{"id":7438,"date":"2016-04-01T15:22:03","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T15:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/2016\/04\/street-artists-at-the-marrakech-biennale-urban-contemporary-public\/"},"modified":"2022-12-05T15:47:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T14:47:31","slug":"street-artists-at-the-marrakech-biennale-urban-contemporary-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/de\/2016\/04\/street-artists-at-the-marrakech-biennale-urban-contemporary-public\/","title":{"rendered":"Street Artists at the Marrakech Biennale: Urban, Contemporary &amp; Public"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"689\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/12-brooklyn-street-art-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-4-4-960x689.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/12-brooklyn-street-art-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-4-4-960x689.jpg 960w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/12-brooklyn-street-art-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-4-4-640x460.jpg 640w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/12-brooklyn-street-art-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-4-4-768x551.jpg 768w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/12-brooklyn-street-art-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-4-4.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><p><em><ins datetime=\"2016-04-04T12:38:49+00:00\">Street scene in the old city of Marrakech, photo \u00a9 Jaime Rojo<\/ins><\/em><\/p>\n<p>STREET ARTISTS AT THE MARRAKECH BIENNALE<\/p>\n<p>Marrakech\u2019s old city greets you with winding narrow streets, speeding Vespas and razor thin margins for passing. There are insistent vendors, pointed mountains of spices, piles of oranges, the fragrance of roses and argan oil, hammam massage offers, un-metered taxis, slowly clopping horse drawn carriages and plenty of scruffy cats sitting in doorways and lying in patches of sun.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"693\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-brooklyn-street-art-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-1-4-960x693.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-brooklyn-street-art-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-1-4-960x693.jpg 960w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-brooklyn-street-art-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-1-4-640x462.jpg 640w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-brooklyn-street-art-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-1-4-768x554.jpg 768w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-brooklyn-street-art-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-1-4.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><p><ins datetime=\"2016-03-24T12:49:57+00:00\"><em>One of the many cats living on the streets in Marrakech, photo \u00a9 Jaime Rojo<\/em><\/ins><\/p>\n<p>This year the Medina also includes Street Art \u2013 or at least murals by graffiti and Street Artists.<\/p>\n<p>As a parallel project to the 6<sup>th<\/sup> <em>Marrakech Biennale<\/em>, an 11-artist program called <em>MB6 Street Art<\/em> is bringing a series of murals scattered through the fortified 954-year old city upon second floor rooftops, larger multi-story walls abutting busy parking lots, and a couple of elongated one story pieces in the narrow souk alleys that make this city magic and easy to get lost in.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"815\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/21-brooklyn-street-art-yesbeee-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-4-960x815.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/21-brooklyn-street-art-yesbeee-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-4-960x815.jpg 960w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/21-brooklyn-street-art-yesbeee-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-4-640x543.jpg 640w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/21-brooklyn-street-art-yesbeee-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-4-768x652.jpg 768w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/21-brooklyn-street-art-yesbeee-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-4.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><p><em><ins datetime=\"2016-03-24T12:49:57+00:00\">A new LX.ONE mural above a market selling carpets. MB6 Street Art. Marrakech Biennale 6, photo \u00a9 Jaime Rojo<\/ins><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The primarily European roster of street artists may deviate somewhat from the decolonizing goals of Biennale curator Reem Fadda, who says that she selected her nearly 50 artists primarily from Africa, Asia and the Diaspora, to \u201cgive what is regarded as the Global South a voice of its own, and in many ways, to own that voice.\u201d The <em>Associate Curator<\/em>, <em>Middle Eastern Art<\/em> for the <em>Abu Dhabi<\/em> Project of the Solomon R. <em>Guggenheim<\/em> who is currently based at the <em>Guggenheim<\/em> in New York, Ms. Fadda presented the scope of this years program alongside Executive President Mohamed Amine Kabbaj during the opening press conference at the lushly appointed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/locations\/689120548\/\">Hotel Mamounia<\/a>, which was translated live for visitors through interpreters in French and English.