Mohsine Alaoui

Mohsine is a figurative painter who considers himself as "the most classic of contemporary painters or the most contemporary of classical painters".

Ph.D. from INSA Lyon, he was former auditor of the Ecole du Louvre in Paris and Atelier Montmartre to artists. Passionate about painting since childhood, he works perpetually a personal graphic touch, to combine the contradictory canons of classical painting and contemporary painting.

From an early age, he archives reproductions of classic paintings in his binder and then tries to copy them. At the age of ten, at the chance of a walk, he discovers an abandoned basket containing watercolor tubes. 

He sees this discovery as a sign.

A world of colors opens up to him and triggers a passion and a diligence at work that still continue today. During adolescence, he developed a fascination for the great masters exhibited at the Louvre. Having become a student in France, it is only at the age of eighteen that he can finally contemplate and confront himself directly with those masterpieces that he has always admired.

His portraits are distinguished by a very particular tension between the passivity of looks and the intense dynamism of his touch. The discreet yet effective use of pure white still affirms the virtuosity and originality of this atypical artist.

The eyes, deliberately passive in his portraits, challenge the viewer and interact with him. They invite him to think. The motionless characters seek to be invisible.

Intensely visible, they attract us and invite us to enter their worlds.