ALGERIA . Artists of the Fraternity - Donation Claude & France Lemand.

From 14 April to 14 June - Galerie Claude Lemand

  • KHADDA, Afrique avant 1.

    Afrique avant 1, 1963. Oil on canvas, 65 x 81 cm. Donation Claude & France Lemand 2018. Museum, Institut du monde arabe, Paris. © The Estate of Mohamed Khadda. Courtesy Galerie Claude Lemand, Paris.

  • BAYA, Music.

    Music, 1974. Gouache on paper, 100 x 150 cm. Donation Claude & France Lemand 2018. Museum, Institut du monde arabe, Paris. © The Estate of Baya. Courtesy Galerie Claude Lemand, Paris.

  • Halida BOUGHRIET, Memory in Oblivion 1.

    Memory in Oblivion 1, 2010-2011. Original photograph, printed on Fine art paper mounted on Dibond, 120 x 180 cm. Framed. Signed and numbered by the artist. Edition of 5 + 2 AP. © Halida Boughriet. Courtesy Galerie Claude Lemand, Paris.

  • MARTINEZ, ANZAR, le Prince berbère de la Pluie.

    ANZAR, le Prince berbère de la Pluie, 2001. Acrylic on canvas, 200 x 300 cm. Donation Claude and France Lemand 2019. Museum, Institut du monde arabe, Paris. © Denis Martinez. Courtesy Galerie Claude Lemand, Paris.

  • MOHAND, Le Jardin des Moines.

    Le Jardin des Moines, 1997. Oil on canvas, 146 x 228 cm. Donation Claude and France Lemand. Museum, Institut du monde arabe, Paris. © Abderrahmane Ould Mohand. Courtesy Galerie Claude Lemand, Paris.

ALGERIA . Artists of the Fraternity - Donation Claude & France Lemand.

- Jean de MAISONSEUL (1912-1999)
- Louis NALLARD (1918-2016)
- Abdelkader GUERMAZ (1919-1996)
- M’hamed ISSIAKHEM (1928-1985)
- Mohamed KHADDA (1930-1991)
- BAYA (1931-1998)
- Choukri MESLI (1931-2017)
- Abdallah BENANTEUR (1931-2017)
- Souhila BEL BAHAR (1934-2024)
- Mohamed AKSOUH (1934)
- Denis MARTINEZ (1941)
- Mahjoub BEN BELLA (1946-2020)
- Rachid KORAICHI (1947)
- Abderrahmane Ould MOHAND (1960)
- Kamel YAHIAOUI (1966-2024)
- Zoulikha BOUABDELLAH (1977)
- Halida BOUGHRIET (1980)
- EL MEYA Benchikh El Fegoun (1988)
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Claude and France Lemand’s pas­sion for the works of Abdallah BENANTEUR and their interest in non-European worlds have guided over time the con­sti­tu­tion of a remark­able col­lec­tion, which has been found in har­mony with France’s desire to create an Institute with a museum, in order to open eyes to artists from the Arab world and its dias­poras. Today, the national and inter­na­tional public can only be touched by the rich­ness and diver­sity of works cre­ated by artists from Algeria, more than 600 Algerian modern and con­tem­po­rary art­works in the col­lec­tions of the Institut du monde arabe’s Museum.

ALGERIA MY LOVE is a song of the pain of the land and Algerian people col­o­nized and mar­tyrized, the song of the Algerian cul­ture and iden­tity denied and uprooted. It is also the song of freedom and hope, of the renewal of artistic and lit­erary cre­ativity and the announce­ment of a renais­sance, nec­es­sary and long awaited.

ALGERIA MY LOVE is the expres­sion of the love that all artists have for Algeria, those inside and even more those out­side, all these cre­ators from the dias­pora who can say, like Abdallah Benanteur: "Algeria is in me, only my feet have left it; my mind is always roaming around mine."

This col­lec­tion is not suf­fi­ciently rep­re­sen­ta­tive of cer­tain his­tor­ical artists, such as Jean de Maisonseul, Choukri Mesli, Rachid Koraichi, …; it is even non-exis­tent for visual artists who appeared in Europe in the 2000s, such as Yazid Oulab, Driss Ouadahi, Djamel Tatah, Bruno Boudjelal, Zineb Sedira, Kader Attia, Adel Abdessemed, Fayçal Baghriche, Abdelkader Benchama, Mohamed Bourouissa, Neïl Beloufa and many more. We hope that emblem­atic works by these artists will enrich the col­lec­tions of the new IMA museum.

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