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Abdelkader GUERMAZ (Algérie, 1919-1996)

Vows of astrality, (79) Oil on canvas 98 x 130 cm Signed and dated The work is referenced in the artist's catalog raisonné, under number 0841. *** Oil on canvas Signed, titled and dated. The work is referenced in the artist's catalog raisonné, under number 0841. Recognized as one of the major non-figurative painters of Algerian art in the second half of the 20th century, Guermaz belongs to the generation of founders of modern Algerian painting, along with Khadda (1930-1991), Benanteur (1931) and Aksouh (1934). His abstract paintings express the artist's sensations and emotions, using tangled lines and colored patches. Abdelkader Guermaz was a student at the Oran School of Fine Arts. Between 1940 and 1955, he became interested in the figurative concept of the Peintres de la Réalité poétique. Noticed for his precocious talent by Robert Martin, his paintings rubbed shoulders at the Colline gallery in Oran with those of Algerian and European artists from Algeria, as well as those of Picasso and Bernard Buffet. Around 1955, like other painters of his generation attentive to the example set by the Parisian avant-garde, he gradually moved towards abstraction. He settled in Paris in the autumn of 1961. Guermaz's encounters with Benanteur and Khadda enabled them to develop a common search for a new style. Guermaz took part in the Peintres algériens exhibition in Algiers on November 1, 1963, followed by the exhibition of the same name in 1964 at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, and then at the UNAP Salons in 1964 and 1974. At the end of the 60s, Guermaz embarked on a two-pronged pictorial and spiritual quest for the light he would reflect in his work. Soon, signs would emerge from the white canvas, punctuated patches of color, layered planes, reliefs, "landscapes" that would gradually take on a "symbolic" character. These "landscapes" would take on a different relationship to the world. In them, he celebrates his Unity, within which two worlds are indissolubly linked, the spiritual and the sensible, according to the Sufi conception he shares. In his increasingly refined works, spirit will gradually prevail over matter. He was supported by the Entremonde gallery for almost ten years, until 1981, and was invited to take part in international Salons, in Tokyo in 1972, Teheran in 1974, Tunis in 1980, London in 1981, and created tapestry cartoons for Riyadh airport in Saudi Arabia. Bringing his work into the limelight, Abdelkader Guermaz won public and critical acclaim and died in Paris in 1996. As testimony to his fame, Guermaz's work found its way into numerous public collections, including the Museums of Fine Arts in Algiers and Oran, the Fonds National and Fonds Municipal d'Art Contemporain in Paris, the Algerian Cultural Center and the Institut du Monde Arabe, then the Centre Pompidou, as well as a large number of private collections in Europe, Canada, the United States, Iran, Japan and the Middle East. Today, his paintings are very rare on the art market and rarely appear in auction rooms.

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Abdelkader GUERMAZ (Algérie, 1919-1996)

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