Monographie - Tracing Morocco - Hendrik Beikirch

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TR ACING MOROCCO Copyright Š 2015 Hendrik Beikirch & Montresso Ar t Foundation Design et montage : Alexander Sturm Tex tes : JLH, Rut tkowski;68, Fondation Car tier Traduc tion : bizz communications Postproduc tion images : Timo Stammberger, Rober t Winter Première publication en 2015 par : Montresso Ar t Foundation Route des Jeunes 4 1227 Genève les Acacias Suisse TÊl. : 212 (0)6 15 64 01 35 info@montresso.com www.montresso.com ISBN : 978-9954-36-392-8 DÊpôt lÊgal : 2015MO3660 dÊcembre 2015 ISSN : 2458-696X Litho Ar t New à Turin, en novembre 2015. Tous droits rÊser vÊs. Cet te publication ne peut être reproduite ImprimÊ en Italie.

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HERITAGE

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At a time when galloping globalization is making the slightest gestures

in our daily lives become uniform, paying homage to these Moroccans,

gestes de vie, rendre hommage Ă ces Marocains, travailleurs manuels

craf tsmen whose gestures and knowledge will soon be lost to us too,

could not leave us unmoved.

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avons oubliÊ notre première rencontre, nous ne nous connaissions

more, this encounter was ultimately the result of chance, which as we

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with a posed por trait, perhaps lacking some convic tion, on a canvas

monde avec un por trait posĂŠ sans convic tion peut-ĂŞtre, sur une toile

provided for him; then he lef t us as he had come, without our having

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agreed what might develop out of this visit. Only later did he get

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at Jardin Rouge he met these first unforget table faces that would

croisÊ, chez nous à Jardin Rouge, ces premières gueules inoubliables

become the connec ting theme for the idea that is now presented in

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this book, with no pretensions other than to share them. They were

what he came back for, curious to follow up on this first encounter that

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roads that were still barely tarmacked tracks, I discovered almost on

les routes encore des pistes Ă peine asphaltĂŠes avec la 4L de Paul,

my own Taroudant, Essaouira, Marrakech, and much later Ouarzazate

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and Zagora.

après Ouar zazate et Zagora.

The architec ture and the landscapes were most fascinating to me,

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yet more fascinating still are the traditional craf tsmen whom I was

almost immediately drawn to. I remember the workshops, the souks,

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the shops deep in the medinas, the fields where we met these tireless

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workers seemingly come from an earlier centur y to pass on their

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knowledge to the apprentices surrounding them in silent respect for

their maâlem [master]. This was a dif ferent epoch, the atmosphere

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was captivating. To me, Morocco is first and foremost these women

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and men who pass on these traditional handicraf ts from generation

perpĂŠtuaient de gĂŠnĂŠrations en gĂŠnĂŠrations, les traditions manuelles.

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able to discover this world that had already almost been forgot ten,

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and today almost disappeared. All my thoughts go out to passionate

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maâlems would not still be as alive for me today. It was they who

obser ver, à comprendre, à mÊmoriser, comme autant de leçons de

pushed me, still too young, to obser ve, understand, memorize like

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lessons in life, these gestures and talents that sadly are slowly no

plus se transmet tre et seront bientĂ´t oubliĂŠs. Merci FrĂŠdĂŠric, merci

longer being handed down and will soon be forgot ten. Thank you

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FrĂŠdĂŠric, thank you Marcel-Yves and Toni, thank you Jean-Pierre and

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thank you Farid Belkahia, for being the first person to open my eyes to

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Moroccan modern ar t. And many more too, whom I have not forgot ten

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and who are thanked by this homage to these personages who have crossed all our lives.

Une des par ticularitĂŠs communes de ces Malems se lit sur leurs

One of the common features of these maâlems can be read on their

faces, forged and marked by life. Faces that seem almost car ved with

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lines and folds, marked by the suf fering inflic ted by a life of labour

that is of ten hard yet still optimistic and noble, eyes that tell of their

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pride and faith and that, regardless of the fatigue, always remain deep and alive.

