About Artist

 

Nouiri Mohammed was born in an urban suburb of Rabat the Capital city of Morocco during the beginnings of the 1970's. His natural leaning towards creating art materialised having been stimulated by comics and the cinema as a child. The mix of peoples in Morocco also provided a variety of cultural and visual inspiration.
The enviroment propelled him to be absorbed into the creative mindset. It was when ho visited an exhibition by a Brazilian painter that was the fnal 'push' which gave him the ambition to become a painter
Between 1988 and 1992 Mowiri enrolled at the Tetouan Fine Art School - Here he focused his talent on expressing himsolf whin a framework of expanding the classical compositions to was                                                                                       
introduced to as a part of his 'art-training. He also became very interested in sculpture, which was to have a significance in his artistic development.
Nouini became known in the academic art world in Tetouan by the various awards and participated in a number of exhibitions. He then attended the "Instlut Francais" in Tangier where he further expanded his knowledge as an assistant in the engraving workshop.
It was here that he helped established and accomplished senior artists to translate their work into engravings.
Two artists advised Nouiri about directions that could be pursued in paintings. International artists Claude Viallat and Gerard Titus-Carmel were two of the artists who Nouin had opportunity to discuss art creation with.

Stimulated for art knowlodge Nouiri examined the work of Antonio Tapies, Carlos Garcia Muela and Josep Niebla which deepened his artistic aesthetic. The artist sturbled across a book on Henri
Matisse and totally digested Matisse's wrting on art creation which had enormous effect on his own work
By 1998 Nouiri gained the opportunity to participato in tho Dakar Biennial.
it was at the biennia/ that Nouit met the known sculptor Ousmane Sow. This chance meeting and the discussions he had with the sculptor have had significant influence since that meeting. In 1999 Nouiri spent time in Paris, it was here that the questions of idently grew and as a consequence Nouiri spent time in meditation and self examination.
“between figuration and disfigurement according to the terms of myself, I became torn by a perpetual questioning of the act of painting, as if to affim my multiple affiliations; urban, sub-saharan, and mediterranean and it's spintual connections."