Orientalist or modern painters, designers, architects, fashion designers: many are the artists who, since the nineteenth century, have found in the patterns of Moroccan textiles a strong element to found modernity in their work. This round table offers an overview of this artistic craze for Morocco, with a focus on the emblematic work of Henri Matisse.
With:

Patrice Deparpe (subject), director of the Matisse-Le Cateau Cambrésis museum > Rémi Labrusse, co-curator of the Tarz exhibition. Embroider in Morocco, yesterday and today, researcher at the EHESS and professor of contemporary art history.
Moderation: Mario Choueiry, art historian, in charge of missions at the IMA
In partnership with the Musée Matisse-Le Cateau Cambrésis and the Maison Européenne des Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société (MESHS), on the occasion of the 14th Spring of Humanities and Social Sciences.