Un bateau, sans naufrage et sans étoile/Miniatures (2024)

Un bateau, sans naufrage et sans étoile

Fares Thabet

b. 1982 in Hammamet, Tunisia / Lives and works in Tunis, Tunisia

Fares Thabet’s paintings capture landscapes of great complexity and paradoxical serenity. He explores perception and perspective to reveal compositions that introduce scenes of his strolls or of his imaginary pictorial universe. Strongly influenced by the Mediterranean landscape, he handles his color, seeks its vibration and luminous intensity by experimenting with various painting techniques. His approach is centered on color and light as medium and language to depict his landscapes.

Miniatures

Jellal Ben Abdallah

1921-2017 / Born in Tunis, Tunisia

Tunisian artist Jellal Ben Abdallah draws on his ancestral imagination to honour fragments from his Mediterranean and Tunisian surroundings. He proceeds with a technical and delicate minuteness in depicting animate and inanimate subjects altogether. A painter of “feminine ritual”, women in traditional Tunisian attires, as well as motifs from domestic interiors largely occupy his frames, as he captures them with a substance of nobility and divinity. Intricate patterns, graceful and idyllic figures, and ethereal landscapes are constructed through the miniaturist’s lens authentically and nostalgically.