Abderrahmane Rahoule | Artist

Abderrahmane Rahoule, born in 1944 in the Derb Soltane, an emblematic district of Casablanca, developed an early interest in the fine arts, which were to become central to his life and career.
After completing a first cycle of higher education at the Beaux-arts de Casablanca, he completed his studies with a diploma at the École supérieure des Arts industriels et des Métiers d'art of Paris, at the height of the 1968 emulation movement.
He continued to develop his practical research during further training courses in the Netherlands and then in Czechoslovakia.
On his return to Casablanca, he began teaching at the Beaux-arts de Casablanca before taking over as director in 2003.
A committed and discreet artist, he is one of the rare visual artists of his generation to develop, with the same rigour and mastery, a dual practice as painter and sculptor, but also as theorist-pedagogue and artist, Abderrahman Rahoule creates anthropomorphic forms, often entwined, inspired by the architecture of Casablanca.
An active member of the Casablanca School Group, Rahoule is also an informed witness to the birth of contemporary Moroccan art in the 1960s.