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Redouane Benzemmouri is a plastic artist , Art Director & Ambassador of International Art Caravan, and the member of the “IAF ANIMA MUNDI” International Association & Foundation. He was born in 1987 in Azemmour, Morocco. He lives and works in Dubai (UAE), he is a multidisciplinary talent whose works includes drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, and photography. Benzemmouri holds a baccalaureate of Fine Arts from the MV High School in Essaouira, and as of 2001, has participated in exhibitions in Morocco and abroad. Distinguished by a unique style and a distinct vision that shapes his paintings, he describes and borrows from the colors, lines and artistic values that are associated with the drawings of the greatest plastic artists at the global level. He speaks of admiration for those who were acclaimed by drawing from instinct and spontaneity, while trying to surround all that surrounds them of abstract shapes, or haunted inside them, and to present them in the form of paintings full of emotions and feelings overflowing, so they are easy to reach for the recipient.

Benzemmouri has won many awards; the most important of which are the International Caravaggio Award for Contemporary Artists in 2018, and first prize in the regional competition for young plastic artists organized by the Moroccan Ministry of Culture in 2013. He recently received a certificate of accreditation for the category of creative people of culture and art from the Culture and Arts Authority in Dubai. His first solo exhibition, held 2005, which was his gateway to professionalism, was in the space of Dar David in Essaouira. Benzemmouri’s participation in numerous national and international festivals and biennial group shows include, North Africa, Europe, Asia and the Americas. Benzemmouri’s resume also includes works in the permanent museum of Ceuta (Morocco - Spain), as well as the Yukung Art Museum, Geje, South Korea and the Museum of Visual Arts in Dezful, Iran. Works in private collections, both in and outside Morocco, include France, Germany, the United States of America, Italy, Sweden, China, Saudi Arabia, Belgium South Korea and Iran.

Benzemmouri fashions through his works, with combined masses of colors and storied ideas, a kind of simulation, like visual personification, that creates a kind of astonishment and exoticism for the recipient, motivating the viewer to indulge in the thrill of discovery and interpretation. These paintings carry ideas and concerns that parallel the imagined desire of the artist and his visual horizon, or what is formed in his subconscious, Quoting Aristotle, “The purpose of art is to embody the secret essence of things, not to reproduce their forms.” This is what Redouane Benzemmouri seeks in his advanced works. To integrate elements that make abstract expressive techniques its primary goal and, in addition to symbolism, one that plants its goal in large-scale achievements and monochrome backgrounds with simple shapes, transforming them into an open space for all readings. The work combines aesthetics, innovation and sophisticated artistic flair, which takes one distances in the world of beautiful feelings; as if one is flying in the sky of meanings, formed by colors or as a symphony that spreads melodies and rhythms. It is to enjoy them when embracing the emotionallity and the feeling of self.

Redouane Benzemmouri (Marocco), Title: “Chasing Tomorrow” , mixed technique on canvas, 60 x 80 cm, 2017