Tatah - Matisse, Untitled

par Philippe  -  25 Mars 2024, 08:23

Djamel Tatah, ''Untitled'', (2009)

Djamel Tatah, ''Untitled'', (2009)

Exhibition at the Matisse museum until May 27th 2024, 164 arenas street, 06364 Nice Cedex 4, daily open except Thursdays (10am - 5pm), phone : 04.93.81.08.08, ticket full price : 10€.

 

A part of the Matisse collection is now highlighted in Japan and the French artist Djamel Tatah takes advantage of this event for taking control of the museum and building a kind of continuity with the master work. The people moving in can be surprised when they don't watch some of the usual shiny paintings but canvas and drawings in black and white showing us the Matisse obsession for patterns looking for all the times about gestures and their variations. The Tatah painting seems following the same way with something clean, sober but including a political commitment. It can be find inside the oriental and colonial imaginary. Matisse belongs to the orientalism movement before the middle of the 20th century and he used topics owing by it like desert, huntings or women in turkish baths. The Matisse women odalisques are voluptuous, sensuals and lying on beds. At the opposite Tatah paints isolated and covered bodies. He also represents an immigrant face staying on the ground may be dead speaking about the tragedies of those who let their birth country down for constructing a better life in western countries. Matisse and Tatah follow differents ways with the same goal being free men.

An Odalisque painted by Matisse in 1923.

An Odalisque painted by Matisse in 1923.

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