Farid Saâdi

About The Artist

         Born in France in 1959, Farid has been drawing and painting from a very young age. His parents rapidly noticed his skill in drawing. Then, barely a teenager, he naturally started painting with gouache paint, and afterward, with oil paint.

          He loves painting, but declares his first love of sketching since he grants a primordial importance to the quality and the exactness of his line.

          That is the reason why, leaving nothing to chance, he studied perspective in order to deal with his artwork in depth as it has to be.

          He is an expert in ancient oil painting methods, in order to get a perfect result by using glazings. He only works with four pigments, either with water colour or oils, yellow ochre, madder lake deep, which is a deep red, ultramarine deep and burnt umber. Therefore he gets different hues perfectly harmonized.

          Farid's style can be described as realistic, vivid and very detailed. He is profoundly inspired by the use of chiaroscuro, the treatment of light and shade in drawing and painting, which prevails throughout his work. 

          Appealing to the concept of pareidolia, or the way how things are percieved through a pattern or meaning where it does not actually exist, using shapes, shadows and light. Farid sweeps us along into his artistic world where landscapes and people are combined. Surrealism, his central theme, revolves around the beauty of women which, in his pieces, echoes the beauty of nature. It is a kind of optical illusion making the visitor linger on his artwork in order to understand what is hidden, using pareidolia as an artistic and visual tool. 

        "For me, art is an inner journey and should not simply stop at the boundary of Realism but break through this obstacle and plunge us into the very core of imagination, of surrealism, where each painting brings a moment of silence and a reason to quiet our minds. I think we have to call our imagination, the fantasy, with the help of pareidolia, in order to enthrall the attention of the viewer. Art must not stop to hyperrealism but have to go farther, beyond the boundaries of reality.

         If only I could draw a line in the sky to prevent the sun from going down in order to never interrupt creation!"
Expositions / Exhibitions 

2024  Salon des Artistes Français, Grand Palais, ART CAPITAL, PARIS

         38è Salon de Printemps DOURDAN

         77è Salon du HUREPOIX invité d'honneur en individuel

2023   Salon des Artistes Français, Grand Palais, ART CAPITAL, PARIS

          Salon du Dessin d'Art, GRAVIGNY

          76è Salon du HUREPOIX Lauréat

          42è Salon Artistique Régional de La Vallée de l'Eure 

          4è Biennal des Beaux-Arts , RAMBOUILLET

          ART SHOPPING DEAUVILLE

          ART SHOPPING CARROUSEL du LOUVRE, PARIS

2022  

         15è Biennale peinture animalière RAMBOUILLET

         Prix "Coup de Cœur" Académie Internationale d'Art contemporain ARTLOOKONE Lauréat

         Prix de LA PRESSE 2022 Galerie THUILLIER, PARIS Lauréat

         Prix DU JURY 2022 Galerie THUILLIER, PARIS 

         Salon du Dessin de GRAVIGNY 

2021   ART SHOPPING  CARROUSEL du LOUVRE, PARIS

          3ème Biennale des Beaux-Arts de RAMBOUILLET

          40ème Salon Artistique Régional de La Vallée de l'Eure 

2020   39ème Salon Artistique Régional de La Vallée de l'Eure  invité d'honneur

          Salon des Artistes Français, Grand Palais, ART CAPITAL, PARIS Lauréat Mention

          Prix De LA PRESSE 2020 Galerie THUILLIER,  PARIS Lauréat

          Prix du JURY 2020 Galerie THUILLIER,  PARIS

2019   Salon des ARTS EVREUX

          Salon Peinture et Sculpture de BRETEUIL

          11è SALON BUSINESS ART FAIR L'Art du NU, PARIS 6è

          Salon VOISINS LE BRETONEUX

          Biennale des Beaux-Arts de RAMBOUILLET

          72è Salon d'AUTOMNE SAINT MANDE

          38è Salon Artistique Régional de la Vallée de l'Eure MAINTENON-PIERRES

          Salon de l'Artistique de L'ISLE ADAM au Château CONTI

          Salon d'Arts Plastiques de LA ROCHELLE  Lauréat

          Trophée CARRARE au Haras National de SAINT LÔ

          21è salon régional du petit format, CHARTRES Lauréat

          17è salon de peinture & sculpture SAINT SEBASTIEN DE MORSENT Lauréat

          80è salon des artistes indépendants Normands, ROUEN

          Salon des indépendants, Grand Palais, ART CAPITAL, PARIS

2018   Exposition internationale ARANIMA, BRUXELLES, BELGIQUE

          KUBOTA Gallery, TOKYO, JAPON

          Salon de la rentrée 2018 Galerie THUILLIER, PARIS

          20è salon régional du petit format, CHARTRES

          80è salon des artistes indépendants Normands, ROUEN

2017   Salon des Arts d'EVREUX

          Exposition internationale ARANIMA, PARIS

          Salon de la rentrée 2017 Galerie THUILLIER, PARIS

          19è salon régional du petit format, CHARTRES

          79è salon des artistes indépendants Normands, ROUEN

2016   Musée du vignoble Drouais, DREUX

          TREMBLAY-les-villages

2000   Salon des peintres amateurs d'EVREUX Lauréat

          Salon du Lions Art d'EVREUX Lauréat

1999   Château de NOGENT LE ROI

1998   Château de CHAMBORD, Loir-et-Cher

1997   Exposition salon d'Art européen, PARIS

1994   Chapelle de l'Hôtel-Dieu, DREUX

1993   Chapelle de l'Hôtel-Dieu, DREUX

1991   Beffroi, DREUX

1988   Chapelle de l'Hôtel-Dieu, DREUX