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HATEM EL MEKKI HATEM EL MEKKI

HATEM EL MEKKI, Tunisia (1918 - 2003)

Bio

Born in 1918 in Batavia, the former name of Jakarta, Indonesia, to a Tunisian father and an Indonesian mother, Hatem El Mekki visited his father’s homeland for the first time in 1924 and stayed...

Born in 1918 in Batavia, the former name of Jakarta, Indonesia, to a Tunisian father and an Indonesian mother, Hatem El Mekki visited his father’s homeland for the first time in 1924 and stayed there. He pursued his education at lycée Carnot in Tunis before the government granted him a scholarship to study in Paris, where he resided at the Cité Internationale des Arts during the 1930s. The artist settled in Tunis in 1951 and started developing his style. El Mekki is an artist who lived multiple historical events that marked his memory and vision of life. He would create a unique style combining his formal artistic training with the art of ‘batik’ – Indonesian printing technique on cloths – to represent what he experienced. With abstracted forms and implicated lines, he applied warm colors to make the scenes intense and sometimes severe. His work revealed hard times like French colonization portraying particular attention to the expressions of the characters. Hatem El Mekki passed away in 2003 in Carthage, Tunisia.


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CV

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024

On The Roster: Highlighting Elmarsa Gallery's Represented Artists, Elmarsa, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Arab Presences: Modern Art And Decolonisation: Paris 1908-1988, Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, Paris, France

2023

Partisans of the Nude: An Arab Art Genre in an Era of Contest, 1920-1960, Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, USA

2018

Revolution generations, Arab Museum of Modern Art (Mathaf), Doha, Qatar
L’École de Tunis: an introduction, Elmarsa Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
A Century in Flux: Highlights from the Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

2017

Lines of Subjectivity: Portrait and Landscape Paintings, Jordan National Gallery, Amman, Jordan

2016

The Short Century: Works from the collection of Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah Museum, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Yesterday is tomorrow’s memory: a group show of work from North Africa, Elmarsa Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

1932

Claridge Fine Art Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Publications

1989

Hatim Elmekki, L’homme et l’œuvre

1980

Hatim Elmekki, Hatim Elmekki, ou, La tentation du péché

Collections

Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foudation, Beirut, Lebanon
Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar

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Press
رحيل عميد التشكيليين التونسيين حاتم المكي .pdf
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تورس _ ” المكي راما” شريط وثائقي قصير حول الفنان التشكيلي الراحل حاتم المكي.pdf
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حاتم المكي.. بين جاوة وقرطاج _ محسن العوني.pdf
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Hatim Elmekki _ Barjeel Art Foundation.pdf
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«نجوم» ومثقفون بلا سيارات ولا تلفزيون أو جوال!  مجلة سيدتي.pdf
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ALARAB.pdf
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Videos
THE NUDE Part 2 Sexuality
THE NUDE Part 1 Divinity
THE NUDE: BETWEEN DIVINITY, SEXUALITY, AND CONFLICT
Leads & Artistic Cues from the Arab World
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Exhibitions
REVOLUTION GENERATIONS
Yesterday is tomorrow's memory: a group show of work from North Africa
A CENTURY IN FLUX
Lines of Subjectivity: Portrait and Landscape Paintings’
The Short Century

HATEM EL MEKKI Artwork

Arrestation du Christ

HATEM EL MEKKI, Tunisia, 1952
172 x 93.5 cm

Abstraction

HATEM EL MEKKI, Tunisia, N.D.
120 x 198 cm

Portrait de Gorgi

HATEM EL MEKKI, Tunisia, 1952
63.5 x 48.5 cm

Maternité au Jeune Loup

HATEM EL MEKKI, Tunisia, 1951
150.5 x 100 cm

Homme Couché

HATEM EL MEKKI, Tunisia, 1953
49.5 x 65 cm

Visage

HATEM EL MEKKI, Tunisia, 1963
75 x 89.5 cm

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