Yassine Balbzioui
Plastician
Through my work, I am going to play a game of "ping-pong" with the craftsmen: I start a drawing - ink interventions on the fabric - then the artisans embroider it, and I transform the drawing again, and so on throughout the creative process. The starting point is a bestiary that is half human half animal, freely inspired by fairy tales, but also by the history of Lucknow city, as well as its embroidery techniques.
Yassine Balbzioui is a Moroccan multidisciplinary visual artist. Born in 1972, he graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-arts in Casablanca and Bordeaux. Essentially a painter and drawer, Yassine Balbzioui has developed, in a neo-expressionist vein, a body of works of great formal and semantic richness, in which the representation of human animality, most often in the guise of a mask, intersects with the notions of derision, idiocy and grotesque. While everyday life remains his main source of inspiration, which is constantly transformed by his artistic gaze, Yassine Balbzioui also incorporates a wide range of fields in his creations, from cinema - Z series and horror films - to theater and dance, tales and legends, etc. Yassine Balbzioui has exhibited his work all over the world: Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid (Moroccan Trilogy), 13th Dakar Biennial, Manifesta 13 in Marseille, Iwalewahaus in Bayreuth, MACAAL Marrakech...
- Yassine Balbzioui Plastician
