Working across painting, sculpture, graphic design, architectural mural painting and many other media, the artists associated with the Casablanca Art School placed art into public spaces and promoted it as a shared experience. This landmark exhibition brings together works by more than twenty artists, to include vibrant, abstract paintings, urban murals, craft, typology, graphics and ceramics, alongside rarely seen print archives, vintage journals and photographs.
Morad Montazami
Morad Montazami is an art historian, editor, and exhibition curator. He was Middle East and North Africa research curator for the Tate Modern, London, from 2014 to 2019. He has since developed the publishing and curating platform Zamân Books & Curating, which studies and promotes Arab, African, and Asian modernities.
Madeleine de Colnet
Madeleine de Colnet is Curatorial Projects Director for Zamân Books & Curating.
Zamân Books & Curating
Zamân Books & Curating engages actively with different communities of cultural producers, researchers, curators, translators, archivists, writers and other narrators worldwide, sharing the same desire: to revive and celebrate their transcultural artistic heritages. There exhibitions document and give visibility to diverse artistic legacies from Arab, African and Asian modernities, neglected or marginalised until recently by mainstream art history and trend-setters institutions. These exhibitions based on rare artworks and archives are meant to travel and circulate through a network of institutions committed to the study of cultural decolonization and its extensions in the contemporary world.
Anne Barlow
Anne Barlow is Director of Tate St Ives where she oversees its programme of exhibitions, displays, artist residencies, new commissions, learning and research. Barlow was formerly Director of Art in General, New York, Curator of Education and Media Programs, New Museum, New York, and Curator of Contemporary Art and Design, Glasgow Museums, Scotland. She has published and lectured widely and was Curator of 5th Bucharest Biennale and Co-Curator of the Latvian Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale.
Giles Jackson
Giles Jackson has been Assistant Curator at Tate St Ives since 2018, where he has curated exhibitions and displays including: Hetain Patel (2023); Jonathan Michael Ray & Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (2022); Emily Speed (2020); and Mikhail Karikis (2019). Other exhibitions he has worked on include: Barbara Hepworth: Art & Life (2022); Thao Nguyen Phan (2022); Otobong Nkanga (2019); and Nashashibi/Skaer (2018). Formerly, he was Assistant Curator at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA). He has edited and written for numerous publications.
Tate St Ives is located on Porthmeor Beach. There is a ramp up to the gallery entrance alongside stairs with a handrail.
There are lifts to all Levels of the gallery, or alternatively you can take the stairs.
- Accessible and standard toilets are on Level 3, next to Gallery 6.
- A Changing Places toilet is on Level 3, next to Gallery 1.
- Ear defenders can be borrowed from the information desk.
To help plan your visit to Tate St Ives, have a look at our visual story. It includes photographs and information of what you can expect from a visit to the gallery.
For more information before your visit:
- Email visiting.stives@tate.org.uk
- Call +44 (0)173 679 6226