Organised by the National Museums Foundation (FNM), this exhibition reveals, through a selection of works made available to the museum with the support of Omar Salhi, gallery owner of the Medina Art Gallery (Tangier), the multiple soul of the city of the Strait. Including paintings by George Apperley, Terrick Williams and Enrique Simonet Lombardo, among others, the exhibition invites the public to discover Tangier as it was perceived at the time, through its iconic places, its traditional neighbourhoods and its local life. Through some thirty works, the exhibition unveils the diversity of perspectives on the city at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, and thus draws the evolution of Tangier, captured in all its splendour and its timeless appeal.
Prolonged fascination
The head of the museums department at the FNM, Abdelaziz El Idrissi, indicated that this exhibition deals with the theme of the landscapes of Tangier, a city that has long captivated travelling artists who followed in the footsteps of the painter Delacroix since the second half of the 19th century, to settle temporarily or permanently in the city of the Strait.
"These artists left, after their passage in Tangier, a very rich and diversified artistic heritage, making the city, alongside other heritage elements, a paradise on earth that everyone dreamed of discovering", he explained. It is, according to Mr. El Idrissi, a "beautiful exhibition that allows one to see the different landscapes of Tangier, and to discover this city and the state in which it was, at the time when it was visited by all these artists". The exhibition, which will continue until 19 May 2025, thus extends the fascination begun by the permanent collection of the Villa Harris Museum in Tangier, which highlights the works of great explorer artists such as Jacques Majorelle, Claudio Bravo and Edy Legrand.
The artists restore through the current exhibition a glimpse of the city of the strait, thus constituting a historical testimony. "Tangier, the passion for colour" draws the evolution of the perspectives on the city, captured in all its splendour, and its timeless appeal. Note that "Tangier, the passion for colour" naturally extends the fascination begun by the permanent collection of the Villa Harris Museum in Tangier, whose inauguration of the spaces took place nearly four years ago.
The artists restore through the current exhibition a glimpse of the city of the strait, thus constituting a historical testimony. "Tangier, the passion for colour" draws the evolution of the perspectives on the city, captured in all its splendour, and its timeless appeal. Note that "Tangier, the passion for colour" naturally extends the fascination begun by the permanent collection of the Villa Harris Museum in Tangier, whose inauguration of the spaces took place nearly four years ago.
