Nour-Eddine Jarram

Date: 6 May - 9 Juni 1991

In the context of the national manifestation ‘The Climate’, Stroom assembled an overview of paintings and pastels (1987–1991) by Nour-Eddine Jarram (1956), a Moroccan-born artist living in the Netherlands.

Cees van der Geer in Haagsche Courant (17-05-1991):
“Jarram clearly seeks a confrontation between two cultures in his work: Dutch windmills and tulips versus the earthen architecture of the desert and a Persian miniature as a backdrop for the women from Matisse’s Danse (1909). The arched window of a mosque reveals a view of the Statue of Liberty, which suspiciously resembles a harem lady, and Western superficiality is countered with Eastern wisdom: ‘A mouse can only give birth to a mouse.’ Jarram is a lion!”