Larbi Cherkaoui

Larbi Cherkaoui is a Moroccan painter born in 1972. He has a degree in plastic arts, and his artistic approach is based on the hybridization of traditional Arab calligraphy and of fine arts. His characters inundate the canvases, where he occupies the space with his rounded forms. With this approach, Larbi Cherkaoui seeks to free the Arabic letter of its orthodoxism to make it a universal sign, that belongs to cosmogony, incribing it in an abstract kind of optical space .

He does his own supports, carefully preparing the canvas, the leather or the wood. Creating thus striking chromatic compositions, combining furor and delicacy, darkness and acidity, brilliantly.

Larbi Cherkaoui's work has been the object of about fifteen solo exhibitions and about twenty group exhibitions, mainly in Morroco and France.