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Rapha\u00ebl-Bachir Osman<\/span><\/span> (born 1992) graduated from the Haute \u00c9cole des Arts du Rhin<\/span><\/span> (HEAR Mulhouse) and also studied in 2016 at the Kunsthochschule Weissensee in Berlin.<\/p>\n

From 2017 to 2020, he was co-director of Erratum Galerie, an artist-run space located in Berlin, Kreuzberg. He has taken part in numerous group exhibitions in Berlin and, in 2019, his work was shown at Kunst Raum Riehen (Basel), at the Biennale Jeune Cr\u00e9ation Mulhouse 019, and for the Prix de Novembre in Vitry. In 2020, he was nominated for the R\u00e9v\u00e9lations Emerige Prize and received a research and creation grant from the Cr\u00e9ation en Cours program of the Ateliers M\u00e9dicis.<\/p>\n

Rapha\u00ebl-Bachir Osman develops a multifaceted practice ranging from painting to installation. Working alone or collaboratively, he joyfully questions every stage in the life of artworks and the compelling notion of originality\u2014from creation to installation and exhibition.<\/p>\n

Attentive to the formal, symbolic, kitsch, or outdated oddities of everyday life, he extracts, projects, and reinvests sensual and surprising motifs into the reflective spaces of the white cube or onto canvas. By blending registers and tones, materials and effects, he skillfully plays with a singular humor that borders on the absurd, bad taste, or perhaps the keys to a mystical symbolism whose codes remain to be deciphered.<\/p>\n

As Camille Bardin (October 2021) writes, painting for him is a matter of pleasure and camaraderie. He first painted sausages in all kinds of situations\u2014his first \u201cmodels.\u201d Then came ducks, pretzels, dishcloths. These objects become folkloric characters, much like the lemon or asparagus were for Manet.<\/p>\n

His studio becomes a playground where anecdotes multiply. Everyday objects\u2014such as a table tennis racket, once a simple palette\u2014are elevated to the status of support, becoming contemporary tondi<\/em>. He gathers fragments of the world: a snack from an aperitif, a detail from a Flemish painting, memories of Sunday afternoons. There is no hierarchy of subjects\u2014what matters is his bold desire for painting.<\/p>\n

One motif persists: the sky. For Osman, limits and frames dissolve. The recurring blue becomes a leitmotif\u2014from the skies he saw in Berlin\u2019s museums to the iconic wallpaper of Toy Story<\/em>, even the Windows 98 desktop background. What is usually a background becomes the subject itself: a window onto the world, as painting is for him an escape, a field of possibilities, an infinite playground.<\/p>\n

Camille Bardin \u2014 October 2021<\/p>\n

Selected Exhibitions<\/h3>\n
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2022<\/h3>\n
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    72nd Salon Jeune Cr\u00e9ation, Fondation Fiminco, Romainville<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    2021<\/h3>\n
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      Novembre \u00e0 Vitry 2021, Galerie Municipale Jean-Collet, Vitry-sur-Seine<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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      X4H8+FM<\/em>, Kulturparke Stolpe (Germany)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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      I Believe I Can Fly<\/em>, Le Port des Cr\u00e9ateurs, Toulon<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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      Ils ont dit oui<\/em>, curated by Marc Molk, Institut Almateo Venice & Marguerite Milin Galerie, Paris<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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      Un monde \u00e0 votre image<\/em>, R\u00e9v\u00e9lations Emerige 2020, curated by Ga\u00ebl Charbeau, H\u00f4tel des Arts de Toulon<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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      Cr\u00e9puscule<\/em>, R\u00e9gionnale 21, COOP, Strasbourg<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      2020<\/h3>\n
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        Erotish<\/em>, Chapelle XIV, Paris<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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        Un monde \u00e0 votre image<\/em>, nominated for R\u00e9v\u00e9lations Emerige 2020, Paris<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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        Belph\u00e9gor<\/em>, curated by Folle B\u00e9ton, Maison Fraternelle, Paris<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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        The Berlin Dog Show 2020<\/em>, Erratum Galerie, Berlin<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        2019<\/h3>\n
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          Novembre \u00e0 Vitry 2019, Galerie Municipale Jean-Collet<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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          Biennale de la Jeune Cr\u00e9ation Mulhouse 019<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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          Kein Konzept, Ja #4<\/em>, Erratum Galerie, Berlin<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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          Oasis<\/em>, La Kunsthalle Mulhouse<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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          New Deals<\/em>, Kunstraum Riehen, Regionale 19, Switzerland<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n

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          Portrait photo credit: Florian DAUTCOURT<\/em><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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