feelings.

Next we started working in a project together and

aswell in a individual piece.

The two pictures above are from the market called

"Casabarata", It was amazing for me to discovered,

I love this place, you can find everything, full of energy.

I spoke to some people from there and they told me

more about the place. Three months ago, in the night

some diggers came and pulled down parts of the market,

nobody could tell me why they did it. The first picture

shows how is the situation now. The consequence is that

some people are looking in the ruins trying to find metal

or things which they can sell.

This is how I started recollecting and looking for materials

and objects for my individual piece.

Photo by Sammy Izri

Photo by Sammy Izri

So many children came to see the exhibition,

was really good to see them looking the pieces.

In the schools they don't have any art subject.

For "Casabarata" piece I used found objects,

colour ropes, part of old tree, wire, potato

wrapers and biscuits.

Photo by Sammy Izri.

This work its called "Awama" because it's the

name of the area close to theatre Mohamed

Haddad, where we were working.

All the parts of this sculptur are from around

the theater.

AND'ART tanger // outside work

We made a project at the outside Haddad theater

with the three artist I was collaborating with: Rocca,

Mia and Stephanie. We decided to do an sculptur-action

in the street because we found fundamental to interact

with the residents.

From Casabarata market we found objects that we

transformed to a presents for the children. We

used a lot of colour ropes to hang them out.

Photo by Sammy Izri

Photo by Sammy Izri