Christie's: How the Casablanca Art School helped to transform post-independence Morocco

Alastair Smart, Christie's

 ‘There was a feeling of newness everywhere’

Morad Montazami, curator of a new exhibition at Tate St Ives in Cornwall, explains how a trio of artist-professors drew on Arab and Berber heritage to overturn colonial convention and usher in an era of avant-garde artistic expression in the 1960s.