Marrakech Museum of Art

In the calendar of its temporary exhibitions, the Museum of Art de Vivre in Marrakech opens its new cultural season with an exhibition devoted to the art of the garden in Morocco. Being a great lover of gardens, cacti in the first place, with great pleasure I write on this topic, more and more present in Morocco. The man, from his sedentary worked and modified landscapes. And it has created others. On the thread of time, farming techniques and diversification of cultures and the creation of new plant varieties with biotechnology and breeding techniques have changed and enriched prondamente flora around the world.

The Gardens

If the creation of a garden depends on the sun and weather, owes much to the cultural terrain on which it develops and historical era to which they belong. It can be said that a garden is a synthesis of physicality, of natural pictures, geography, history and culture. The gardens are a reflection of the civilization that saw them born, is not important in this example the names of territories and cultures that created them: Islamic gardens, Andalusian, Japanese, English, French, Italian. So fragile, the gardens have already known by ancient civilizations in different times, are sometimes able to cross time and witness the genes that have created these masterpieces. Dell'Agdal Gardens, Majorelle, Versailles, Doctors, and many others are excellent illustrations the size of their creators. Morocco, the crossroads between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, is characterized by diversity dali landscape and its different climates.

The Sahara

Ref in dense forests, dunes in the Sahara, the Middle Atlas cedraie, visitors discover the Moroccan different situations, both natural and cultivated by man. Due to these differences, primarily the climate, the gardener is always plenty of opportunity to give free rein to his imagination by creating gardens to dream, to relate and love. It reaches the point of view two types of gardens coexist mixandosi in a unique fusion, creating a new form of movement. The photographers participating in the exhibition, Nourddine Tilsaghani Hassan Nadim, Abdellah Mahmoud and Abderrazzak Benchaâmane, have traveled all over the realm Moroccan photographing both the public and private gardens. Their goal is to claim the garden as an ecological and natural heritage, enhancing an art of living in harmony with the nature of Morocco. The exhibition will be visible until 30 November 2011.