MEDI1TV Afrique : #Chronique_culture du 18-10-24 - 18/10/2024
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00:00Welcome to Medihan TV and art in this chronicle to take you dear viewers to the Tangeroy workshop of the artist Abdrafi Gdali.
00:18And don't be surprised dear viewers, objects that surround the artist's workbench because for him nothing is lost, everything can be recycled.
00:27The useless can become a work of art. So plastic, cardboard, bottles, pliers, iron, nothing is thrown away at Abdrafi Gdali.
00:39The plastician, researcher and artist-thinker is constantly looking to renew himself, to amaze, create the unusual and why not shock. I suggest you listen to him.
00:51I can't concentrate on what I know. I always try to put back my previous knowledge for the search for other plastic possibilities.
01:03And this is part of my principles. In addition, there is another part that pushes me to do this. I am an eco-plastician.
01:16I am currently noticing that our society does not yet have this issue of recycling. And in the plastic work that I am doing, I try to set an example and make works of art by being content with what I get.
01:37My global principle is that nothing is thrown away, everything can be recycled, the useless can become a work of art.
01:46And when we ask Abdrafi Gdali about his perception of art, he admits that natural elements such as sand, stones, rocks, roots, old objects can invest these paintings.
01:58Abdrafi Gdali is especially happy to walk in the streets of Tangier and that his gaze meets an object, a specimen. As he likes to say, time stops and nothing can prevent him from appropriating it.
02:11And whatever the state of the object, its volume and its quality of conservation, it is very quickly sent to his workshop. Then the reconversion begins. I suggest you listen to him.
02:25My story with cardboard began in 2007-2008, I think, because on the Red Society there was a shop in the building that was open and sold household appliances.
02:46So when I got home, I saw a pile of cardboard lying there. Really, I was seduced, I was moved by this material. I asked the concierge if he was going to throw them away, to pick them up and put them in the cellar of our building. And it started like that, more or less.
03:14Other than cardboard, it is the appellation that Abdrafi Gdali attributes to his plastic research, made until today in 2024. This concept defines visual alternatives that cardboard can evoke and induce when it is subjected to the test of plastic creation.
03:32Cardboard is thus cut into strips of varying lengths, processed, gathered, fused, fixed by juxtaposition and the material subsequently exploited on the scratch side or the cavity side and the strips of cardboard proliferate through the compositions and diversify.
03:50Abdrafi Gdali has his own vision of art and this is what gives him the mental and creative disposition that affirms his singularity. We listen one last time to Abdrafi Gdali.
04:02We studied applied arts in Casablanca. I was there between 1973 and 1976. We were lucky to meet a professor who was our idol, Jean Turc. He taught us art history and even aesthetics.
04:18We did aesthetics when we were in high school. We approached Souriau, Dufresne, Alain. And that aroused in us this concern for artistic thought.
04:35I spent a lot of time in plastic arts training. We were trained in art history, in plastic creation. I can even say that the writer is a thinker.
05:04Writing, for him, is a way to record thoughts and to speak of art in general, to justify his approach.
05:18And music to finish. The phenomenon Angelina Jordan, the Norwegian. We are in 2014. The young Angelina Jordan is 7 years old and subjects the jury of a Norwegian reality TV show with a cover of Gloomy Sunday by Billie Holiday.
05:32A phenomenon is born. The winner of the show has already found everything. She then releases her first EP, My Christmas, before going on tour. Nothing stops the girl who sings Fly Me to the Moon on the set of The View.
05:45One of the most watched shows in the United States and offers an extraordinary media coverage. Not only does she excel in the field of singing, Angelina Jordan also plays piano, violin, guitar and flute.
05:57She is an artist who has certainly not yet revealed everything about her multiple facets. I suggest you listen to an excerpt from her latest clip, Bed Valentine.
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