The Yves Saint-Laurent Museum (YSL) hosts, until May 30, an exhibition that offers a portrait of the life’s work of Bert Flint, a passionate observer and self-taught cultural anthropologist with a deep affinity for Moroccan and sub-Saharan cultures.
This exhibition brings together works from his personal collection that bear witness to his vision of the diversity and richness of Berber traditions that have flourished from the Atlas to the Anti-Atlas and from the Sahara to the Sahel, the Fondation Jardin Majorelle says in a statement.
It also reflects a long history of friendship, admiration and collaboration between the Fondation Jardin Majorelle and Bert Flint.
Through more than 60 years of dedicated observation of rural peoples and the objects they create, Flint has been able to access underlying paradigms of motifs, materials and techniques shared across tribes and geography.
Born in 1931 in the Netherlands, Bert Flint graduated from the University of Utrecht. Since 1957, he has been living in Marrakech where he came to teach Spanish. Passionate about Moroccan popular arts, Flint has been researching different aspects of Amazigh culture and collecting objects for more than sixty years.
In 1996, Flint founded the Tiskiwin Museum in Marrakech, a small museum bearing his personal stamp, to share with the public his collection of jewels, textiles, pottery, ceramics and more, and to reveal the deep, and often forgotten, ties that unite Moroccan traditions to those of the Saharan world and to the broader African continent.
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