Hocine Ziani Explained

Hocine Ziani
Birth Date:1953 5, df=y
Birth Place:Sidi Daoud, Algeria
Known For:PaintingPlastic arts
Style:Figurative artOrientalismContemporary art

Hocine Ziani (born 3 May 1953) is an Algerian painter and artist in plastic arts.[1]

Early years

Ziani was born on 3 May 1953 in Sidi Daoud to a Kabyle family living in the countryside of lower Kabylia near Zawiyet Sidi Amar Cherif and not far from the course of Oued Sebaou in the current Boumerdès Province.[2] He then spent his childhood in cultural isolation in the first years which coincided with the start of the Algerian revolution.[3]

In 1964, two years after the independence of his country, he enrolled in the primary school of Sidi Daoud at the age of 11 and devoted himself to drawing and art as a self-taught.[4] He joined his internship studies in an accounting college in the nearby town of Bordj Menaïel in 1969, then moved to Algiers in 1973 to continue his studies and obtain an accountant position in a national company.[5]

From November 1974 to February 1977, he performed his military service in the Algerian desert within the Algerian Army, and on this occasion, he discovered the Sahara, in particular the Hoggar and the culture of the Tuaregs.[6] As soon as he returned to civilian life, where he found his professional activity in accounting[7] in 1978 he dropped the profession for art.

Career

Algeria

In 1979, he organized his first individual exhibition in an Algiers gallery, and then joined other artists to found the group of 35 which included M'hamed Issiakhem, Mohamed Temam, Mohammed Khadda, Denis Martinez, Ismaïl Samsom, Choukri Mesli, Ali Ali-Khodja, Hellal Zoubir, Ali Silem, Moussa Bourdine, Mohamed Louaïl, Ali Kerbouche and Tahar Ouamane.[8]

In 1983, the Algerian government, under the chairmanship of Chadli Bendjedid, called on all national visual artists to found a museum dedicated to the history of the country.[9] Ziani then contributed to this project through his works which are generally large format, and which will later enrich the collections of government or presidential institutions.[10]

After a decade of production drawn from the historical theme,[11] Ziani gradually turned away from specialization became interested in the theme of natural spaces, people and fantasies.[12] He then favors free spaces treated in the blur, to give depth to his compositions, and this unlike historical canvases which are very crowded.[13]

The themes of Ziani's paintings started to diversify, and in the spring of 1989, his wish to experiment with other techniques led him to learn lithography when he discovered an old press in one of the workshops of Villa Abd-el-Tif.[14] With the help of his colleague Rachid Djemaï, he put the lithographic machine back into working order, andwith his friend Salah Hioun, painter and engraver, made his first printing tests.[15]

Abroad

In 1992, he left for Paris when Islamist terrorism in Algeria set the country ablaze, where he met the art dealer Daniel Lasnon, running an art gallery. They started collaborating and in 1933 Lasnon organized for Ziani individual and collective exhibitions in Paris, Brussels and in several large cities of France. After his first Parisian exhibition in 1993, Ziani left Algiers and settled in Paris, then in September 1994 he moved to Strasbourg.[16]

In 1997, Ziani joined the Opera Gallery run by businessman and art dealer Gilles Dyan, who presented his works internationally. In this time he won several artistic prizes, including the Prix de l'Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris.[17]

In 2003, he started collaboration with art dealer Victor Perahia who offered him the services of his gallery permanently exhibiting works by Salvador Dalí, Arman, Georges Braque, Louis Toffoli, Claude Weisbuch and others.

In 2010, Ziani along with Layachi Hamidouche, Tahar Ouamane, Rachid Djemaï and Noureddine Zekara represented Algeria[18] at the international painting exhibition organized in South Africa by FIFA. He was responsible for training the group of five artists representing his native country.

In March and April 2013, the city of Chaumont organized a retrospective of his painting of various genres and subjects including the history of Algeria, Venice, still lifes and portraits or horses.

The city of Luxeuil-les-Bains asked Ziani in 2018 for his orientalist works, of which ten of his paintings joined those of Paul Élie Dubois at the Tour des Échevins museum to constitute an exhibition entitled ”Orientalism, crossed views between Paul-Elie Dubois and Hocine Ziani” that lasted from April till October 2019.[19] [20]

Works

Ziani produced paintings in which he used a rich plastic vocabulary, where realism, hyperrealism, impressionism and semi-abstraction interact. Through a game of contrast between foreground and background, it's the burst of light that particularly characterizes his works.[21] [22]

In his works, he explores all the games of shadows and reflections, of contrasts and gradients. As a figurative painter, he creates paintings from the real world while drawing his artistic effects from the resources of the imagination.