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ART IN THE OPEN<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"701\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-brooklyn-street-art-alexey-lucas-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-4-960x701.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-brooklyn-street-art-alexey-lucas-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-4-960x701.jpg 960w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-brooklyn-street-art-alexey-lucas-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-4-640x467.jpg 640w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-brooklyn-street-art-alexey-lucas-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-4-768x561.jpg 768w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-brooklyn-street-art-alexey-lucas-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-4.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><p><ins datetime=\"2016-03-24T12:49:57+00:00\"><em>Alexey Lucas. MB6 Street Art. Marrakech Biennale 6, photo \u00a9 Jaime Rojo<\/em><\/ins><\/p>\n<p>Unlike most of the Biennale pieces, which necessarily are displayed indoors under watchful eyes, all the new murals in this first-ever Street Art contingent are free to see and open to all members of the public on the street day and night. While this is typical for Street Art followers it is also in alignment with the root of Fadda\u2019s concept of a \u2018Living City\u2019 and \u201cthat which has an active sense of participation, where art is socially and politically engaged, allowing for that dialogue with the place and with people and society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All during the initial week of the 11 week program we witnessed a level of engagement from passersby that rivaled the works in the grand historic sites mapped out by the Biennale, perhaps because the artists were alive and creating new works before your eyes in many cases. Many artists here have backgrounds in illegal graffiti and Street Art, at least when they were younger, and have adopted a hidden persona or nom de plume traditionally, one that prefers to go unnoticed. Here in Marrakech these artists found an inquisitive and appreciative audience, altering their experience a great deal, if not entirely.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ADAPTING WORKS WITHIN A CULTURE<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/19-brooklyn-street-art-remi-rough-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-4-960x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3621\" srcset=\"https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/19-brooklyn-street-art-remi-rough-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-4-960x640.jpg 960w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/19-brooklyn-street-art-remi-rough-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-4-640x427.jpg 640w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/19-brooklyn-street-art-remi-rough-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-4-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/19-brooklyn-street-art-remi-rough-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-4.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><p><ins datetime=\"2016-03-24T11:46:42+00:00\"><em>Remi Rough. MB6 Street Art. Marrakech Biennale 6,&nbsp;<\/em><\/ins><ins datetime=\"2016-03-24T11:46:42+00:00\"><em>photo \u00a9 Jaime Rojo<\/em><\/ins><\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously there are thousands of people marching past you and speeding by on motorbikes \u2013 but it is nice,\u201d says London\u2019s Remi Rough, whose origins are in graffiti and style-writing but in recent years has become known more as a \u201cgraffuturist\u201d who blends abstraction and clean geometry on city walls. The large-scale piece he did on a scissor lift in Marrakech plays alongside an equally grand geometrically inspired piece by a frequent collaborator, the Strasbourg-born LX One. Describing the street scene, Rough echoes the sentiment of many visiting artists. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of \u2018organized chaotic\u2019 here.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/11-brooklyn-street-art-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-3-4-960x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3626\" srcset=\"https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/11-brooklyn-street-art-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-3-4-960x640.jpg 960w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/11-brooklyn-street-art-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-3-4-640x427.jpg 640w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/11-brooklyn-street-art-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-3-4-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/11-brooklyn-street-art-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-3-4.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><p><ins datetime=\"2016-03-24T12:49:57+00:00\"><em>Colorful goods for sale in the Medina market, photo \u00a9 Jaime Rojo<\/em><\/ins><\/p>\n<p>Because of the cultural considerations regarding content here \u2013 namely a sensitivity to bodies and politics \u2013 many of these artists found themselves concerning their choices of style and topic with greater care than usual. But taking into consideration the guidelines of his hosts doesn\u2019t rankle Rough, not least because his geometric forms won\u2019t easily run afoul of these suggestions. Nonetheless, \u201cI always do a bit of research on the place, on the people. I don\u2019t want to be the artist who just turns up and goes, \u2018Yeah I\u2019m going to paint this wall\u2019 and who doesn\u2019t ask about who owns it, who lives there, what the area is like, what\u2019s happening. I think as artists it\u2019s our responsibility to ask those questions and I don\u2019t think enough do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>SYMBOLIC STORK SEES EXHIBIT INSIDE AND OUT<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"933\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/13-brooklyn-street-art-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-6-4-960x933.