Mihoub
No Woman no cry
2019
Gouache on canvas
102 × 102 cm
Unique
Location: Offemont, France
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726190941
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About the artwork
Taking his title from the words of Bob Marley's famous song, Mihoub presents a figure with a few facial features and a stylized heart. With a thick brushstroke adding a new dimension to his work, the artist offers us a profusion of symbols and colors reminiscent of Jean-Michel Basquiat's practice. Although his work is often associated with art brut - a term used by Jean Dubuffet to designate artists unaware of creating art - Mihoub asserts his artistic approach and prefers to define himself by Socrates' quotation: "All I know is that I know nothing".
Expert opinion
Mihoub's canvas is distinguished by a saturation of symbols and pictorial matter concentrated on the figure, while the yellow background breaks with the horror of emptiness usually present in his work.
About the artist
Born in 1976 in Oran (Algeria), Mihoub is an artist who lives and works in France. His artistic career began in 2001 in San Francisco, where he arrived with just $140 in his pocket. He spent five years in the United States, first writing poems and taking part in readings in bookshops, then creating his first drawings in Union Square, in the heart of San Francisco. Influenced by Picasso, Jackson Pollock and André Breton's Surrealist manifestos, his work is distinguished by an approach reminiscent of Jean-Michel Basquiat. In 2006, Mihoub returned to Europe and, in 2014, began collaborating with the Pébéo company, creating pictorial performances in France and abroad. He is represented by Galerie Artableaux in L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, Galerie Bel-Air Fine Art in Honfleur and Aix-en-Provence, and Galerie du Levant in Porto-Vecchio.
“I paint as I breathe.”
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