Discover the creation in interiors
Artwork details
- Medium : Acrylic, Pastel on Canvas
- Other details : Artwork on supported wooden frame. Artwork framed.
- Dimensions : 39.4x31.5in
About this artwork
In this work from the Shores series, the composition is constructed like a layer of memory between sky, sea, and sand. A wide calligraphic band, almost buried in the texture, crosses the pictorial space like an underwater current laden with signs. The letters dilute, overlap, and fade in places, evoking an ancestral writing that time and the marine elements have patinated.
The misty purple of the sky, the diffuse turquoise, and the sandy hues create… an abstract, almost cosmic landscape. Two white diamonds float like beacons, reinforcing the idea of orientation or reference in a shifting space. Black threads, resembling roots or fault lines, add an organic and fragile dimension to the whole.
This work embodies the heart of the concept of CALLIABSTRACTION: an intimate dialogue between the Arabic letter and the informal, between memory of place and pictorial gesture, between structure and erasure.
The misty purple of the sky, the diffuse turquoise, and the sandy hues create… an abstract, almost cosmic landscape. Two white diamonds float like beacons, reinforcing the idea of orientation or reference in a shifting space. Black threads, resembling roots or fault lines, add an organic and fragile dimension to the whole.
This work embodies the heart of the concept of CALLIABSTRACTION: an intimate dialogue between the Arabic letter and the informal, between memory of place and pictorial gesture, between structure and erasure.
Abdelkader Kamal
Morocco
Credentials
- Experienced Artist
- Works on commission
« We must do what we like so that others like what we do. »
Abdelkader Kamal is a Moroccan visual artist, born in 1970 in El Jadida, where he lives and works. Winner of the Mohammed VI Grand Prize for Excellence in Calligraphic Painting in 2019, he is recognized for his unique approach, which fuses Arabic calligraphy and contemporary abstraction in a language he calls CALLIABSTRACTION.
His work explores the letter as a plastic material and symbol of memory, confronting it with the textures, transparencies, and gestural dynamics of abstraction. Nourished by his attachment to the coastal environment of El Jadida, Abdelkader Kamal constructs interior landscapes where the calligraphic sign becomes a trace, a wave, a breath.
He has participated in numerous individual and group exhibitions in Morocco and internationally, notably at the French Institute of El Jadida, the National Salon of Contemporary Art (Marrakech, Casablanca), the OCP cultural complex, as well as in Dubai and Rabat.
His work explores the letter as a plastic material and symbol of memory, confronting it with the textures, transparencies, and gestural dynamics of abstraction. Nourished by his attachment to the coastal environment of El Jadida, Abdelkader Kamal constructs interior landscapes where the calligraphic sign becomes a trace, a wave, a breath.
He has participated in numerous individual and group exhibitions in Morocco and internationally, notably at the French Institute of El Jadida, the National Salon of Contemporary Art (Marrakech, Casablanca), the OCP cultural complex, as well as in Dubai and Rabat.