{"id":21584,"date":"2026-07-02T14:09:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T14:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/mustapha-boujemaoui-an-exhibition-that-makes-you-long-for-a-true-retrospective\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T16:45:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T16:45:14","slug":"mustapha-boujemaoui-an-exhibition-that-makes-you-long-for-a-true-retrospective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/en\/mustapha-boujemaoui-an-exhibition-that-makes-you-long-for-a-true-retrospective\/","title":{"rendered":"Mustapha Boujemaoui: An Exhibition That Makes You Long for a True Retrospective"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"21584\" class=\"elementor elementor-21584 elementor-15203\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-45e2662 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"45e2662\" 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-d326297 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d326297\" 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><b>The exhibition \u201cThe Poetics of Forms,\u201d dedicated to the painter Mustapha Boujemaoui, offers a glimpse\u2014albeit too brief\u2014of his 50-year career.  <\/b><\/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-a0069df elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"a0069df\" 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\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1971\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260317_143312-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-21589\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260317_143312-1.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260317_143312-1-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260317_143312-1-779x1024.jpg 779w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260317_143312-1-768x1009.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260317_143312-1-1169x1536.jpg 1169w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260317_143312-1-300x394.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f248688 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"f248688\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Mustapha Boujemaoui,<i> <i>Les jardins imaginaires<\/i><\/i>, 1988. Mixed media on canvas, 130x100 cm. Private collection of Youssef Bennani  \n<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-59f0129 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"59f0129\" 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-c78ac5f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c78ac5f\" 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 early life of Mustapha Boujemaoui, born in 1952 in Ahfir in the Oujda region, is relatively well known. After studying at the National School of Fine Arts in Tetouan, he moved to Brussels in the 1970s, then to the \u00c9cole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. The exhibition \u201cLa Po\u00e9tique des formes,\u201d presented by the Villa Carl Ficke-Mus\u00e9e de la m\u00e9moire in Casablanca, offers a brief overview of this early creative period. At that time, the artist liked to use paper or newspaper as his medium and created what he called \u201cpictocollages,\u201d sometimes <i>all-over<\/i>, in which a free-flowing poetics of the sign comes to the surface. It is difficult to discern what is at play in the genesis of a work that nevertheless strikes the viewer with its mastery of color and its abstract language.  <\/p><p>Boujemaoui returned to Morocco in 1982 to pursue a career as an art teacher, first at a high school in Oujda and later at the Regional Pedagogical Center and the National School of Architecture in Rabat. Several motifs, featured in the exhibition, then caught his attention. One of these was caravans, which he explored in particular in a 1994 acrylic on mounted newspaper that pays homage to Ibn Battuta. The composition here is based on an almost architectural spatial arrangement in which horizontal and vertical lines form frames open to the four winds, allowing the painter\u2019s free-flowing brushwork to be fully expressed.     <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7413d40 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"7413d40\" 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-1574e91 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"1574e91\" 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\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1128\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-21586\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2-1024x770.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2-768x578.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fe505e1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"fe505e1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Mustapha Boujemaoui, <i><i>The Caravan<\/i> (in gray)<\/i>, 1994. Acrylic, 58 x 80 cm. Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco, on loan MMVI  <\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3393334 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"3393334\" 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-f4ae9b4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f4ae9b4\" 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><b>A Hybrid Painting<\/b><\/p><p>To this first motif was added that of the tea glass, which would become his favorite subject. The painter then began, following in the footsteps of Fouad Bellamine, to push the boundaries of painting by blending it with a subtle form of installation art. A prime example of this is the 1991 oil on canvas, <i>Le Verre de Marie<\/i> <i> <\/i>, which features, in its upper central section, an authentic tea glass resting on a glass base. As Aziz Daki explained in 2008 in the catalog for the exhibition \u201cLes m\u00e9tamorphoses de ma vie\u201d presented at the L\u2019Atelier 21 gallery, the artist paints and sometimes even glues tea leaves onto the canvas, which are revealed in a multitude of brushstrokes that cause the motif to appear and disappear.  <\/p><p>This technique shines through in one of the exhibition\u2019s most beautiful paintings,<i> <i>Les jardins imaginaires<\/i> <\/i>(1988), in which the glass motif appears to be swept away by a whirlwind of colorful brushstrokes. This dual focus on repetition\u2014which can extend to seriality and the dilution of the motif\u2014 is also evident in a recent painting from 2020 dedicated to the figure of Al-Boraq, which is not unlike the angels to which the painter has also devoted so much of his work.<\/p><p>Often describing himself as a painter-researcher, Boujemaoui also strikes us as a painter-player, taking turns to play with the laws of representation and the aniconic tradition of painting. This approach deserves a retrospective worthy of the name\u2014perhaps at the Mohammed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rabat?   <\/p><p><b>Exhibition <\/b><b><i>The Poetics of Forms<\/i><\/b><b> by Mustapha Boujemaoui, Villa Carl Ficke \u2013 Casablanca Museum of Memory, through November 30, 2026<\/b><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b6ca028 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"b6ca028\" 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-3cd32b9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"3cd32b9\" 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\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1526\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-21587\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4-295x300.jpg 295w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4-1007x1024.jpg 1007w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4-768x781.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4-300x305.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b916fc7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"b916fc7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Mustapha Boujemaoui, <i><i>La Caravane<\/i> No. 3: Homage to Ibn Battuta<\/i>, 1994. Acrylic on mounted newspaper, 150 x 150 cm.<br \/>Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco, on deposit MMVI \n<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-24b8902 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"24b8902\" 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-3ccd3b1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"3ccd3b1\" 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\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1479\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-21585\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1-300x296.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1-1024x1010.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1-768x757.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ad440d9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"ad440d9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Mustapha Boujemaoui, <i>Le Verre de Marie<\/i>, 1991. Oil on canvas, glass, and teacup, 130 x 130 cm. Artist\u2019s collection  \n<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-942f5b5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"942f5b5\" 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-8f9bd55 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"8f9bd55\" 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\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"2198\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260317_141815.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-21588\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260317_141815.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260317_141815-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260317_141815-699x1024.jpg 699w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260317_141815-768x1125.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260317_141815-1048x1536.jpg 1048w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260317_141815-1398x2048.jpg 1398w, https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260317_141815-300x440.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9fad380 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"9fad380\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Mustapha Boujemaoui, <i>Pictocollage<\/i>, 1975. Mixed media on canvas, 65x50 cm. Private collection of Youssef Bennani    \n<\/h2>\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>The exhibition \u201cThe Poetics of Forms,\u201d dedicated to the painter Mustapha Boujemaoui, offers a glimpse\u2014albeit too brief\u2014of his 50-year career. By Olivier Rachet Mustapha Boujemaoui, Les jardins imaginaires, 1988. Mixed media on canvas, 130&#215;100 cm. Private collection of Youssef Bennani The early life of Mustapha Boujemaoui, born in 1952 in Ahfir in the Oujda region, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21587,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1598],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibition"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mustapha Boujemaoui: An Exhibition That Makes You Long for a True Retrospective &#8212; Diptykmag<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.diptykmag.com\/en\/mustapha-boujemaoui-an-exhibition-that-makes-you-long-for-a-true-retrospective\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mustapha Boujemaoui: An Exhibition That Makes You Long for a True Retrospective &#8212; Diptykmag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The exhibition \u201cThe Poetics of Forms,\u201d dedicated to the painter Mustapha Boujemaoui, offers a glimpse\u2014albeit too brief\u2014of his 50-year career. 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