Many of his works belong to collections of governmental and presidential institutions in Algeria, France, Morocco, United Arab Emirates, Venezuela, Cuba, Argentina, the royal family of Saudi Arabia, and are also present in private collections throughout the world.[23]

Several of his painted works have been the subject of official acquisitions by several institutions,[24] such as The National Museum of Fine Arts of Algiers,[25] The Central Army Museum, Algiers,[26] The Ministry of Culture, Algiers, The People's National Assembly, Algiers, The Artéum Contemporary Art Museum, Châteauneuf-le-Rouge (Aix-en-Provence), The City Museum of Schwarzach, Germany.

Main exhibitions

Several galleries and exhibitions presented Ziani's works:[27]

Galerie El-Mougar, 1st individual exhibition, 1979

Galerie El-Mougar, Groupe35, 1981

traveling exhibition Groupe35, 1983

Groupe35 exhibition, 1983

Palace of Culture, Bourdine group, Djemai, Kerbouche and Ziani, 1990[28]

Galerie de la Place, 1993, 1996, 2005

Opera Gallery, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2008

Galerie Art-Cadre, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007

Opera Gallery, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002

Salon des Artistes Français, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001

Opera Gallery, 2000, 2001

Brussels Stars Art Gallery, 1994

South Gallery, 1995

Galerie Becker, 1998

The European Biennial of the Thirty, 1998

Oocker Gallery, 2002

Galerie Froessel, 1993, 1995

Arteum Museum, 2001

Art Museum, 2005

Museum of Fine Arts, 2006

Art-Club gallery, ex-galerie de la Place, 2007

Opera Gallery, 2008, 2010

Franco-Swiss meeting, guest of honor, 2008

Authority for Culture and Heritage, 2009

Salon International, guest of honor, 2009

representation of Algeria at the international exhibition of countries qualified for the FIFA World Cup - FIFA, 2010

Internationale Kunstmesse, guest of honor, 2010

13th Salon des Peintres du Marais, guest of honor, 2011

Atmosphere of Venice, thematic exhibition, 2012

St-Art, one-man-show, Art-Cadre Gallery, 2012

at the Chapelle des Jésuites, retrospective organized by the city of Chaumont, 2013

Orient and Venice, Galerie de l'Agora, Council of Europe, 2013

Ad Vitam Aeternam, group exhibition (Brayer, Buffet, Dali, Laporte, Tobiasse, Toffoli, Weisbuch, Ziani), Pérahia gallery, 2014

Vittel international painting and sculpture exhibition, guest of honor, 2018[31] [32]

Salon Epon'Arts, guest of honor, 2019[33]

Art67, 5th biennial, edition sponsored by Ziani, 2019[34] [35]

Exhibition at the Musée de la Tour des Echevins, "Orientalism, crossed views between Paul-Elie Dubois and Hocine Ziani", 2019[20]

26th Salon d’Art, 2020.[36]

