Mahi Binebine (Morocco)

 

Mahi Binebine is a painter, sculptor and writer. Born in Marrakech, Binebine lived in Paris and New York before returning to settle in Morocco. His pic­to­rial work, cen­tered on the human figure, evokes the vio­lence and ten­sions of the Eastern and Western worlds and the tragic sit­u­a­tion of human beings

A major painter of his gen­er­a­tion, Mahi Binebine con­stantly explores the issue of humanity and extreme con­di­tions. His fig­ures, reduced to sil­hou­ettes, inter­twining and col­liding bodies, are locked in but unde­feated. They inhabit a hos­tile and trou­bling world. Of great plastic beauty, rich in ten­sion and con­fronta­tion, the work of Binebine evokes lone­li­ness and despair, but also har­mony and joy. Influenced by artists such as Goya, Picasso and Bacon, Mahi Binebine con­stantly explores the strength and dig­nity of the human face of horror and despair.

His work has been shown in France, Germany, and the United States. It has been noticed by impor­tant art critics and is part of numerous public and pri­vate col­lec­tions, including the Guggenheim Museum in New York; Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris; Museum of African Contemporary Art, Marrakech; Kinda Foundation for Contemporary Arab Art, Riyad, Saudi Arabia; Kamel Lazaar Foundation, Tunis, Tunisia; Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul art Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon; Marrakech Museum, Marrakech, Morocco.