Mahjoub ben bella biography books
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MAHJOUB BEN BELLA PASSED AWAY IN THE MORNING OF JUNE 11, 2020.
The artist Mahjoub Ben Bella died yesterday morning in Lille, surrounded by his relatives, after a long and courageous fight against the disease.
Claude and France Lemand share the grief of his family and join his many friends, artists, collectors, art historians and museum curators around the world, to present to his wife Brigitte and to his children Souhir and Nadgib our deepest condolences and express our admiration and loyalty to the great painter and to his so generous and radiant personality.
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Claude Lemand.
Mahjoub Ben Bella was born in the Western part of Algeria, in Maghnia, in 1946. He did his artistic training first at the School of Fine Arts of Oran, then in Tourcoing and finally in Paris, and settled in France. Ben Bella is a multi-faceted artist, producing monumental artworks, painting ceramics, objects, in addition to large and small paintings on canvas, on paper, panel or even on stone, as well as performances and monumental compositions for public spaces. His works have been exhib
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Mahjoub Ben Bella : Lumière d’or
As much Algerian as he was French, Mahjoub Ben Bella went into exile in France in 1965, the year in which his illustrious uncle, Ahmed Ben Bella, the first President of free Algeria and a hero of the war of independence, was overthrown by a coup. This political filiation, which is barely discernible in Ben Bella's works, and which should not influence our vision of them, remains however fundamental to understand his trajectory, his geographical and historical identity - a certain uprooting. For there is nothing insignificant about having had to make a life for oneself in "metropolitan France" at a time at which one's native land had just been liberated from over a century of colonisation.
Ben Bella attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Oran, Algeria, before pursuing his training in French art schools, initially in Paris, before settling in northern France. In the early 1970s, he attended the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, which welcomed artists from Algeria, Lebanon, and Syria... Samta Benyahia, Nadia Saikali and Abdulkader Arnaout trained there at the same time as Ben Bella, who, amongst other innovations, produced studded paintings; a playful and provocative gesture, a desire to augment the work
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Mahjoub BEN BELLA, PAINTINGS.
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