Omar Bouragba began his artistic journey in the world of calligraphy, a discipline he approached very early on with a distinctive sensitivity. A poet and painter, he has devoted himself to art since 1959. Based in Rabat, he evolved within the artistic milieu of the 1960s, a decisive period for his development. There, he met Mekki Murcia, who organized his first exhibition at La Mamounia in 1965, marking his entry into the Moroccan art scene.
Two years later, in 1967, his exhibition Extrême Limite ou La fusion dans l’Autre, presented at La Maison de la Pensée, further revealed him to Rabat’s cultural public. His encounters with major figures such as Jilali Gharbaoui in 1965 and Ahmed Yacoubi in 1968 deeply influenced his trajectory and reinforced his aesthetic direction.
A prolific artist and passionate thinker, Omar Bouragba has pursued for several decades a body of work where poetry, abstraction and spiritual exploration intersect.
Omar Bouragba’s artistic approach finds its roots in calligraphy, which he considers a space of sensual movement, of letters staged across the surface and accompanied by rhythmic colors. While his early works were shaped by these scriptural forms, his practice has evolved toward a deeply geometric abstraction that he describes as “lyrical geometry”.
The triangle, a recurring motif in his work, often dominates the composition and goes beyond its simple geometric function: it becomes an inner sign, a spiritual vector. His art explores mysticism, the invisible and the symbolic dimensions inspired in particular by Sufism. The “noun”, a central symbol in his reflection, illustrates this extension of letters into visionary realms.
For Bouragba, abstraction is not a style but a path, an initiatory journey that evokes an inner quest leading to a form of revelation. He seeks to create an intimate resonance with the viewer, a deep impact on the soul and the whole being. His work, at the crossroads of poetry and painting, is guided by a quest for unity, transcendence and inner expression.