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- Portfolio 2012 -TRANSCRIPT
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w w w . a n u a r k h a l i f i . c o m
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Boogie man - 2012 TangerMixed media on canvas
139 x 100 cm
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I’m still here - 2012 TangerMixed media on canvas
168 x 135 cm
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Mixed media on canvas
155 x 150 cm
Cosmic slop - 2012 Tanger
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Mixed media on canvas
100 x 68 cm
Forever and ever - 2012 Tanger
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Mixed media on canvas
160 x 100 cm
Life is sweet... Sometimes - 2012 Tanger
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Mad color watchersMixed media on canvas
100 x 70 cm
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Los shadows - 2012 TangerMixed media on canvas
65 x 150 cm
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Mixed media on wood
135 x 100 cm
Maroc disco inferno - 2012 Tanger
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160 x 70 cm · 2 sides
Mixed media on found kasbah wood door
Auto porte - 2012 Tanger
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150 x 120 cm
Mixed media on canvas
Pride
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Mixed media on canvas
105 x 100 cm
Party going on - 2012 Tanger
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Mixed media on canvas
105 x 100 cm
Bunny - 2012 Tanger
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Inner playgroundMixed media on canvas
42 x 40 cm
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Mixed media on canvas
42 x 40 cm · each one triptyque
Perro - 2012 Tanger
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171 x 110 cm
Mixed media on paper and cardboard
Role Model - installation -
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50 x 65 cm
Mixed media on paper
Playground 1
50 x 65 cm
Mixed media on paper
Playground 2
50 x 65 cm
Mixed media on paper
Playground 3
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Bird say’s this a spring revolution masterpieceMixed media on paper
50 x 65 cm
Bird says K.O.Mixed media on paper
50 x 65 cm
La revolution ces’t moiMixed media on paper
50 x 65 cm
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Mask 3Mixed media on paper
50 x 65 cm
Mask 2Mixed media on paper
50 x 65 cm
Mask 1Mixed media on paper
50 x 65 cm
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Portraits 3Mixed media on paper
50 x 65 cm
Portraits 2Mixed media on paper
50 x 65 cm
Portraits 1Mixed media on paper
50 x 65 cm
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Portraits 4 Portraits 5 Portraits 6Mixed media on paper Mixed media on paper Mixed media on paper
50 x 65 cm 50 x 65 cm 50 x 65 cm
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13 x 10 cm
Mixed media on paper
Flammable - 101 drawing installation -
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13 x 10 cm
Mixed media on paper
Flammable - 101 drawing installation -
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13 x 10 cm
Mixed media on paper
Flammable - F -
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Flammable - L -Mixed media on paper
13 x 10 cm
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Flammable - A -Mixed media on paper
13 x 10 cm
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Mixed media on paper
13 x 10 cm
Flammable - M-
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Mixed media on paper
13 x 10 cm
Flammable - M -
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13 x 10 cm
Mixed media on paper
Flammable - A -
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Flammable - B -Mixed media on paper
13 x 10 cm
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Flammable - L -Mixed media on paper
13 x 10 cm
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Flammable - E -Mixed media on paper and three photographs
13 x 10 cm
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All night wrongMarker on magazine
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Nicotine, birdburguer and flashbacksMarker on magazine
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Sky is the limitMarker and collage on magazine
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Never trust a wild thingMarker on magazine
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V.H.S.Marker and collage on magazine
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We are animalsMarker and collage on magazine
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Holywood - Bill fucking Murray -Marker on magazine on madrasa school wood tablet
56 x 40 cm
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Aloha from TangerJust scratched the aloha word on found photography
45 x 70 cm
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Anuar Khalifi born in 1977 in Lloret de Mar, Spain. Works and lives in Tangier, Morroco.
The simple act of putting lines, colours and all sorts of materials on a vertical surface such as a still canvas, can
be perceived with an emotional palette that moves from hate and stiffness towards mistery and acceptation. Of
course this is part of the viewer’s business and it relates to the attitude and experiences he has made himself of
creative languages and art in general. Despite the emotions a painting can generate, there’s a common belief
about what a painting cannot be: a gesture of social, historical and political engagement. Apart from the 800’s
Realism and then taking in account Picasso’s Guernica and the hyperrealism of some american recent artistic
ventures, most of the rest is escape, psychological insigh and pure abstraction which has birth in the painter’s
studio and there it walks back. Luckily it happens that street art in the 70’s wasn’t born in artist’s studios; it’s
something natural to street art being a mirror of social environment and everyday life in urban streets. There
can be some romanticism but it’s still about the reality of cities, of social classes and relationships, of people mo-
vements, fear and anxiety. It’s exactly between these two faces where the work of Anuar Khalifi is placing itself.
Paintings having a fight with Pop expressionism while they address some social and public issues, maybe not that
familiar to those that are not in the north-south ongoing struggle. Human body is the arena where this challenge
is taking place and Khalifi doesn’t choose a contender winning and another losing the fight. His young boys, who
are given more nordic than arab features, aren’t there to dream and claim in silence their desperation. On the
contrary they live few seconds before they start something, we can always expect some sort of action is about
to arrive even if isn’t yet depicted... Guess what? it’s about us, the viewers, to complete the story.
Marcello Bellan
Expos 2012
“Fast Food” - Les Insolites, Tanger - 26 jan 2011
“Boys don’t cry” - Artingis, Tanger - 23 sep 2011
“Blast” - Mastermind (GVCC), Casablanca - 3 feb 2012
“Now” - Biennal, Marrakech - 2 mar 2012
“Tourist go home” - Galerie Kandisha, Paris - 8 nov 2012
Anuar Khalifi+ 34 699 589 317 (Spain)
+ 212 (0) 650 165 121 (Moroco)
www.anuarkhalifi.com