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Mahjoub Ben Bella (Algérie,1946-Lille, 2020)

San Gimignano, 2015 Acrylic on canvas 130 x 97 cm Signed and dated lower right. Titled and dated on the back. Stamp of the artist's estate on the back of the canvas. *** Acrylic on convas Signed and dated lower right. Titled and dated on the chassis. Stamped from the family estate. A Franco-Algerian painter, Mahjoub Ben Bella first studied at the École des Beaux-Arts d'Oran, which he left at the age of 19 for Tourcoing, under the sponsorship of the director of his Ecole des Beaux Arts, Claude Vicente (1929-2017). After graduating in 1969, he continued his training at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs and the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris. From 1969 to 1976, he began his career with the Atelier de la Monnaie. In 1975, he moved to Tourcoing, where he played an active role in the regional art scene, and set up his studio in the former stables of the Joire bank. In 1983, he devoted himself to the creation of a 380 m2 mural in the heart of Lille's city center, contributing to the beginnings of a movement that would come to be known as "street art", a foretaste of his monumental work in 1986: 12km of cobblestones painted as part of the Paris-Roubaix race. At the same time, he was exhibiting with Keith Haring in New York at Jeffrey Deitch and Leila Heller's now legendary "Calligraffitti" show. He went on to exhibit at some of Europe's greatest museums, including the Institut du Monde Arabe and the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, as well as the British Museum in London and the Jordan National Gallery in Amman. Ben Bella is a visual artist whose prolific body of work explores monumental frescoes, ceramics, sculptures, paintings on canvas, paper and wood, as well as happenings. He belongs to what is known as Abstract Expressionism or Lyrical Abstraction, a movement that emerged in the 2nd half́ of the 20th century. His production is characterized by the use of line and bright colors. Questioning the relationship between signs and abstraction, he explores the graphic resources of Eastern and Far Eastern cultures and scripts. Always painting to music, Mahjoub Ben Bella, whose work is based on gesture and the proliferation of rhythm-generating signs, plays with minimal and abstract graphic contrasts. *** A Franco-Algerian painter, Mahjoub Ben Bella first studied at the École des Beaux-Arts d'Oran, which he left at the age of 19 for Tourcoing, under the sponsorship of the director of its Ecole des Beaux Arts, Claude Vicente (1929-2017). After graduating in 1969, he continued his training at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs and the École des beaux-arts de Paris. He began his career working at the Atelier de la Monnaie from 1969 to 1976. In 1975, he moved to Tourcoing, where he played an active role in the regional art scene, and set up his studio in the former stables of the Joire bank. In 1983, he devoted himself to painting a 380 m2 wall in the center of Lille, bringing his colours to the city center and contributing to the beginnings of a movement that would come to be known as "street art", a foretaste of his monumental work in 1986: 12km of cobblestones painted as part of the Paris-Roubaix race. At the same time, he was exhibiting with Keith Haring in New York with Jeffrey Deitch and Leila Heller in the now legendary "Calligraffitti" exhibition. He went on to exhibit in some of Europe's greatest museums, including the Institut du Monde Arabe and the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, as well as the British Museum in London and the Jordan National Gallery in Amman. Ben Bella is a visual artist; his abundant work explores monumental frescoes, ceramics, sculptures, paintings on canvas, paper and wood, as well as happenings. He belongs to what is known as abstract expressionism or lyrical abstraction, a movement that emerged in the 2nd half́ of the 20th century. His work is characterized by the use of line and bright colours. Questioning the relationship between signs and abstraction, he explores the graphic resources of Eastern and Far Eastern cultures and scripts. Always painting to music, Mahjoub Ben Bella, whose work is based on gestures and the proliferation of signs that generate rhythm, plays with minimal and abstract graphic contrasts.

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Mahjoub Ben Bella (Algérie,1946-Lille, 2020)

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