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Tunisian artist Riadh Abdi was born in 1977 in Nefza. He obtained his masters in Plastic Art in 2000 and the "Diplome des Etudes Approfondies en Sciences et Techniques de l'Art" in 2004. He has been a University Art professor since 2000 in Tunisia and Oman and has painted since he was a student.
Abdi takes a philosophical approach to the human body and its movement, expressing the identity issue. He has worked extensively on this subject with an original approach to then focus on the human silhouette in relation to the human body: a graphic silhouette, supple, smooth, hard, dense, light, sensual, nervous and identifiable. This silhouette will be the focus of his artistic research. In his actual work, the human silhouette is repeated and multiplied to the infinity, it forms a microscopic space. It discovers an organic and cosmic dimension. Abdi says "My entangled silhouettes are weaved together, in a swirling motion and accelerate as if an organic system is suddenly laid bare"
His art work is a visual
hallucination which is moving between figurative and concept. It is contemporary,
unclassified, original, individual, loaded with emotions and questions
and in the same time, embracing the simplicity of black and white.
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