Elias Biography
521 Greene Av - Apt 1
Brooklyn, NY 11216
Brooklyn contact phone (1) 917 214 2771
I was born in Morocco and live in Toulouse, France and Brooklyn, New York.
I earned a masters degree at the Art & Business Institute of Paris.
After a long career at HR and Corp University VP, I started painting in 2002 and it has rapidly become my main activity, along with the promotion of local visual artists.
Artist Statement:
SOURCE OF INSPIRATION
The weight of history is important and it is added to my paintings in successive layers.
· The surprised people facing grandiose terrestrial phenomena such as volcanoes, lava flows, meteorites, statues of rough stone.
· The exit- or Yatzia - of Egypt, of Jerusalem, of Spain, of Morocco and of Catalonia: places of bright colours and with many contrasts.
. The key masters painting Venus and other Graces... but with female bodies free of the
aesthetic canons dictated by males
SENSATIONS
A painting is finished when one day, I wake up, and the passion I experienced with my work is only a gentle memory.
I reach my goal when a spectator doesn't just walk past my painting, but actually stops, intrigued by the implicit clues that are discernible through the variant shapes displayed.
I try to transmit the emotion of the magical moment with a secretive wink with the spectator.
Some repetitive themes:
· The indiscreet peeping on a woman behind a window, or in the darkness of a bar.
· Nature is present in my art; but a nature the spectator cannot see, that he neglects.
I also like to transcribe magical moments, like in the clichés of Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa or Arthur Tress.
At the present moment, I am leading the artistic experiences that I could have lived at 45 years ago in Barcelona, Spain: a possible meeting with Tapies and Picasso at Els 4 gats, but also a virtual meeting with Arte Povera artists or Pollock, Dubuffet, Rothko, Richter and the Gutai painters.
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