The exhibition “The times are getting longer” by Kamil Bouzoubaa-Grivel, from June 12 to July 21 in Rabat

by times news cr

2024-07-02 15:33:11

On this exhibition, the Franco-Moroccan artist will unveil his newest inventive analysis after six weeks of residency within the Home of Beau workshops: a collection of monochrome drawings made in oil-based ink on coated paper.

This distinctive method, developed by the artist by a technique of in-depth experimentation, permits him to acquire deep, thick, barely raised blacks that mirror mild in a means that remembers the glow of screens, the press launch states, including that it’s a course of that blurs the boundaries between 2D and 3D, thus providing a brand new dimension to graphic artwork.

“This query of the illustration of quantity and depth on the display screen fascinates me and I attempt to thwart it, to transform it in my drawings,” explains Kamil Bouzoubaa-Grivel, quoted within the press launch.

The artist develops a particular visible language, impressed by vector writing, the patterns of comics and textiles, in addition to by the pondering of Jean Arp, in keeping with whom in abstraction, black and white are a part of typography and
linear drawing.

His compositions oscillate between the random and the programmed, mixing geometric patterns from the frames with hand-drawn traces, thus creating an ambiguity between digital drawing, printing and handbook tracing.

“Whenever you take a look at my drawings, you surprise in the event that they had been printed or hand-drawn. The slight reliefs and reflections that I acquire create an area that oscillates between the display screen and the paper,” feedback Kamil Bouzoubaa-Grivel.

A multidisciplinary artist, Kamil Bouzoubaa-Grivel additionally ventures into the observe of sculpture. In his exhibition “Les jours s’allongent”, the artist will current a collection of sculptures made up of shapes minimize out of flat steel plates and welded onto a quantity supporting construction.

Entitled “Oiseau Piment”, these sculptures incorporate an “virtually comical” facet: on the border between figuration and abstraction, they generally evoke acquainted kinds or generate associations of grotesque pictures, the identical supply pressured.

This exhibition “provides the chance to push the boundaries of notion and inventive illustration. It’s an invite to discover past the standard boundaries of artwork, to understand the richness of the artistic potentialities accessible to us,” mentioned Othmane Benlamine, founding father of the Home of Beau gallery, in a press launch.

Born in 1992, Kamil Bouzoubaa Grivel has obtained a number of distinctions, together with the Drawing Prize of the Hugot Basis of the Collège de France in 2019 and the Takesada Matsutani Prize in 2020. In 2023, he obtained the Aide à la création (AIC) from the DRAC and a analysis grant from the ADAGP.

Kamil has exhibited his work specifically on the Pernod-Ricard Basis, at Bétonsalon – Analysis Heart (Paris), at La Panacée – MO.CO (Montpellier), on the Fiminco Basis (Romainville) and on the European Parliament.

Home of Beau is an artwork home devoted to selling progressive inventive expressions and creating distinctive experiences, with the purpose of exhibiting and supporting a gaggle of gifted artists with daring aesthetics and stable theoretical foundations in an effort to foster the emergence of progressive skills, by providing them an built-in platform of worldwide scope.

The gallery goals to advertise cultural alternate and common dialogue between Africa, the Center East and the West by highlighting their widespread heritage, advocating collaboration and experimentation in an effort to stimulate progressive practices and thus contribute to the flourishing of the cultural setting of a wider neighborhood.

2024-07-02 15:33:11

You may also like

Leave a Comment