MACAM Tunis: Exhibition “Plastic arts in Tunisia: journey with the National Fund (1850 – 2021)â€
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- 05 Oct 2022
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Open to the public since September 10, 2022, the exhibition “Plastic arts in Tunisia: travel with the National Fund (1850 – 2021)” is visible at the headquarters of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MACAM Tunis) every day from weekdays from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., except Monday.
The exhibition is a retrospective of the different currents, movements, schools and notorious periods in the recent history of plastic arts in Tunisia, from the mid-19th century to the present day. It is divided into four historical periods, namely the beylical period, the colonial period, the abstract period and finally the period of extreme contemporary.
Conceived, prepared and managed under the artistic, scientific and historical direction of visual artist and curator, Mohamed Hachicha, the exhibition "Plastic arts in Tunisia: journey with the National Fund (1850 – 2021)" includes a selection of approximately 400 works belonging to the National Plastic Arts Fund. The exhibition has set itself the primary objective of highlighting and promoting the richness of the national heritage of visual arts, by documenting its main stages in Tunisia through the years and decades.
Emblematic works from each historical period have been finely selected in order to reconstruct a retrospective panorama, making it possible to retrace and make discover more than a century and a half of the history of plastic arts in Tunisia. From the first works of the pioneers to the period of extreme contemporary, passing through the emblematic School of Tunis and the so-called "abstract" period, in addition to the "parenthesis" of naive art and the boom phase of the tapestry, the exhibition “Plastic arts in Tunisia: journey with the National Fund (1850 – 2021)” reflects the diversity of artistic currents and highlights the creativity of the different generations of Tunisian and foreign artists residing in Tunisia.
From painting to sculpture, including tapestry, ceramics, engraving and photography, the exhibition “Plastic arts in Tunisia: journey with the National Fund (1850 – 2021)” offers a museum journey, spread over several stages. , for a historiography that aims to be as exhaustive as possible of more than a century and a half of plastic art in Tunisia. From the beylical period to the colonial one, from the postcolonial period to the contemporary one, the exhibition introduces the most representative works of the different movements, tendencies and artistic expressions in Tunisia. Read More…