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/13-brooklyn-street-art-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-6-4-960x933.jpg 960w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/13-brooklyn-street-art-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-6-4-640x622.jpg 640w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/13-brooklyn-street-art-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-6-4-768x746.jpg 768w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/13-brooklyn-street-art-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-6-4.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><p><ins datetime=\"2016-03-24T12:49:57+00:00\"><em>A stork in its nest on the wall of the Palais El Badii, photo \u00a9 Jaime Rojo<\/em><\/ins><\/p>\n<p>A sage and stately Moroccan stork sitting in her nest atop the perforated wall of Palais El Badii has an inside\/outside vantage point of this Biennale. She looks at El Anatsui\u2019s enormous new <em>Kindred Viewpoints<\/em>, a sculptural fabric of aluminum bottle caps and copper wire draped across a scaffolding among the sunken gardens of the ruins and at the end of 90 meter long pool.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/4-brooklyn-street-art-el-anatsui-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-1-4-960x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3622\" srcset=\"https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/4-brooklyn-street-art-el-anatsui-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-1-4-960x640.jpg 960w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/4-brooklyn-street-art-el-anatsui-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-1-4-640x427.jpg 640w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/4-brooklyn-street-art-el-anatsui-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-1-4-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/4-brooklyn-street-art-el-anatsui-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-1-4.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><ins datetime=\"2016-03-24T12:49:57+00:00\"><em>El Anatsui\u2019s Kindred Viewpoints at the Marrakech Biennale 6, photo \u00a9 Jaime Rojo<\/em><\/ins><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/5-brooklyn-street-art-el-anatsui-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-2-4-960x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3618\" srcset=\"https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/5-brooklyn-street-art-el-anatsui-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-2-4-960x640.jpg 960w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/5-brooklyn-street-art-el-anatsui-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-2-4-640x427.jpg 640w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/5-brooklyn-street-art-el-anatsui-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-2-4-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/5-brooklyn-street-art-el-anatsui-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-2-4.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><p><ins datetime=\"2016-03-24T12:49:57+00:00\"><em>Detail of El Anatsui\u2019s Kindred Viewpoints at the Marrakech Biennale 6, photo \u00a9 Jaime Rojo<\/em><\/ins><\/p>\n<p>Turning her long bill to look outside the fortified walls she can gaze upon a newly aerosoled rose motif carefully spaced across a red street wall by the London based Dotmasters,&nbsp;\u201cI have had to find something non figurative to fit with the local culture,\u201d says Dotmasters on his personal blog for his fans to see into his process, perhaps preparing for derisive remarks about his decorative design. Known more for stenciled irony and a wizened street sarcasm back home, the mid-career formally trained painter departs to the organic forms and hand-on-can approach here.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"748\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-brooklyn-street-art-dotmasters-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-1-4-960x748.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3624\" srcset=\"https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-brooklyn-street-art-dotmasters-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-1-4-960x748.jpg 960w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-brooklyn-street-art-dotmasters-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-1-4-640x499.jpg 640w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-brooklyn-street-art-dotmasters-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-1-4-768x598.jpg 768w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-brooklyn-street-art-dotmasters-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-1-4.