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News 14 Jan 2025 2 min read

Errachidia: Rachid Adidou exhibits his canvases charged with Amazigh art and history

Errachidia: Rachid Adidou exhibits his canvases charged with Amazigh art and history

His artistic creations, unveiled on the occasion of the festivities marking the celebration of the Amazigh New Year, invite discovery of a myriad of portraits of women dressed in traditional outfits with refined patterns that reflect the richness of an ancestral cultural heritage.

Amazigh jewelry is also in the spotlight in these works, which allow one to appreciate beads of various shapes, testifying to the ancestral know-how and unique aesthetics demonstrated by Amazigh artisans.

Other works painted in acrylic on canvas show Kasbahs and Ksours of the Tafilalet region with corner towers that speak volumes about the magnificence of the Amazigh architectural heritage and its multiple forms.

According to Adidou, these canvases highlight different characters, historical sites and monuments, local products, local objects and utensils, but also and above all these social ties and this harmonious dialogue between the different cultures and linguistic components that the Drâa-Tafilalet region abounds with.

Mr. Adidou, holder of a baccalaureate in visual arts, stated in a declaration to MAP that his works, which have been exhibited in several Moroccan cities, evoke the beauty and depth of the Drâa-Tafilalet region, while offering a fascinating immersion into the multiple facets of Moroccan identity through canvases charged with emotion, nostalgia, and symbolism.

The city of Errachidia is vibrating these days to the rhythm of colorful festivities, in celebration of Id Yennayer 2975, the Amazigh New Year, which coincides with January 14th of each year.

Thus, the city's Cultural Centre hosted on Monday evening, in a festive atmosphere, an artistic evening where Amazigh heritage and culture were in the spotlight with the succession on stage of several troupes that treated the public to a florilegium of pieces that draw from the rich Amazigh repertoire.

The painter Rachid Adidou is exhibiting at the Traga Cultural Centre in Errachidia a fascinating collection of canvases reflecting the diversity and richness of Amazigh culture.
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