Awards

See also

Bibliography

Monograph

External links

Notes and References

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  2. Web site: Peintres algériens 13 : Hocine Ziani Art arabe, Peintre, Cerf dessin. 2021-03-26. Pinterest. en.
  3. Web site: Peintres algériens 13 : Hocine Ziani. 2021-03-26. Chroniquesalgeriennes.
  4. La peinture monumentale en Algérie. Pouillon. François. Cahiers d'Études africaines. 1996. 36 . 141–142. 183–213. 10.3406/cea.1996.2008. fr.
  5. Web site: Hocine ZIANI. 2021-03-26. eponarts.org. fr. 26 February 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210226044114/https://eponarts.org/hocinaziani/. dead.
  6. Book: نقد: مجلة للدراسات و النقد الاجتماعي. 2002. Société d'édition, d'animation scientifique et culturelle. fr.
  7. Web site: Vittel Salon. Un vivier d'artistes internationaux au salon Peinture et Sculpture. 2021-03-25. www.vosgesmatin.fr. FR-fr.
  8. Web site: Hocine ZIANI Un artiste peintre de renommée internationale - PDF Free Download. 2021-03-26. docplayer.fr.
  9. Book: Pouillon, François. Dictionnaire des orientalistes de langue française. 2008. KARTHALA Editions. 978-2-84586-802-1. fr.
  10. Web site: iflisen. Hocine Ziani, artiste plasticien kabyle de Dellys - La confédération des Iflisen Umellil. 2021-03-26. La confédération des Iflisen Umellil. fr.
  11. Book: Salami. Gitti. A Companion to Modern African Art. Visona. Monica Blackmun. 2013-10-22. John Wiley & Sons. 978-1-118-51505-1. 204. en.
  12. Book: L'année du Maghreb. 2008. CNRS Éditions. 9782271066978 . fr.
  13. Web site: Hocine Ziani حسين زياني . 2021-03-26. www.ouraction.net. en. 13 May 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240513192627/https://www.ouraction.net/hocineziani/?lang=en. dead.
  14. Book: مجتمعات الاسلامية من خلال الآثار الفنية: أشغال الندوة المنعقدة بتونس من 10 إلى 13 ماي 1993. 1996. C.E.R.E.S.. fr.
  15. Web site: Post. The Casbah. 2016-11-17. Hocine Ziani : l'Algérie dans sa splendeur et sa simplicité. 2021-03-26. The Casbah Post. fr-FR.
  16. Web site: Sublimes oeuvres de Hocine Ziani ..L'Algérie et sa splendeur. 2021-03-26. Algerie-dz.com. 12 November 2019 . fr.
  17. Web site: 2009-10-03. Peintre : Hocine Ziani - La Compagnie des Déserts. 2021-03-26. compagniedeserts.canalblog.com. fr.
  18. Web site: "South African Joy" - by Asbjorn Lonvig, Denmark - Official Licensed Products of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. 2021-03-26. www.lonvig.dk. 25 May 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220525041031/https://www.lonvig.dk/south-african-joy.htm. dead.
  19. Web site: 2019-05-21. Exposition : Orientalisme, regards croisés entre Paul-Elie Dubois et Hocine Ziani. 2021-03-25. Artistes Contemporains. fr-FR.
  20. Web site: EXPOSITION L'ORIENTALISME : REGARDS CROISÉS ENTRE P-E. DUBOIS ET H. ZIANI - Haute-Saône. 2021-03-25. www.eterritoire.fr. fr.
  21. Web site: Hocine ZIANI Un artiste peintre de renommée internationale - PDF Téléchargement Gratuit. docplayer.fr. 1 May 2024.
  22. Book: musulman, Institut de recherches et d'études sur le monde arabe et. L'image dans le monde arabe. 1995. CNRS éditions. 978-2-271-05305-3. fr.
  23. Web site: Côte de Ziani Hocine Achat d'Œuvres aux Encheres et en Direct Auction.fr. 2021-03-26. www.auction.fr.
  24. Book: Rosenman, Anny Dayan. La guerre d'Algérie: dans la mémoire et l'imaginaire. 2004. Bouchène. 978-2-912946-81-2. fr.
  25. Book: Cherbi, Massensen. Algérie. 2017-10-16. De Boeck Superieur. 978-2-8073-1325-5. fr.
  26. Book: Cahiers d'études africaines. 1996. Mouton.. fr.
  27. Web site: List of exhibitions. artacademie.com . 2021-03-27.
  28. Book: Cheurfi, Achour. Le livre des peintres algériens: dictionnaire biographique. 2004. Éditions Anep. 978-9961-756-64-5. fr.
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  31. Web site: Vittel : des grands noms de l'Art jusqu'au 24 juillet. 2021-03-26. France 3 Grand Est. 17 July 2018 . fr-FR.
  32. Web site: 35ÈME SALON INTERNATIONAL DE PEINTURE ET SCULPTURE DE VITTEL - Vosges. 2021-03-26. www.eterritoire.fr. fr.
  33. Web site: Epon'arts, arts équestres. 2021-03-26. Ville de Nogent-sur-Marne. fr-FR.
  34. Web site: admin. 2019-03-08. ART 67 BIENNALE EXPOSITION 2019 DUTTLENHEIM. 2021-03-26. Christiane ALLENBACH aquarelle. fr-FR.
  35. Web site: Hocine Ziani parrain d'Art 67. fr. Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace. April 30, 2019. March 25, 2021.
  36. Web site: Du 29 février au 8 mars : Salon d'Art, 26e du nom - Commune de Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines. 2021-03-26. saintarnoultenyvelines.fr.
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  39. Web site: Salon d'art - Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines. 2021-03-26. Office de tourisme de Rambouillet. fr. 25 February 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200225182716/http://www.rambouillet-tourisme.fr/fr/information-touristique/salon-dart-saint-arnoult-en-yvelines.html?no_cache=1. dead.
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  41. Web site: Salon Annuel. 2021-03-26. www.lespeintresdumarais.fr.
  42. Web site: French. La Reine de Saba rencontre Salomon. Magazine. 2015. 14 May 2019.
  43. Web site: French. Hocine Ziani, Le maitre de la lumière. Magazine. 2017. 14 May 2019.

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