Vue 2 escalier Maison de verre (2009) Photography by Hocine Ali Benali

After high school in Algeria, Hocine Ali Benali enrolled at the National School of Fine Arts where he continued his studies in architecture. In this exceptional place in the heart of Paris, the student, who has been drawing and painting since childhood, regularly visits art workshops and museums. Very quickly, the first sketches revealed to him the possibility of articulating, of bringing into harmony professional practice and the expression of his sensitivity.

In a constantly renewed approach, the artist integrates the random as a dynamic Creation. Passionate about the arts, architecture and the relationship that these have with science and technology, he uses painting, a sincere gesture of love and anger, as he likes to define it, to create a a relevant path in the chaos, weaving uncertain links freely, giving reality a taste of carelessness and happiness in life.

Pastels, oils, inks, acrylics or other techniques and supports offer this painter-architect the place of an incessant search for architectures without constraints, simple forms with complex mirrors revealing at the bend of a line, a point, a trace, the simultaneous adventure of the sensitive and the reality of men beyond borders and cultures. .

His first personal exhibition took place in November 1987 in Algiers.

• Nationality: ALGERIA
• Date of birth : 1952
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Contemporary Algerian Artists