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><p><ins datetime=\"2016-03-24T12:49:57+00:00\"><em>Dotmasters. MB6 Street Art. Marrakech Biennale 6., photo \u00a9 Jaime Rojo<\/em><\/ins><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis to-date is my fourth free-hand mural in my life,\u201d he says from atop a scaffolding of his choice of roses. \u201cMarrakech is the rose city and the Moroccan rose has the height among rose oil in the world because it\u2019s a desert rose and it grows really slowly, so it really packs a punch in the fragrance quotient. Morocco is quite famed for their roses just for the perfume and oil industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>PARADOX IN THE APPROACH<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"731\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/3-brooklyn-street-art-dotmasters-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-2-4-960x731.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/3-brooklyn-street-art-dotmasters-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-2-4-960x731.jpg 960w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/3-brooklyn-street-art-dotmasters-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-2-4-640x487.jpg 640w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/3-brooklyn-street-art-dotmasters-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-2-4-768x584.jpg 768w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/3-brooklyn-street-art-dotmasters-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-2-4.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><p><ins datetime=\"2016-03-24T12:49:57+00:00\"><em>Dotmasters. MB6 Street Art. Marrakech Biennale 6, photo \u00a9 Jaime Rojo<\/em><\/ins><\/p>\n<p>Without painting the situation with too broad a brush, one may be perplexed about the dichotomy of graffiti-spraying vandals having some appreciation for the norms of a host society while cherishing the practice of violating them where they grew up. Perhaps it is simply a matter of international diplomacy by a visitor, but still sort of a curious point that some may ponder.<\/p>\n<p>This crossroads is not only North meeting South it is also illegal graffiti writers and street artists grappling with the growing popularity of legal murals at commercial, institutional, and community art festivals around the world. We continue to observe rebels being perfect schoolboys\/girls in their host town and we wonder about the construction of persona, practice, and environment. Sickboy sat down to talk about his wall and said he had been avoiding some of his typical symbols like caskets and marijuana joints \u2013 and he revealed that he actually altered his painting because he was responding to the community.<\/p>\n<p>Someone had crossed out the abbreviation letters of his crew back home \u201cKKS\u201d (Kold Krush Sisters). Not knowing French or Arabic, he tells us that he couldn\u2019t figure out what the problem was, so he just painted a motif over it himself rather than risk offending further. A local elder with a gray beard asked us one day to explain a series of symbols on Sickboy\u2019s mural \u2013 pointing to an eye and a heart which were meant to say something like \u201cI love peace lovers\u201d. He wanted to be assured that it was not about things about mysticism or of a sexual nature.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20-brooklyn-street-art-sickboy-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-4-960x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20-brooklyn-street-art-sickboy-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-4-960x640.jpg 960w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20-brooklyn-street-art-sickboy-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-4-640x427.jpg 640w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20-brooklyn-street-art-sickboy-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-4-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20-brooklyn-street-art-sickboy-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-4.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><p><ins datetime=\"2016-03-24T12:49:57+00:00\"><em>Sickboy. MB6 Street Art. Marrakech Biennale 6, photo \u00a9 Jaime Rojo<\/em><\/ins><\/p>\n<p>We asked Sickboy if he ever feels like this or other mural projects present a conflict for the original attitude of rebelliousness that he began with in the graffiti scene? To us it seemed an irony that he was talking about working with the shop owners nearby, including commissioning a pair of custom shoes from the cobbler and creating a new business sign for him. The anarchy-loving Sickboy also re-painted the tiny store of the tobacco seller whose cart was attached to the wall the artist was painting. \u201cI painted all the details, I painted the star of Morocco on it. I didn\u2019t do any symbols that he didn\u2019t like,\u201d he explains.<\/p>\n<p>And then to our question he responds, \u201cYeah I think I\u2019m one of the few artists here who has done more painting of the illegal side \u2013 the shutters, the fast letters \u2013 and I still use that as something of an extracurricular side of my studio practice \u2013 to be gangster but because it feels very free. But I think that as you get older your reasons for doing things changes. I like it because I feel dynamic when I do illegal graffiti and I feel like I\u2019m getting one over \u2013 not Ninja, but I\u2019m being super stealth. I think when you do this kind of project it just morphs slightly. I feel like this is in between what you do in the graffiti scene (and the reasons you do it) \u2013 and the art studio practice. There are different levels of compromise. Here you are just trying to respect the heritage of the building, the area, the people, the symbols.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>MIGRATION AND ARTS EDUCATION<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"717\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/6-brooklyn-street-art-giacomo-bufarini-run-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-1-4-960x717.