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AL HAMRA contemporary art projects is a plural artistic initiative promoted by a group of architects and visual artists in order to reclaim and recover the ornamental characteristic motifs of al-Andalus Muslim art, well as of the 'az-zulaiy' and the 'zillij' or 'zellige' traditions of the Mediterranean shores, reinterpreting formally turn, from the point of view of its own present, as contemporary and avant-garde elements for a new art creation, mainly related to pure geometric abstraction.


August 24, 2013

NEW Exhibition: the ZILLIJ art collection

This new art collection of abstract paintings, created with oil colours on large square canvases by AL HAMRA contemporary art projects, is based on the Zellige, the traditional art and craft of Moroccan mosaics and tessellations, influenced by historical Nasrid period of ornamental and geometric decorations in the muslim Al-Andalus countries. Zillij art collection, is a tribute to its designers and craftsmen, who still today keep an old tradition full of artistic modernity.

At the same time, in AL HAMRA's own artwork there is an exploration of kinship between the geometric abstraction of Western art and the millennium-old tradition of Islamic abstraction.

(To see more exhibited paintings, click on link image of the Zillij series catalogue)

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