I am a French figurative painter, born in 1953 in Casablanca to a Romanian father and a Moroccan mother, and I live and work in Paris. Since 2021 I have been painting Behind the Obvious, a series of acrylic canvases...
Read MoreI am a French figurative painter, born in 1953 in Casablanca to a Romanian father and a Moroccan mother, and I live and work in Paris. Since 2021 I have been painting Behind the Obvious, a series of acrylic canvases in which a blue figure faces the bathroom mirror: a figuration I call oneiro-existential.
Before becoming a full-time painter I was an ophthalmic surgeon. After spending my life restoring sight to people, it became urgent for me to offer them a vision as well. The bathroom mirror is where we face ourselves before putting on the social mask; my paintings stay in that grey area between the visible and the invisible, where questions arise rather than answers.
Self-taught, I have been painting for some fifteen years. My earlier work explored abstraction and unconventional materials (crosslinked polyethylene tube, glued pleated canvas, collage) and was shown at Art en Capital in Paris in 2012 and in digital exhibitions at MADS Gallery, Milan, in 2021.
I exhibited at the Salon d'Automne in Paris, in the official selection, in 2024, 2025 and 2026, and held a solo exhibition, No/Yes, at 24Beaubourg, Paris, in 2022. My works are available on Artsper.
www.abrahamaronovitch.com
