Artist Name: Raphaël-Bachir Osman
Residency Dates: February – July 2023
Born: 1992
Hometown: Paris, France
Lives & Works: Mulhouse, France
URL: raphaelbachirosman.com | Instagram: @raphael_bachir_osman
Education:
2017 | Master’s Degree, Haute Ecole des Arts du Rhin (HEAR), Mulhouse, France
2015-2016 | Exchange Program, Kunsthochschule Weissensee Berlin, Painting Dep.
2014 | Bachelor Studies, Haute Ecole des Arts du Rhin (HEAR), Mulhouse and Strasbourg, France
2012 | Bachelor Studies, Visual Communication at Le Corbusier, Strasbourg
Bio/Statement:
At all costs, never lock yourself into a style. Always subordinate the painting to the subject. To make every detail an obsession. Finally, to avoid boredom. There are the watchwords that guide Raphaël-Bachir Osman’s pictural work. His series on the theme of delicacies honours pastries: éclair with velvety icing, generous chocolate biscotti on a gingham tablecloth, embossed mille-feuille toppings worked in series with a piping bag, etc. Since the subject indicates its technical treatments, the oil paint must be smeared on the canvas as one spreads chocolate on the toast. Through a claimed brazeness, his flat works absorb the codes of restoration and the iconography of the still life to better detach themselves from them. The artist strives to nestle finesse in excess. The extreme slowness of the work is put to the service of hyper-objectivity of the representation which laughs at the art world whose absurdities it insidiously reveals. (Text by Fanny Trussard, 2022)
Between 2017-2021 Raphaël-Bachir Osman was co-director of Erratum galerie, an artist-run-space based in Berlin. His work has been shown extensively throughout Europe, including exhibitions at the Kunstraum Riehen in Basel Switerland, Biennale Jeune Création Mulhouse 019, and Novembre à Vitry in Paris. In 2020, he was nominated for the Revelations Emerige Price (Paris) and he has been granted with the research and creation program Création En Cours – Ateliers Médicis. Other exhibitions in Paris include the Art Paris Art fair with Marguerite Milin gallery, La Chapelle XIV gallery, Jeune création at Fiminco Foundation, Valérie Delaunay gallery, Pal Project, and many more. Recently, he was in residency at Le Port des Créateurs (Toulon, France), and is participating in the Biennale of Artpress magazine (monographic exhibition at Musée Fabre, and a group exhibition at M.O.C.O Montpellier, France).
Support: Raphaël-Bachir Osman’s residency is made possible with support from Atelier Mondial Basel (Christoph Merian Stiftung).
