Presentation
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