Remed, a selection of works on paper
Man and the sky, Dialogue from Moon to Moon, Behind the present, These are evocative titles that evoke Remed’s interest in cosmology and spirituality. The artist’s drawings are both preparatory studies for these paintings and a means of exploring other formats and media.
Who is Remed?
Remed was born in Paris on December 30, 1978. Influenced by both classical 20th-century artists such as Modigliani and Léger, as well as Moroccan Zellige art, Remed’s work is unique and immediately recognizable. Although residing in Madrid, Remed grew up in Lille. After completing a degree in «space communication» at an art school, Remed seemed destined for a career in graphic design, until a friend introduced him to graffiti. After a year and a half experience in a communications agency, he left his job to devote himself to teaching graffiti in schools and social institutions (the intervention at the Children Art Museum in New York in 2011 was a culmination of this vocation). A chance encounter with the artist Mahjoub Ben Bella was the first real turning point in his artistic journey. Realizing that an artist could work in a pure and sincere way, beyond commercial pressures, Remed finds the strength to embrace his own path – he therefore begins to focus more seriously on his work. In 2006, he moves to Sao Paulo. His style begins to take shape and become a form that is now clearly recognizable. From then on, he develops his own language, centered on cosmology and spirituality; he simplifies the form and intensifies the content.
The search of the artist
Working in the intersection of geometry and calligraphy, seeking a mathematical perfection combined with the organic dimension of the gesture, cultivating the energy of the line, Remed seeks to find the truth through simplicity, to discover the universal language: that of form and color. Interrogating the harmony of the «whole,» Remed’s work can be considered imbued with the balance and contrasts characteristic of Islamic art, a visual code in which all parts of the image are involved in a search for synchrony, where nothing has been left to chance. Yet, while his aesthetic experiments emerge from a very personal universe (he describes his painting as a «private journal, a notebook of inventions, or a philosophical essay»), they aim to transcend the «self» in the pursuit of reaching the other. Trying to create a universal dialect, a language capable of crossing social and cultural values through the creation of a primarily visual discourse, Remed attempts to communicate the classic themes and dualities of existence – life and death, illness and health, good and evil – his work is at the border of figuration and abstraction, in order to find a common ground with the viewer.
Remed sees art as a means to heal the soul, a remedy for the mind, as a form of therapy born from introspection, opening to the other through expression. It is the marriage of science and the soul, a way to cope with pain and happiness, love and hate, light and darkness, a remedy for life itself.
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