Painter, architect and in love with light, Amara Ghrab is at the heart of a retrospective exhibition organized by the Maison des Arts under the aegis of the Ministry of Cultural Affairs.
It is from February 15 to March 15 that the public will have the opportunity to rediscover the plastic work of the artist and architect Amara Ghrab. A retrospective exhibition will indeed be welcomed by the Maison des Arts at the Belvedere to salute the memory of this cultural personality.
Died in 2023 at the age of 78, Amara Ghrab is indeed this painter and architect in love with light, a description that suits him as a grace glove. This fascination for light crosses the whole of the work of Amara Ghrab also qualified by the same pen, that of his wife Nadia Ghrab, of “dreamer suspended between heaven and earth”.
In fact, the creations of this artist are always nimpted by a delicate aura which imbued the space of the canvas or sublime architectural volumes. And it is this lightness that is both imperceptible and diffuses that a book and a retrospective exhibition try to grasp in tribute to an extraordinary artist.
Because Amara Ghrab knew how to give birth to corollas of emotion with a simple drawing, a gouache or an inspired text. His works are of the same vein as those of Gorgi, Turki and Dhahak, in the same palette as those of the Belkhodja, Sarfati and Farhat. In his eclectic way, Amara Ghrab is an artist of synthesis at the confluence of two generations, several techniques and deeply Tunisian inspirations.
This profusion which is born from the desire to express the beauty of a real dressed in light turns out to be the first impression that we feel by leafing through the album that Nadia Ghrab has just devoted to her. Entitled “Amara Ghrab: painter and architect in love with light”, this work has just appeared in a very beautiful edition produced in the Simpact workshops.
Designed and deployed by Nadia Ghrab, this book brings together many works by the artist and several contributions which help to identify the originality of an approach indeed in love with light. Faouzia Sahli, Hichem Ben Ammar and Amor Ghedamsi sign contributions that light up several aspects of Ghrab’s work. They complete with their texts the Ariane thread woven by Nadia, his wife, and project us into this “silent aura” which surrounds a man and his work.
This 150 -page album is completed by a large retrospective exhibition organized at the Maison des Arts under the aegis of the Ministry of Cultural Affairs. This just institutional recognition thus confirms and expands the work of memory initiated by the book which has just appeared.
Entitled “Trance lines”, the Amara Ghrab retrospective will be visible from February 15 to March 15 and should allow us to go back in the light of the artist’s works. Two years after its disappearance, this tribute arrives at a time-hood while young artists rediscover the singularity of Amara Ghrab and the art of geometric and floating composition at the same time, which affirms its turn.
See you on Saturday February 15 at the Maison des Arts for a moment of reunion and meditation doubled in immersion in a work from the depths of a soul in search of spirituality and light.
