{"id":21556,"date":"2026-10-08T16:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T16:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/toni-maraini-at-the-forefront-of-moroccan-modernity\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T13:59:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T13:59:40","slug":"toni-maraini-at-the-forefront-of-moroccan-modernity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/en\/toni-maraini-at-the-forefront-of-moroccan-modernity\/","title":{"rendered":"Toni Maraini, at the Forefront of Moroccan Modernity"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"21556\" class=\"elementor elementor-21556 elementor-21373\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-43ebe16 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"43ebe16\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f859266 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f859266\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Historian and art critic Toni Maraini, who taught at the Casablanca Art School from 1964 to 1972, is the guest of honor at the 47th edition of the Assilah International Cultural Moussem. Here\u2019s a look back at the career of a major figure who helped shape the history of modern art in Morocco. <\/strong><\/p><p>By Olivier Rachet<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b95af10 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"b95af10\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"2130\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-21559\" alt=\"Toni Maraini, traveling in southern Morocco, 1969. Photo: M. Melehi, T. M. archives\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2-1.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2-1-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2-1-721x1024.jpg 721w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2-1-768x1091.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2-1-1082x1536.jpg 1082w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2-1-1442x2048.jpg 1442w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2-1-300x426.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">Toni Maraini, traveling in southern Morocco, 1969. Photo: M. Melehi, T. M. archives <\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-777488d elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"777488d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6c69665 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6c69665\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The circumstances of a birth, however random and contingent they may be, may shape one\u2019s character and, without warning, set one\u2019s destiny on a certain course. Toni Maraini was born in Japan in 1941, where her father, Fosco Maraini, had been awarded a research fellowship in anthropology. Accused of failing to pledge allegiance to the Italian fascist regime of the time, the family was interned in a prison camp in Japan from 1943 to 1945. Naturally reserved, Toni Maraini returned to this part of her childhood\u2014always more or less formative\u2014in her 2007 book <i>La lettera da Benares<\/i> [The Letter from Benares], an imaginary correspondence with her father, who had just died.  <\/p><p>After returning to Italy, she continued her studies in England and at Smith College in Northampton in 1958 and 1962, and earned a degree in art history. In 1964, she earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in cultural anthropology, history of the Arab world, and Oriental art, which set the course for a career marked by an openness to non-Western cultures and, more broadly, to others.   <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7d124b9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"7d124b9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b08503a elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"b08503a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1072\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1-2.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-21558\" alt=\"Toni Maraini (center) with children participating in the free art workshop, Moussem d\u2019Assilah, 1979. Photo: M. Melehi, T. M. archives\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1-2.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1-2-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1-2-1024x732.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1-2-768x549.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">Toni Maraini (center) with children participating in the free art workshop, Assilah Moussem, 1979. Photo: M. Melehi, T. M. archives <\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e728879 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"e728879\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3414eaf elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3414eaf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Beyond her now well-documented involvement with the Casablanca Group and the Casablanca Art School, where she taught modern art history from 1964 to 1972, she never ceased to consider every human being in all their vulnerability, taking as much interest in children\u2019s education as in the issue of uprooting. On the occasion of the first Assilah Moussem (1978), she created an open workshop for children and teenagers, which she led until 1985, as well as an art therapy workshop at the Ibn Rochd Hospital in Casablanca, following in the footsteps of the experiments conducted by Dr. Abdellah Ziou Ziou at the Berrechid Psychiatric Hospital. She also published several personal collections, including a book of poems,    <i>Message d\u2019une Migration<\/i> [Message from a Migration] (\u00c9ditions Shoof, 1976), whose cover is illustrated by Melehi, whom she met in Italy and with whom she would later become a partner. During his stay in Rome, he exhibited at the Galleria Trastevere, which was then directed by Toni Maraini\u2019s mother, Topazia Alliata. She reflects on the painter\u2019s years in Italy in an article published in 2021.  <\/p><p>But it is her <i>\u00c9crits sur l\u2019art<\/i> (Le Fennec, 1990) and her many contributions to the journals launched in the wake of the Casablanca Group\u2014from <i>Maghreb Art<\/i> to <i>Souffles<\/i> and <i>Integral<\/i>\u2014that establish the fundamental role she played in this Moroccan avant-garde movement in the aftermath of independence. In her contribution to the book  <i>C.A.S.A. \u2013 Casablanca Art School Archives 1962\u20131987<\/i> (Zam\u00e2n Books), Salma Lahlou reflects on the innovative nature of her teaching at the time. <i>\u201cMaraini,\u201d<\/i> she writes, <i>\u201cwas thus undoubtedly the first in the entire history of Morocco [\u2026] to teach a course in modern art history\u2014and, moreover, from a transhistorical perspective, reaching back to prehistory, and a transcultural one, bringing together African and Mediterranean movements (embodied by the school\u2019s own professors) and European movements, notably the Bauhaus and Paul Klee\u2026\u201d<\/i> <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-57ec7b2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"57ec7b2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-85ca907 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"85ca907\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"983\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/3-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-21561\" alt=\"Toni Maraini teaches art history at the Casablanca School of Fine Arts, 1965. Photo: Mohamed Melehi, courtesy of the Toni Maraini Archives.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/3-1.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/3-1-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/3-1-1024x671.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/3-1-768x503.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">Toni Maraini teaches art history at the Casablanca Art School, 1965. Photo: Mohamed Melehi, courtesy of the Toni Maraini Archives. <\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-45b001b elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"45b001b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fbeb056 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"fbeb056\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>In an interview she granted us during the Fontainebleau Art History Festival\u2014which featured Morocco as its guest of honor last June\u2014Toni Maraini reflected on her pedagogical approach: <i>\u201cMy classes began with an overview of Morocco and prehistory, without which it is difficult to understand the significance of the sites and artifacts of Ancient Morocco, its role as a bridge between Africa, the East, and the Mediterranean, as well as the spread of certain forms, materials, and symbols that have since been inscribed, as Khatibi wrote, in a \u2018tattooed memory\u2019 [\u2026]. I would then trace a journey through the art and history of the various eras and artistic productions that the students\u2014given the education they received under the Protectorate\u2014knew little about, just as they knew little about the main landmarks of Moroccan history.\u201d <\/i> <\/p><p>Her interest in folk arts, approached from both aesthetic and historical perspectives, and her reflections on the points of convergence between what are conventionally termed the East and the West\u2014in the tradition of art historian Hans Belting\u2019s <i>Florence and Baghdad: Renaissance Art and Arab Science<\/i> (Harvard University Press), and her consistently critical eye undoubtedly make Toni Maraini an indispensable figure for understanding the challenges of art history in Morocco, a history that continues to be actively written.  <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Historian and art critic Toni Maraini, who taught at the Casablanca Art School from 1964 to 1972, is the guest of honor at the 47th edition of the Assilah International Cultural Moussem. 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