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Sidi El Karchi - The Mirror
Technique: oil, acrylic and lacquer
Artist Biography:Sidi el Karchi was born in Sittard (The Netherlands) in 1975. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Maastricht in 2001. In 2009, he lived and worked in New York as an artist-in-residence at the I.S.C.P. El Karchi won the Van Bommel Van Dam Award in 2004 and received the Inspiration Award from the Limburg Cultural Fund in 2011. His work has been exhibited at the Bonnenfantenmuseum in Maastricht, the White Box Gallery in New York, the Singer Museum in Laren, the Kunsthal in Rotterdam, the Museum Het Domein in Sittard and during the Art Amsterdam event. In addition, his work can be found in the collections of several museums and in the DSM Artcollection in Heerlen. Sidi El Karchi is an artist whose work contains colorful paintings and drawings with a graphic mood that moves between abstraction and hyperrealism. El Karchi knows better than anyone how to represent silence. His psychological portraits can be interpreted as a "declaration of love to the history of art, painting, man and woman". For the creation of his latest works, digital painting techniques were used. Sidi El Karchi (Sittard, The Netherlands 1975) studied at the Academy for Fine Arts in Maastricht, finishing his degree in 2001. In 2009, he lived and worked in New York as an artist in residence at the I.S.C.P. El Karchi won the the Van Bommel Van Dam price in 2004 and was awarded the Inspirations Prize of the Limburg Culture Fund in 2011. His work has been exhibited in the Bonnefantenmuseum of Maastricht, White Box Gallery in New York, Singer Museum in Laren, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Museum Het Domein in Sittard and during the Art Amsterdam event. Furthermore, his work is in the collection of several museums and of the DSM Art-collection in Heerlen. El Karchi is an artist whose oeuvre contains colorful paintings and drawings with a graphic atmosphere that mediates between abstraction and hyperrealism. He knows better than anyone how to represent silence. His psychological portraits can be interpreted as a "declaration of love to the history of art, painting, man and woman" His latest works are made through digital painting techniques.
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