I just noticed that this '' Art '' I am involved, which collects
different experiences as a shamanic journey, or in relation to education
in the nature of mind, and let the process flow as it is, this '' Art
'' is not here to pretend to invent a new mode of expression, but it is
just there to take care of the raw and lively atmosphere and makes
visual of a reality beyond the existence and concepts ... I am happy
when someone feels caught by the generosity of the work that is
unconcerned by the constraints of wanting to be understood or be loved ,
that is not pretending to hold a progress of mode of communication ...
and be open enough to see something inspiring to the value of clarity,
beyond all definitions, representations or other needs to know in order
to see. .. Thank you for your appreciation ... Having a good time while
knowing nothing, and continue to share honesty in being as i am, nothing
to accept or to reject, simply animated by the constant flow of what
goes and through myself, shiny with the brightness of the atmosphere of
perfect intelligence always released ... .. and that can not be played
because it is itself who plays !! '' 21/09/16
Works is always related to the meetings, the place, time and circumstance, The impermanence of the fabric, and the brightness of essence,
BIOGRAPHY
Christophe was born in Paris in 1971.
In 1996, he joined a collective workshop in Lyon, attended by about twenty artists, all self-taught and it is there that he will meet the sculptor Robert Thouret, the young painter Joseph Camara and the chess player John Sammut.
In 1998, Christophe met the Bosnian painter Mirsad Hadzikaric in the south-east of France, marking a turning point in his accidental approach to painting. They worked together in a movement that Mirsad had created, and called "SCARECROW" and, together with other painters, including David Granata, they wrote a manifesto titled "Beauty without elegance". Many exhibitions will speak about this movement, in Paris, in the South East of France, and also in Sarajevo, during the Art Festival of 2002. It was a real School of Art, far from the academic schools, with a a manifesto expressing at the same time principles of expression such as aeration, agitated seizure, non-anecdotal, and also a manifesto pronouncing a strong commitment in the face of a social climate where Art died, contaminated by the commercialism of a dehumanized system and the hegemony of decoration and conceptual modes of thought. In 2002, the movement will be brought to justice with the case of the censored gallery in Saint Tropez, and will be released by the court of Justice of Draguignan.
After these five years in the Scarecrow movement, Christophe wanted to follow a more personal path, and he went back to 0, pushed to escape from any influence ...
In 2006, the merchant Charles Zalber discovers it and decides to expose it to the Grand Palais, in the middle of his collection of painters like Basquiat, Tapiès, and Picasso and Cocteau's drawings. It will be exhibited with the Galerie Lucie & Silegman during exhibitions in Strasbourg in 2007. The death of Charles Zalber, three years later, will put a therm to this Parisian adventure.
He continued to travel between Asia and the Orient and during a period of hermit in the foothills of the Pyrenees, Christophe began to integrate sculpture into his painting; shapes created with rags, pieces of wood, bits of string or other materials found and amassed during various pilgrimages, including the long march to Santiago de Compostela in 2005 and 2011.
Essentially, this "Art" is his daily practice ... a devotion and commitment that surpasses the concepts of failure and success and that share for real, without propaganda or personal interest.
Where a world is outshined, a humanity is rising.
Dar Cherifa welcomes two artists for an art residency here in Marrakech, presenting an exhibition though out the month of April, opening presentation Wed 5th April 2017
Sophie Marie and Christophe Souques are international artists enthusiastic about living here in the heart of the Medina where Art is revealed as the living example of unification of different cultures and traditions - '' the meeting of rivers''.
An ideal context for co -creation of transformative, inspiring and empowering works.
The ''contemporary indigenous'' work of Christophe Souques and the ''new precious symbolic'' work of Sophie Marie, together offer windows that ask to be opened, unifiying an ancient and modern.
A fortunate meeting with Mr Abdellatif, director of the Riad, literary café, Dar Cherifa, gave rise to this project celebrating shared values of artistic creativity supporting empowerment through education.
More than an art exhibition, this is also the opportunity to support a project of great value.
Whilst assisting with an educational exchange trip to Morocco, the artists Sophie Marie and Christophe Souques were deeply moved by the work of "Education for all" choosing to donate 20% of the sale of any of the art to the association.
'' Education for All '' is a Moroccan association providing support and access to education for girls from rural communities in the Atlas mountains, providing boarding houses in Asni, Dar Tinmel and Talat N Yacoub.
Education of every girl is also the education of new generation.
Http://www.efamorocco.org/index-en.htm .
April 5 , 2017 Dar cherifa present :
'' An unexpected gift '' << The World is filled with passages, passages filled with beings, passengers that pass, beings filled with worlds.Worlds where spirits frequent voids that reveal spirits. Honored to be living in the heart of the Medina, to listen to the book of instruction that is life and its code; free and accessible visions, creating images to be read as phenomena, inseparable from the clear nature of mind. An unexpected gift. >>