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3619\" srcset=\"https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/6-brooklyn-street-art-giacomo-bufarini-run-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-1-4-960x717.jpg 960w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/6-brooklyn-street-art-giacomo-bufarini-run-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-1-4-640x478.jpg 640w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/6-brooklyn-street-art-giacomo-bufarini-run-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-1-4-768x574.jpg 768w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/6-brooklyn-street-art-giacomo-bufarini-run-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-1-4.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><p><ins datetime=\"2016-03-24T12:49:57+00:00\"><em>Giacomo \u201cRUN\u201d Bufarini. MB6 Street Art. Marrakech Biennale 6, photo \u00a9 Jaime Rojo<\/em><\/ins><\/p>\n<p>Italy\u2019s Giacomo Bufarini, or RUN, began as an illegal graffiti writer back home in Ancona running with crews in the mid-1990s long before he transitioned to a more character-based folk symbolism that has taken him to cities and festivals around the world as a brush and roller painter. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/run-on-the-shores-of-moro_b_9391498\">After completing a massive 6,400 square meter mural in a public square<\/a> during the previous week at seaside Essaouira that addresses the immigration\/migration crises currently engulfing the Global North and South RUN created a series of seven flat fantastic characters and symbols on a long one-story wall outside of Palais Bahia, another location for the main biennale. He shows us his original hand sketches in his book that sits among the ladders and bucket paints, and tells us that he was very inspired by characters in the animated film \u201cKirikou\u201d for these abstracted figures.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"739\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/8-brooklyn-street-art-giacomo-bufarini-run-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-4-4-960x739.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/8-brooklyn-street-art-giacomo-bufarini-run-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-4-4-960x739.jpg 960w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/8-brooklyn-street-art-giacomo-bufarini-run-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-4-4-640x493.jpg 640w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/8-brooklyn-street-art-giacomo-bufarini-run-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-4-4-768x591.jpg 768w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/8-brooklyn-street-art-giacomo-bufarini-run-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-4-4.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><p><ins datetime=\"2016-03-24T12:49:57+00:00\"><em>Giacomo \u201cRUN\u201d Bufarini. MB6 Street Art. Marrakech Biennale 6, photo \u00a9 Jaime Rojo<\/em><\/ins><\/p>\n<p>Further up the block there is a small craft art store that sells handmade lamps made from sardine cans by the shop owner, who introduces himself as Ahmed. We speak with him about the recycling work of El Anatsui and many African artists from a traditional perspective. We also ask him about the new paintings that RUN has just created while standing atop Ahmed\u2019s roof across from a multi-domed Hamman; the images of a man sitting upon a camel and a depiction of the iconic storks from the region.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"714\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/9-brooklyn-street-art-giacomo-bufarini-run-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-5-4-960x714.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3634\" srcset=\"https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/9-brooklyn-street-art-giacomo-bufarini-run-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-5-4-960x714.jpg 960w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/9-brooklyn-street-art-giacomo-bufarini-run-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-5-4-640x476.jpg 640w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/9-brooklyn-street-art-giacomo-bufarini-run-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-5-4-768x571.jpg 768w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/9-brooklyn-street-art-giacomo-bufarini-run-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-5-4.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><p><ins datetime=\"2016-03-24T12:49:57+00:00\"><em>Giacomo \u201cRUN\u201d Bufarini. MB6 Street Art. Marrakech Biennale 6, photo \u00a9 Jaime Rojo<\/em><\/ins><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat he did was beautiful \u2013 the symbol of the storks. This kind of stork is a symbol of the Medina, here on the wall, near the palace, a symbol of Marrakech. It is nice, and also the camel \u2013 it refers to our history,\u201d say Ahmed. Talk turns to his view of an immediate needs for arts and education here in Marrakech, and Ahmed says he is cheered to see many come for the Biennale and hopes the focus on fine art translates into art programs for the kids and teenagers who live in the neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey don\u2019t make art schools here. Also we don\u2019t have any galleries to go to to learn about art, music, or crafts,\u201d he says. \u201cThere is nothing here. We have a lot of people who love art, who have a hobby of making art, but they are lost. With art, everyone has it in the blood \u2013 it has no nationality, no borders.