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had fascinated him on his first visit. We discovered each other. Hendrik

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drives him. For a long time, I had had the unfulfilled idea of recording

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to bring to it. Hendrik took to the idea right away: photographing the

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immortalizing the man or woman. To pay homage to these unforgettable

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taking refuge in it, making it his own. It became the sole purpose of two

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“casting� if we may call it that, the first por traits, the idea for the book

and lastly, persuading those responsible for buildings around the

world to let us display the por traits of these women and men, to paint

our homage to their knowledge and skill onto these walls in the four

coins du monde, les por traits de ces femmes et de ces hommes,

corners of the world as our way of honouring and immortalizing them.

peindre notre hommage à leur savoir-faire, comme notre façon de les honorer et de les immor taliser.

In this respec t, we must thank all of these people for trusting us and entrusting us with their faces. None of the images were “snatched�.

Alors, il convient de tous les remercier de nous avoir fait confiance

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but instead, have sought to immor talize in this testament.

mais immor talisĂŠ dans ce tĂŠmoignage.

At a ver y young age, I was of ten lucky enough to meet RenĂŠ Char. From time to time, I was allowed to come and pay him a silent visit

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at his home. I par ticipated in set ting up the

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THE POWER OF THE PORTRAIT

LE POUVOIR DU PORTRAIT

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Hendrik Beikirch creates black-and-white por traits of people whose

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personalities or facial expressions have captured his interest. The

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Beikirch has an uncanny ability to capture their soul. His art transcends

Beikirch possède une aptitude singulière à saisir leur moi intime.

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expec tations and demands self-ref lec tion. It gives pleasure and

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generates debate. This is what makes his work fascinating, engrossing

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and uncomfor table at once.

dĂŠrangeante.

We live in times when ageing must be fended of f at any cost. That

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cult of narcissism has now reached another level through the Selfie

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(selfies) then share them on social media. They assess themselves

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critically to create photos that show them at their best.

sociaux dans des poses avantageuses.

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youth and per fec tion. For one thing, they t ypically show the elderly,

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a demographic we of ten neglec t. Secondly, unlike the digital selfies,

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Although Beikirch is only 41 years old, he is fascinated by older

Ă€ 41 ans seulement, Beikirch est fascinĂŠ par le visage des personnes

faces and personalities because of the lives they reflec t: the ups and

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downs, hope and disappointment s. Some of the people por trayed

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appear to look direc tly at the viewer; others look toward unknown

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places out side the frame. No mat ter which por trait you look at, the

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eyes are always the most striking feature — they are the window to

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that the eyes are the window to the soul,� says Beikirch.

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not bit ter; they radiate satisfac tion without being ef fusive. And they

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have wrinkles which they show proudly, let ting the lines speak for

discrète. Leurs rides, ils les montrent avec fier tÊ, laissant ces petites

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does not allow for pinpoint accuracy but reflec ts his background

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compare Beikirch à August Sander, un reprÊsentant de la première

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totalitarian leadership. Instead, Sander uses por traiture to illustrate

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a countr y torn apar t by the politics of the time. Men, women and

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mouvement, isolĂŠs ou en groupe, seuls lui impor tait leur authenticitĂŠ

mat ter who they were as long as long as they were authentic and had

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la Seconde Guerre mondiale, mais aussi la guerre elle-mĂŞme et les

period up to, during, and af ter World War II. They reflec t the mentalit y

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A DIFFERENT HYPERREALISM

UN AUTRE HYPERRÉALISME

Tex t: Grazia Quaroni, Senior Curator, Fondation Car tier

Tex te : Grazia Quaroni, Conser vateur, Fondation Car tier

It is par ticularly dif ficult to know if a 50 -m-high human face can be

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pas leur carac tère rÊaliste, au contraire il en ressor t accentuÊ. Le

strongly. The por trait does not change, but the genre is re-invented,

por trait ne change pas, mais le genre est rĂŠinventĂŠ, reformulĂŠ : le

re-formulated: urban graf fiti, street ar t has got ten us used to st ylized

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lines, synthetic and rapid, and to content that is of ten provocative.

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