CONTRAST

THE WORK

Mourad Messoubeur intercepts the living, bringing an infinitely tiny world to life by applying flesh tints of microorganisms onto the transparent surface of plexi-glass. That which marries with precious materials consists of moulds, of multi-cellular organisms. The atmosphere, air, humidity, the dissemination and germination of multicellular organisms are captured together in this transparent medium.

The work makes reference to the earth and climatic changes, but at the same time represents the origin of life from thousands of varieties of fungi.

MOURAD MESSOUBEUR

Mourad MESSOUBEUR was born in 1964.

Today he is a visual artist who lives and works in Marseille.

2011 – Galerie Artaé, Lyon
2009 – Still Life BioVision Palais des congres de Lyon. France
2006 – Galerie du Tableau, Marseille
2004 – Galerie Olivier Houg, Lyon
2003 – Le Moulin, La Valette du Var
2002 – Mourad Messoubeur, Artothèque Antonin Artaud, Marseille
2000 – Expérience croisée, Espace exposition, Aventis CropScience, site de la Dargoire, Lyon
– Pavillon Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence
1999 – Musée Saint-Benoît, Digne-les-Bains
– Galerie de prêt, Médiathèque intercommunale, Fos-sur-Mer
1998 – Galerie du Centre Culturel Français de Palerme et Sicile, Italie
– Galerie internationale Design-Pavillon, San Francisco, Etats-Unis
1997 – Vacances bleues, Mécénat artistique, Marseille
1994 – Institut Cervantès, Alger, Algérie
1993 – Musée national des beaux-arts d’Alger, Algérie
1993 – Galerie des Centres culturels français en Algérie
1991 – Galerie Isma, Office Riadh el Fath, Alger, Algérie

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