\u201d In truth, Marrakech is reported to have twenty five or more galleries and in recent years there has been some development of arts programs for youth but obviously the perception in this part of the old city indicates a desire for more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A DEAD EAGLE AND INTERPRETATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A ten minute walk north of Djemaa El-Fna and above an open air souk clearing are four new murals by MB6 artists; Birmingham UK\u2019s Lucy McLauchlan, local Moroccan artist Kalamour, Moscow\u2019s Alexey Lucas, and France\u2019s Yesbeee.<\/p>\n<p>All four murals are visible from the market below and three of the artists work in the realms of abstract. Ironically it was the local artist named Kalamour who had some negative feedback from a local man who was watching the progression of the piece and who interpreted the two surrealistic male figures as being intertwined intimately. Fortunately the artist was on hand to explain to the neighbor that the metaphorical figures were actually more likely the same man split into two, showing a progression of time.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/14-brooklyn-street-art-kalamour-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-4-960x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3633\" srcset=\"https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/14-brooklyn-street-art-kalamour-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-4-960x640.jpg 960w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/14-brooklyn-street-art-kalamour-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-4-640x427.jpg 640w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/14-brooklyn-street-art-kalamour-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-4-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/14-brooklyn-street-art-kalamour-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-4.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><p><ins datetime=\"2016-03-24T12:49:57+00:00\"><em>Kalamour. MB6 Street Art. Marrakech Biennale 6, photo \u00a9 Jaime Rojo<\/em><\/ins><\/p>\n<p>McLauchlan\u2019s piece is directly across a roof from Kalamour\u2019s and she said their primary adjustment regarding surroundings was not the cacophony of commerce in the market below but was more related to the witch doctor who lived directly underfoot and who stored the remains of an eagle on the roof as preparation for using the animals\u2019 body parts in his practice. We ask her if dead eagles are typically at the foot of her ladder when she is painting.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/15-brooklyn-street-art-lucy-mclauchlan-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-4-960x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3617\" srcset=\"https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/15-brooklyn-street-art-lucy-mclauchlan-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-4-960x640.jpg 960w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/15-brooklyn-street-art-lucy-mclauchlan-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-4-640x427.jpg 640w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/15-brooklyn-street-art-lucy-mclauchlan-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-4-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/15-brooklyn-street-art-lucy-mclauchlan-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-4.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><p><ins datetime=\"2016-03-24T12:49:57+00:00\"><em>Lucy McLauchlan. MB6 Street Art. Marrakech Biennale 6, photo \u00a9 Jaime Rojo<\/em><\/ins><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d have to say that this is a first,\u201d says the artist, who has done plenty of painting in sketchy parts of town in the UK and elsewhere. \u201cExcrement, the stench of urine, used needles and condoms, dead rats\u2026that\u2019s what I normally expect to contend with,\u201d she laughs. \u201cBut a witch doctor\u2019s store cupboard; owls, chameleons, the eagle, potion bottles filled with all sorts of things strewn around, no \u2013 that wasn\u2019t what I was expecting from the rooftops of Marrakech. Then again, I doubt the witch doctor was ever expecting me to turn up and clamber all over his rooftop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>CURATORS AND THE DEDICATION OF THE BIENNALE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Vestalia Chilton, curator of the MB6 Street Art project, and director Terence Rodrigues clearly made history with this inaugural program thanks to their combined knowledge of art dealing and the current urban art scene. Rodrigues has been a dealer, lecturer, and Christie\u2019s auctioneer and has been involved with the Biennale since it was first founded by Vanessa Branson in the mid 2000s and was named <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arts_in_Marrakech_%28AiM%29_International_Biennale\"><em>Arts in Marrakech<\/em> (AiM)<\/a>.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"749\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/7-brooklyn-street-art-giacomo-bufarini-run-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-2-4-960x749.