Hassan Slaoui

Hassan Slaoui – Fragment, 1980

Born in Fez in 1946, Hassan Slaoui studied between 1963 and 1980 at the École des arts appliqués and the École normale supérieure in Rabat, then at the Arts et Métiers in Paris and the Sorbonne.

He taught at the École nationale d'architecture in Rabat and participated in numerous artistic gatherings in Morocco and abroad. In 1974, he co-founded the Structure BS gallery with Karim Bennani, which exhibited artists such as Hamid Alaoui, Farid Belkahia, Fouad Bellamine, Mustapha Hafid, Mohamed Hamidi, and Miloud Labied, among others.

Also specializing in interior design, he created a 1.80 x 11.50 m ceramic bas-relief for the Office Chérifien des Phosphates.

Hassan Slaoui initially worked with ceramics before turning his attention to other materials such as wood, clay, and bone. He developed an experimental practice where matter is transformed into a space of plastic construction. His work is characterized by play with transparency, superposition, and interference, organized according to a rigorous structure. Situated between abstraction and figuration, his work explores a universe of signs, symbols, and graphics where the subject becomes secondary to matter, rhythm, and composition.