Remed
«Art is for me the sincere union of science and the soul. I live what I feel, I paint what I see.»
Remed was born in Paris on December 30, 1978.
Influenced by both classic 20th-century artists such as Modigliani and Léger, as well as Moroccan Zellige art, Remed’s work is unique and instantly recognizable.
Working in the intersection of geometry and calligraphy, in the search for 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.
Although a resident of 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 communication 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 the culmination of this vocation).
A chance encounter with the artist Mahjoub Ben Bella was the first real turning point in his artistic career.
Realizing that an artist could work in a pure and sincere way, beyond the pressures of commercialism, Remed finds the strength to embrace his own path – he therefore begins to focus more seriously on his work.
In 2006, he moved to Sao Paulo. His style began to take shape and today it has become a clearly recognizable and accomplished form. From then on, he developed his own language, centered on cosmology and spirituality; he simplified the form and intensified the content.
The Moroccan influence manifested in the fusion of geometric and calligraphic elements leads its characters to disappear in flat surfaces and vivid color patterns. The figuration tends towards abstraction. The complex stories it weaves in each of its images function almost like religious parables or folk legends, carrying a profound meaning often overlooked due to their “beauty”.
An obsession arises in him: the relationship between mathematics and aesthetics.
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, although 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 order to reach 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.
Since his return to Madrid, where he now resides, Remed’s work has continued to evolve, developing what is now an inimitable style. While producing increasingly more works in his studio, Remed has continued to cultivate a strong connection with the street, through «the tag,» albeit in a very experimental way, by inscribing philosophical messages in calligraphy (often with chalk) on the walls of his city as well as producing various more elaborate works ranging from collage of posters to the most monumental muralism.
For Remed, all her activities are equally important, both for the act of liberation that constitutes the performance and for the community and social value of the exchange. Each of these disciplines is an opportunity to combine colors and shapes, an opportunity to communicate and experiment, a chance to vibrate and live.
For him, art is simply a means of healing the soul, a remedy for the mind, like a form of therapy that arises from introspection, opening up to the other through expression.
For him, Art is the marriage of science and the soul, a way of dealing with pain and happiness, love and hate, light and darkness, a remedy for life itself. Finding oneself in order to give oneself.