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/7-brooklyn-street-art-giacomo-bufarini-run-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-2-4-960x749.jpg 960w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/7-brooklyn-street-art-giacomo-bufarini-run-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-2-4-640x499.jpg 640w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/7-brooklyn-street-art-giacomo-bufarini-run-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-2-4-768x599.jpg 768w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/7-brooklyn-street-art-giacomo-bufarini-run-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-2-4.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><p><ins datetime=\"2016-03-24T12:49:57+00:00\"><em>Giacomo \u201cRUN\u201d Bufarini. MB6 Street Art. Marrakech Biennale 6, photo \u00a9 Jaime Rojo<\/em><\/ins><\/p>\n<p>Chilton tells us that she selected the artists partly from her experience with graffiti and street culture as owner of Attollo gallery in London, where she also curates the Croydon Mural Project and does a variety of art consulting activities. Formerly at Sotheby\u2019s as an assistant she tells us that she appreciates the public nature of street art which allows for a dialogue with audiences of all backgrounds. She says that the MB6 project has been a great opportunity for her to work with the local population as well as this international collection of artists to create work that she hopes is rewarding for both.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/23-brooklyn-street-art-Zbel-manifesto-Leila-Alaoui-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-2-4-960x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3631\" srcset=\"https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/23-brooklyn-street-art-Zbel-manifesto-Leila-Alaoui-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-2-4-960x640.jpg 960w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/23-brooklyn-street-art-Zbel-manifesto-Leila-Alaoui-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-2-4-640x427.jpg 640w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/23-brooklyn-street-art-Zbel-manifesto-Leila-Alaoui-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-2-4-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/23-brooklyn-street-art-Zbel-manifesto-Leila-Alaoui-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-2-4.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><p><ins datetime=\"2016-03-24T12:49:57+00:00\"><em>A tribute to Leila Alaoui using her photography in the new city. Marrakech Biennale 6, photo \u00a9 Jaime Rojo<\/em><\/ins><\/p>\n<p>Biennale Executive President Mr. Kabbaj also somberly noted during a public talk that this years\u2019 biennale is dedicated to the 33 year old French-Moroccan artist and documentary photographer Leila Alaoui, who died in a terror attack on a restaurant this January 18th in Burkina Faso. A participant of the 2012 and 2014 Biennales, a full tribute displaying Alaoui\u2019s large format photography is exhibited on the street in the Gueliz, or new city.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"685\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/22-brooklyn-street-art-Zbel-manifesto-Leila-Alaoui-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-1-4-960x685.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/22-brooklyn-street-art-Zbel-manifesto-Leila-Alaoui-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-1-4-960x685.jpg 960w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/22-brooklyn-street-art-Zbel-manifesto-Leila-Alaoui-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-1-4-640x457.jpg 640w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/22-brooklyn-street-art-Zbel-manifesto-Leila-Alaoui-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-1-4-768x548.jpg 768w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/22-brooklyn-street-art-Zbel-manifesto-Leila-Alaoui-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-1-4.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>A tribute to Leila Alaoui, for whom the Marrakech Biennale 6 is dedicated, photo \u00a9 Jaime Rojo<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By honoring Alaoui\u00b4s passing, the chosen out door sculptural installation feels alive and part of the streets because the photographs of her subjects are displayed in large format on a cube. Uprooted workers from an industrial car production center on Seguin Island on the outskirts of Paris, \u201cI ile au Diable\u201d puts these workers on another island here in a busy pedestrian and vehicular intersection where people are continually passing it. Touching on the themes of migration, dislocation and identify, the subjects again are in perhaps an unfamiliar street scene.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cNOT NEW NOW\u201d BLENDS INSIDE\/OUT IN BIENNALE 6<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"881\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/17-brooklyn-street-art-lx-one-remi-rough-yesbeee-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-4-960x881.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3629\" srcset=\"https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/17-brooklyn-street-art-lx-one-remi-rough-yesbeee-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-4-960x881.jpg 960w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/17-brooklyn-street-art-lx-one-remi-rough-yesbeee-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-4-640x588.jpg 640w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/17-brooklyn-street-art-lx-one-remi-rough-yesbeee-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-4-768x705.jpg 768w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/17-brooklyn-street-art-lx-one-remi-rough-yesbeee-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-4.