BIOGRAPHY
Hazdaï was born in Safi, Morocco however, it is in Mazagan (El Jadida), picturesque town that attracts painters, that he receives the better part of his artistic training. It is in this same town that in 1950 he exhibits his first works. In 1953, during his stay at l'Ecole Normale de Paris, he enrolls in various painting and drawing academies. It is in these Montparnasse art studios that he has the revelation of the line, generator of forms and volumes. Back in Morocco he paints insatiably, always questioning his creations. In 1958 he participates in the "Première exposition de la jeune peinture marocaine" where the Arts and Folklore service of Morocco acquire one of his works. From that point on he is seen at all the exhibits: Salon d'hiver de Marrakech, Salon d'automne de Casablanca, Exposition marocaine à Alexandrie to name a few.
In April 1964 he shows the majority of his collection at the Musée National de Bab Rouah in Rabah. Adlaï Stevenson acquires one of the works, "Fantasia" while on official visit to Morocco. The following month, he exhibits in Casablanca. That same year he participates, with other artists that have just formed the first "Association of Moroccan painters", in an art show at the Galerie Charpentier in Paris, at the third "Biennale de Paris" and at the "Rencontre internationale des Arts plastiques" in Rabat. The following year he, once again, exhibits at the Bab Rouah museum where one of the pieces, "Garde noire", is acquired by the Ministry of culture for the royal palace. The French cultural mission offers him the venue of the cultural center and sponsors his last exhibit in Morocco.
His emigration to Canada in 1965 interrupts his Moroccan career and prevents him from participating in "The Sao Paulo biennale" in Brazil. After his arrival in Montreal he becomes member of the "Jeunes amis du musée de Montréal (JAMM)" and shows two works from his Moroccan period. He enrolls at Sir George Williams University in Roy Kiyoka's course. This only has a temporary influence on him as indeed, he soon abandons the Hard Edge style to come back to lyrical abstraction that better projects his internal vision. Concurently with a teaching career he continues to participate in collective shows. In parallel to the painting he pursues a sculpting career.
In 1998, he joins the newly formed Association of Jewish Artists and participate in october in their first exhibition. Invited to the "15th Grand Concours du Cercle des Peintres et Sculpteurs du Québec", he is awarded at the 5e Gala International des Arts visuels 1998 a "Grande Distinction toutes catégories" for one of his exhibited work.. That same year, he makes his presence felt at the annual "Women's Art Society of Montreal" at the Walter Klinkhoff gallery where his "Torso" sculpture receives an Honorable Mention.
He then becomes member of the prestigious "Arts Club" and for three consecutive years, exhibits his recent and less recent works.
In 2001 he becomes president of the "Club de Arts". That same year the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts gallery accepts his bronzes that are quickly acquired by collectors in Australia, France and Montreal.
L'Espace Georges Laoun, in April 2005, offers him its walls for another solo exhibit. Most recently, at the CSUQ Galeria, with a long-time collegue artist, he offers us new creations, again stemming from continuous yet ever-changing, pictorial research.
STATEMENT
The idea is more important than the technique. When I know clearly what I want to say I look for the right technique to express it through the painting or sculpture media.
For me, art is my way to empress my inner world. Others do that through music, poetry .dance or literature
Artists have the privilege to see art and beauty in what others sees leafs, stones, ice rubbish etc. That is what art is all about
Artists are like “semi-gods”; they pick up an ordinary object, change it and give it a new signification.
Is the art work for sale: YES
Is the art work for rent: YES 10% per month (of the full price)
ARTISTIC PATH
None better explained his artistic path than Gaston Diehl, art critic and cultural attaché of the French cultural mission in Morocco. In the preface at his first exhibit in Rabat he writes:
"In a particularly opinionated and lucid effort, we see him in effect, drawing from a few happy accidents, ably researched to have surge from these bluish limbs that are native to him, a world in gestation, still diluted and phantom-like at the boundary between suggestion and knowledge.
Far from all parading, from all useless effort, he pursues this slow penetration into the heart of a sensitive and human universe, teaching us to decipher infinite mysteries." (Preface to the catalogue of the first one man show, March 1963)
HAZDAÏ paintings are found in private collections in Morocco, France, England, Israel, USA, Australia and Canada.
EXHIBITIONS
Première exposition solo à l’âge de 16 ans
1958. Première exposition des Peintres Marocains
« Manifestation » est acquise par le Service des Arts et du folklore
1959. 2e Exposition des Peintres marocains
1960. XIe Salon d’Hiver du Maroc, Marrakech. (Premier prix d’encouragement)
1960. Salon d’Automne Marocain, Casablanca
1963, Exposition solo au Musée Bab Rouah, Rabat.
« Fantasia » est acquise par l’Honnorable A.E.Stevenson, Ambassadeur des USA à l’ONU
1963 Exposition solo Galerie Municipale. Casablanca.
1963. Membre de la « Première Association des Peintres Marocains »
1963. Juillet. « 2000 ans d’Art Marocain. Galerie Charpentier, Paris
1963. Octobre, iiie Biennale de Paris
1964. « Rencontre Internationale des artistes » Marrakech
« Garde noire » est acquise pour le Palais Royal
1964. 2e exposition solo au musée Bab Rouah
1965. Exposition solo patronnée par le Centre Culturel Français à Casablanca.
1965. Immigration au Canada
1965. Exposition de groupe- Musée des Beaux Arts de Montréal (Galerie de l’Etable)
1965 à 1977. Participe à diverses expositions de groupe
1981. Janvier. « Semaine Sépharade »
1982. Juin. « Quinzaine Sépharade »
!998. Octobre. ‘Soyons Fiers » Square Decarie
1998. Concours Annuel du Cercle des Artistes peintres et sculpteurs du Québec.
(Grande distinction toutes catégories)
1999. Exposition de l’A .C .F .M (WASM) Galerie Walter Klinkhoff
(Mention honorable pour la sculpture « Torso »
2000. Exposition « Millennium » WASM - Galerie W. Klinkhoff
2000. Exposition solo « 20 ans après » au Club des Arts, Montréal
2001. Exposition «Spring Odyssey» WASM - Galerie W. Klinkhoff
2002. Exposition « Folie d’avril » WASM (A.C.F.M) – OGILVY- Salle Tudor
2002. Mai. Exposition solo « Œuvres récentes et moins récentes » Club des Arts
2003. Octobre. Galerie vente/location du MBAM. (Sculpture)
2004. Juin. Exposition solo « De l’idée à la création » au Club des Arts, Montréal
2004. Octobre. Exposition Galerie vente/location du MBAM. (Sculpture)
2004. Novembre. Exposition « Festiveart» Congrégation Dorshei Emet
2005. Avril. Exposition solo « Entre réalité et imaginaire » Espace Georges
2006. Mai. Exposition HAZDAI/BEN HAIM. « Deux peintres deux visions »
Galeria, Cavendish Mall
2006. Novembre. Exposition « 3e Festival d’Art » Congrégation Dorshei Emet |
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