MEDI1TV Afrique : #Chronique_culture du 16-11-2023 - 16/11/2023
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00:12 Welcome to Medea TV and art.
00:15 To begin with, the National Museum Foundation has just inaugurated the permanent collection of the Dharniyabha Museum in Tangier,
00:23 which is now the Dharniyabha Museum of Traveling Artists.
00:28 The museum, which is endowed and enriched by a generous donation from Didier Saintis de Montoucy,
00:34 has about 350 works and objects collected for more than three decades with passion and offered with love to Morocco.
00:43 This gesture is a testimony to the will of this collector and patron to share this collection with all visitors.
00:52 Morocco has constantly aroused the fascination of travellers who have been able to capture its light, its colours, its rich heritage and the hospitality of Moroccans.
01:03 They were its best ambassadors at a time when Tangier was a hub for meetings and exchanges.
01:10 This permanent exhibition, characterised by the creativity of these artists,
01:15 offers visitors a glimpse of their perception of Morocco during this period.
01:22 We are now listening to Didier Saintis de Montoucy, a collector, patron and ablazis.
01:27 He is the Director of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Rabat and the Images of 102, Mohamed Rich.
01:34 It was natural for me. I have been collecting for several years paintings and objects that concerned Morocco in particular,
01:48 North Africa, the Middle East and the Middle East.
01:53 It was obvious. When you collect, you transmit.
01:58 It was obvious that the transmission would be for this country, for Morocco, which I love very much, which I know very well.
02:08 I have very close ties with Morocco. It was obvious to me.
02:13 I think it is a sign of confidence to have a donor who trusts the institution and who gives so much work,
02:21 so much work that allows the museum to change its skin regularly and to fidelize the public.
02:33 So people who visited the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art a year ago,
02:38 they will visit another Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, another space, with a permanent collection this time,
02:44 because it was previously a temporary exhibition and a collection that was supposed to be in the world of the pre-war period.
02:51 This space, which hosted one of the great artists Eugène Delacroix during his stay in Tangier,
02:57 was the seat of the first French consulate in Morocco in 1816
03:02 and also the first seat of the Moroccan Foreign Affairs Administration,
03:07 housing a naïb representing the sheriff's office in 1851.
03:12 It is also a diplomatic building.
03:14 It housed in the 19th century the representative of the French legation, the Musée d'Art Niaba,
03:20 which officially opened its doors in September 2022, and the fourth museum space in the city of Tangier,
03:28 a museum that allows visitors to discover an important part of the diplomatic history of the kingdom
03:35 and the memory of the city of Detroit since the 18th century.
03:40 Documents and objects that testify to historical facts from Tangier,
03:45 from the time of Sultan Moulai Slimane, will be exhibited,
03:50 and will be enriched by this new gift of 350 works and objects.
03:55 I invite you to listen to Ablaziz El Idrissi, the Director of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rabat.
04:02 It is a fairly rich collection,
04:05 because it highlights these travellers who crossed the Detroit to discover Morocco,
04:13 to discover both the Moroccan hospitality,
04:17 and also the antiquity that Delacroix had in his travel diaries at a certain time,
04:27 "living antiquity" in the positive sense of the term.
04:33 I think that such a collection, with two portraits, with the landscape,
04:41 with a diversity in themes, in forms, in techniques,
04:54 and a heteroclite collection with rifles, objects, graphics, painting, etc.,
05:06 allows to give an idea of the space of Tangier,
05:11 a cosmopolitan space, a living space, in the 19th century,
05:15 but at the same time to show what the artists have achieved and done in this period.
05:23 And music now, and this auction that traces the evolution of the singer Prince
05:29 in music and fashion since the time of Pepper Rain until his death in April 2016.
05:35 The collection, which includes more than 200 lots to be sold,
05:38 was gathered by a collector who initially hoped to open a museum celebrating the musician,
05:44 but who then abandoned the project.
05:46 One of the selling points is this white shirt,
05:49 worn by Prince while performing the song "Pepper Rain" at the American Music Awards in 1985.
05:57 An estimated shirt worth $15,000.
06:00 In addition to the clothes, this auction includes the original photographs,
06:05 the original albums, and the official documentation of the artist's films and videos.
06:12 Earlier this year, Prince's state of origin, Minnesota,
06:16 paid tribute to him by giving his name to a section of highway
06:20 that passes in front of his house in Paisley Park,
06:23 the anchor with which the governor signed the law project for the change of name,
06:28 "E.T. Mauve", the signature color of Prince.
06:31 Let's listen to Bobby Livingstone, he is the vice president of the auction house.
06:41 Prince was a rebel, he revolutionized rock with his incredible songs,
06:47 but he also revolutionized rock 'n' roll fashion.
06:51 For this collection, we organize this auction with about 200 articles
06:56 that trace Prince's history.
06:59 Each tour, he reinvented himself. It's a beautiful collection.
07:03 The singer Prince died so suddenly, it was a tragedy.
07:07 You know, people who love this singer are still mourning,
07:11 they are emotionally linked to him.