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><p><ins datetime=\"2016-03-24T12:49:57+00:00\"><em>Remi Rough, LX.One, and Yesbeee. MB6 Street Art. Marrakech Biennale 6, photo \u00a9 Jaime Rojo<\/em><\/ins><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot New Now\u201d is the theme that the Palestinian-born Ms. Fadda has chosen to represent the curatorial vision and expressions by the artists this year. Analyzing and appreciating the similarities of works inside and outside in this historic city you may interpret the theme as a recognition that humans and our needs for artistic expression have always mined the same desires, regardless of the shiny trappings of the modern age, various cultural hegemonies and our current rather triumphalist technological and commercial wave that seems poised to take over every aspect of life.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"779\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/16-brooklyn-street-art-lx-one-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-4-960x779.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/16-brooklyn-street-art-lx-one-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-4-960x779.jpg 960w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/16-brooklyn-street-art-lx-one-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-4-640x519.jpg 640w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/16-brooklyn-street-art-lx-one-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-4-768x623.jpg 768w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/16-brooklyn-street-art-lx-one-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-4.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><p><ins datetime=\"2016-03-24T12:49:57+00:00\"><em>LX.ONE. MB6 Street Art. Marrakech Biennale 6, photo \u00a9 Jaime Rojo<\/em><\/ins><\/p>\n<p>The Millennial generations\u2019 romance with the D.I.Y. (Do It Yourself) approach to art making was simply called \u201chaving a craft\u201d for most of history. The recycling of found materials is as old as civilization, and even a resistance to rigid formalism in collaged works of discarded wood by Alexey Lucas in the MB6 gallery show also has certain parallels with artists of the Biennale like the American Al Loving \u2013 whose hundreds of pieces of torn fabric are reformed and overlapped, some extending to the floor in his own room at the Palais Bahia.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear how deliberate the coinciding results of the Biennale themes and the public mural practice of MB6 Street Art are but they are undeniable. It may have been more coincidence than plan as Ms. Fadda told us that the acceptance of the mural arts project as a parallel one was as a result of an \u201copen call\u201d rather than an intentionally calculated program of inclusion. Regardless this is not the first overlapping we have witnessed of the formal intentions of institutions and the expressions of so-called Urban Art. As the established art world continues to assess the meaning and merit of art-in-the-streets as part of a contemporary art conversation, we see intellectual rigor on both sides of the wall and this year in Marrakech, many things are running parallel.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"919\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/18-brooklyn-street-art-madc-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-2-4-960x919.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3627\" srcset=\"https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/18-brooklyn-street-art-madc-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-2-4-960x919.jpg 960w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/18-brooklyn-street-art-madc-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-2-4-640x612.jpg 640w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/18-brooklyn-street-art-madc-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-2-4-768x735.jpg 768w, https:\/\/urban-nation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/18-brooklyn-street-art-madc-jaime-rojo-mb6streetart-marrakech-biennale-un-berlin-03-16-web-2-4.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><p><ins datetime=\"2016-03-24T12:49:57+00:00\"><em>Mad C. 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Marrakech Biennale 6, photo \u00a9 Jaime Rojo<\/em><\/ins><\/p>\n<p><strong>Participating artists in MB6 Street Art include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mad C (Germany), Dotmaster (UK), Giacomo RUN Bufarini (Italy), Dag Insky (France), Kalamour (Morocco), Alexey Lucas (Russia), LX.ONE (France), Lucy McLauchlan (UK), Remi Rough (UK), Sickboy (UK) and Yesbeee (UK)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This article is the result of a partnership with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brooklynstreetart.com\/\">BSA<\/a><\/strong> and <strong>Urban Nation<\/strong> (UN).<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marrakech\u2019s old city greets you with winding narrow streets, speeding Vespas and razor thin margins for passing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":3639,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,108],"tags":[128,129],"un-event-series":[],"class_list":["post-7438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-de","category-brooklyn-street-art-de","tag-brooklyn-street-art-team-de","tag-bsa-de"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Street Artists at the Marrakech Biennale: Urban, Contemporary &amp; 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