“There are so many stories and each story is a discovery, you just try to connect the dots…” Morad Montazami is talking about the rich and complex history of the Casablanca Art School – a seat of learning but also a place of revolution and rule-breaking that ultimately became synonymous with an entire cultural movement. It is also the subject of a new exhibition Montazami co-curated at Tate St Ives in Cornwall.
is the first major museum exhibition dedicated to the school and has been a long time in the planning; research has taken place piecemeal over the last 10 years. Works by more than 20 artists, most of which are vivid, avant-garde paintings teeming with colour and a pleasing, generous use of shape, are worthy of a
