From November 19, 2020 to May 9, 2021, the extensive solo exhibition "Beeldenstorm" by Nour-Eddine Jarram can be seen in Rijksmuseum Twenthe. Vrijhof Culture shows what artworks from his hand the University of Twente has in its art collection.
Nour-Eddine Jarram (1956) came to Enschede from Morocco in the late 1970s to study at the renowned art academy AKI. He never left Enschede again and continues to work on a rich body of work that can count on (inter) national recognition.
Jarram got known in the 90’s through his paintings in which he mixed elements from the paintings of Dutch old masters with motives from Islamic culture. He replaced the heads of the physicians from Rembrandt’s Anatomy Lesson with tulips, for example. After this he developed his own landscapes in which human figures are hidden. They look like images from a dream or hallucination, in the fold of a mountain a face lights up, a hill forms the shoulder of a man. Durin the process of drawing one shape evokes another, naturally integrating the emerging figures into the landscape that is presented in the image. Due to the warm earth colours, deep blues and elegant, sometimes calligraphic lines, the pastel drawings have an unmistakably non-Western character.
