MOHAMED KABBOUA'S WORK, 2003-2013

Zumeta, pintor vasco:
"Kabboua es un pintor visceral; pinta con las tripas. Autodidacta de una capacidad expresiva impresionante. Gran sentido plástico-estático. Libertad y pasión. Asoma a menudo una vertiente lírica, un expresionismo nítido, de la familia de los alemanes y de la pintura americana de los 50. Un pintor de verdad."

Martin Wallace, pintor inglés:
"I was recently introduced to the paintings of Mohamed Kabboua, in his gallery at Larache on the Northern Atlantic coast of Morocco. And not only to his paintings, but also to his inspired spontaneous style of painting.
A style that is all at once borrowed and highly personal, resembling certain paintings of the twentieth century masters such as Picasso, Matisse or Chagall by certain aspects of his iconography, and also by the methods of reuniting certain symbolic elements.
These methods are, however, at the source of what is referred to as the act of creation, and cannot readily be put into question as to their gestural authenticity. This also being due to the deeply human (and humanizing) expressivity, both innocent and savage, archaic and sublimely archetypical. These images draw aside the veil on an unconscious world, that which lies obscured in the folds of the brash, superficial world that surrounds our waking moments… the underworld, a realm of hidden cycles of existence, past lives, the place where forgotten dreams are waiting silently to speak, a kingdom of crystalline but furtive memories that slip through our fingers, escape our grasp at the moment we awake…
These paintings and the results of their suggestive forms are intimately intertwined; a game of dice with the gods, permanent revolution… the lines that act, gestures that distill eternity… A timeless expression, a being possessed by his passion… the grand game."