INSECTICIDE AN ART EXHIBITION May 15 thru June 22, 2010

ARTIST STATEMENT
Dress the fabrics of eternity
First, the sheet is blank, then comes the design, and finally the color. I love satin, so these works were conceived with the idea of seeing them on clothing, but the most important thing was to be faithful to the public and, especially, to myself. I am therefore giving the best I can in the most sincere manner, for it comes from the deepest part of my heart.

I use symbols that reflect life’s most important elements. Bubbles that bring to mind the cells that represent life, you can see in them the air bubbles that form when you dive underwater. They are the multicolored planets of the Amarian Galaxy. The sensations are reproduced on paper to create pictures and share my happiness. Ideas brought back from Los Angeles, Agadir, Istanbul, Budapest or Tahiti, travels that allow me to draw from continuously renewed sources of inspiration.

Influenced by the Mediterranean flavors in my blood, I mix ingredients that are (overall) light in tone and free of darkness. I’ll remind you that I was angry with black, that marvelous color, for 17 years and that now that I have reconciled with it, I invite you to travel in my universe, a garden of love where peace and brotherhood reign. I need not remind you that it’s something we all need.

I paint alone in my studios in Tunis and Paris, in the calm far from the hustle and bustle, even if it gets more and more difficult to isolate oneself nowadays. In this way I give my artistic nature free rein and dive into a world in which God is color for creating pictures that are balanced and full of brightness.

BIO

Amar’s happy paintings have been represented in public and private collections in more than twenty different countries all over the world. Amar has been showing off his colours since the age of ten to cheer people up and to spread joy. Born in Paris 1979.

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2010- Personal exhibition at the Cairo Modern Art Museum, Gallery Al-Bab

2009- Personal exhibition at Marassatrois Gallery, Paris.

Group exhibition at Daniel Besseiche Gallery, Paris.

2008- Group exhibition in Seoul, South Korea.

The book “Amar, le jardin des couleurs” comes out, published by MC  Editions (80 paintings).

Exhibition in Nagoya, Japan.

Festival of Plastic Arts of Mahares, Tunisia.

Personal exhibition in Lyon, France.

Realization of a mural for the Urban Art Museum in Turin, Italy.

Personal exhibition at the D Gallery of Turin, Italy.

International exhibition (Artists from 72 countries) Valetta, Malta.

2007- Personal exhibition at the Medina Gallery, Tunis.

2006- Personal exhibition in Tokyo, Japan.

Named Officer of the Order of Cultural Merit in Tunisia.

Personal exhibition at UNESCO Headquarters, Paris.

2005- Personal exhibition at the French Cultural Center in Sana’a, Republic of Yemen.

2004- Exhibition at the Arab World Institute in Paris.

2002- Personal exhibition in Grenoble, France.

1999- Exhibition at the UNESCO palace, Beirut, Lebanon.

Bronze medal from ELITE.

1998- Exhibition at the Foreign Press Association in London.

1997- Exhibition at the museum at Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia.

Biennale of Malta, prize and special distinction.

Exhibition at the World Bank, Washington, D.C., USA.

Personal exhibition at the A Part Gallery of Paris, under the patronage of the French minister of cooperation.

Group exhibition at the International Cultural Center of Hammamet,  Tunisia.

… 1996-Joint exhibition for the winter festival at the «Art Présent» Gallery, Paris.