الفنان مولاي يوسف الكهعفي

– واقعيته / تشخيصيته الجديدة

Moulay Youssef Elkahfai was born in 1969 in Marrakesh, Morocco, where he lives and works. He is speaker at the Visual Arts High School of Marrakesh. He teaches engraving and lithography.

In 1993 he was graduated from the National Fine Arts of Tetuan, Morocco. He is an artist who has a lot of facets as he is a painter, an engraver and a sculptor. In 2003 his drawing gifts pushed him to deepen his knowledge in the engraving field, completing his works as a painter. This passion gave birth to a printing floor dedicated to creation for many other artists.

Elkahfai offers an other way to tackle art, the way of form legitimacy as pictural language, the reverse side of resemblance. He is overwhelmed by art as a powerful way of expression in his whole life.For more than twenty years in this career, Elkahfai is nowadays very well known in the moroccan atistic landscape ,and his paintings may be found in many collections, national and international as well

Born in Marrakesh in 1969
Lives and works in Marrakech
National School of Fine Arts in Tetouan in 1993.
Training etching and lithography
Speaking at the ESAV 2010

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS

2009 Dar Chrifa Marrakech
2008 These people Shart Gallery Casablanca Morocco
2007 Noir Sur Blanc Gallery Marrakech
2006 Amanjena, Hôtel Marrakech
2004 Red and White, Dar Cherifa Gallery, Marrakech
2002 Opening of the gallery Qoubba, Marrakech
Tangier, The Robinson
2001 La Mamounia hôtel, Marrakech
2000 Carrefour des arts. Casablanca
1999 Carrefour des arts . Marrakech
Golf Beach. Tétouan
1998 Jacaranda. Marrakech
1997 caréffour des Arts. Casablanca
1995 Flandria Tanjah Art Gallery
1990 Avicenna military hospital of Marrakech
1987 Lycée Moussa bin Nossaïr

GROUP EXHIBITION

2010 NORT ART KIC Germany
Rencontre Mazagan (art du maroc)
Instalation au Jardin Art Marrakech
2009 Biennale Internazionale dell’Arte Contemporanea of Florence Italy
2009 Los caprichos de Goya instituto Cervantes
2009 Atelier de Gravure Assilah
2009 Exposition d’estampes point&line Marrakech
2008 Biennale de Marrakech
2008 Dé marche Dar Chrifa Marrakech
2007 Open Art, Atelier Grognard, Association les seize anges, Paris France

2010 Meeting Mazagan (art of Morocco)
Instalation ( Primitif Garden) Art in the Garden. Marrakech
Biennale Internazionale dell’Arte Contemporanea in 2009 of Florence Italy
2009 Los Caprichos de Goya Instituto Cervantes
2009 Workshop of Engraving Assilah
2009 Exhibition of poit & line Galerry. Marrakech
2008 Biennale of Marrakech
March 2008 De Dar Marrakesh Chrifa
2007 Open Art Workshop Veteran Association sixteen angels, Paris France
March 2008 De Dar Marrakesh Chrifa
2007 Open Art Workshop Veteran Association sixteen angels, Paris France
Back to figuration, GNAP Ministry of Culture, Mohamed El Fassi room Raba
2006 Painters of Marrakech, the Atlassides Gallery, Marrakech
The painters of Tetouan, the Atlassides Gallery, Marrakech
Faces of Morocco, Musée Henri Martin in Cahors France
The Meson Alcayna, Murcia, Spain.
2005 Casablanca. Auction
Voûte païenne, Bordeaux, France, Association peintre sans frontières 4 + 1, Gallery Dar Cherifa, Marrakech.
2004 Red and White, Gallery Dar Cherifa Marrakech.
Moroccan Contemporary Painting in Aix-en-Provence, France
The Gallery Qoubba. Marrakech
2003 The gallery blue Marrakesh
The Gallery Qoubba. Marrakech
2002 Exhibition of Miniature. Marrakech.
“7 +1” Drawing. Gallery. Marrakech.
2001 Opera Theatre under the Marrakesh COP7.

Exhibition of drawings. Gallery Bab Doukkala. Marrakech.
Time of Morocco in France.
1998 Jacaranda. Marrakech.
Bab Doukkala Gallery. Marrakech.
1997 Exhibition of drawings. Bab Doukkala Gallery. Marrakech
1996 Palais des congrès. Marrakech
Mouassine 1995. Marrakech.
U.S. delegation. Tangier.
House of Culture. Marrakech
1994 Flandria Tanjah Art Gallery.
Marbella Club Hotel. Spain.
Bab Doukkala Gallery. Marrakech.
1993 Honor to Aziz Abu Ali, a Marrakech painter who died in
Madrid, the “Al Fakhar gallery.
Benet contest to gallery Bertuchi Tetouan.
Tangier under the gaze of painters to the gallery Flandria.
1992 Marathon Plastics in E. N.B.A. Tetouan.
National Arts Festival organized by Vision magazine.
Painters from Marrakech to Casablanca Hotel “Idou Anfa.
The “Al Fakhar gallery. Tetouan.
Mediterranean Festival, “workshops of Tetouan.
1991 The House of Culture of Essaouira.
Drawing exhibition in honor of “Al Fakhar” to ENBA Tetouan.
1990 Avicenna military hospital of Marrakech
Palais des Congres in Marrakech.
1988 1st Exhibition of the Great Maghreb Jnan El harti . Marrakech.

Edition
Several editions of lithographs and engravings Workshop Téghduine
Collections
His works are in major collections in Morocco and abroad: France, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Japan, Mexico, China, Lithuania, Canada, London, New York …