Hassane Amraoui, whose works bear the name of his artistic alter ego, Chlag, was born in Aures, North Africa. For more than 20 years, he has promoted the ancestral visual language that first sprung from Berber culture by producing work inspired by it. His art is made of brushstrokes that go on forever and intertwined threads while his colours take on the warm nuances of the earth.
He paints the desert, Amazigh tribal people, mountains, nomads, the blue men of the Sahara, ancient women, the first drawings known to man, lies, treason, and violent divisions that cut deep into society and stone alike. Chlag creates and exhibits his work in North Africa (above all in Algeria and Tunisia), in France, in various parts of the mother-continent of Africa and, for the last 13 years, in Montreal’s energetic cultural scene.
For the benefit of art lovers and collectors, as well as for the pleasure it will bring to the people of Montreal during this the 375th anniversary of our city, twenty or so works by this major artist and master of essentialism will be on sale alongside of the works of the Espace Mushagalusa African Art collection.