{"id":2535,"date":"2015-03-31T10:37:14","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T10:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.galerieloft.com\/artist\/yazid-oulab-2-2\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T10:25:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T10:25:58","slug":"yazid-oulab-2","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/preprod.galerieloft.com\/en\/artists\/yazid-oulab-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Yazid Oulab"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yazid Oulab<\/strong> was born in 1958 near Constantine in Algeria. Son of a mechanic and a French teacher, he is also the nephew of the writer Kateb Yacine.<\/p>\n

As a teenager, he often went to his uncle’s, where he discovered the effervescence and intellectual dynamism of artistic circles. At the age of 22, he decided to study art and did everything possible to be accepted at the School of Fine Arts in Algiers. He spent nearly 6 years there before leaving for Marseille in 1988 to join the Lumigny School of Art. He also worked on construction sites to pay for his studies, particularly in masonry, where he acquired gestures and techniques that were invaluable to his artistic practice.<\/p>\n

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In 2008, he participated in the exhibition Les Traces du Sacr\u00e9 at the National Museum of Modern Art, Centre Pompidou and was a resident artist at the Calder studio from February to July 2009. He was chosen this year to inaugurate the new building of the FRAC PACA on the occasion of Marseille European Capital of Culture 2013.<\/p>\n

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A man with a thousand facets and an ancestral soul, Yazid Oulab is an artist who seems nourished by centuries of the most diverse and richest civilizations. He presents himself as an interpreter and a messenger, capable of analyzing and transcribing through simplified objects millennia of cultural, social and spiritual histories.<\/p>\n

An indisputable craftsman in love with gesture, a fascinated and fascinating poet for whom the gaze gives birth to meaning, a tireless and potentially omniscient witness, Yazid Oulab embodies the figure of the accomplished artist. That of a man who, far from the excesses specific to our current societies, would be ready to give art its new letters of nobility.<\/p>\n

His works, objects, installations, sculptures, or videos are all tools of expression and communication that push us to consider the cultural plurality of our time while measuring the historical significance of everything.<\/p>\n

As for him, much more than a visual artist, he is a true “storyteller”. Guide and philosopher, he makes us discover, or rediscover, the origins of writing, numbers, spirituality, religions, or Nations. Between legends and stories to build Yazid Oulab is a frontier being who, like his favorite nails, strives to create links.<\/p>\n

Son of a worker-mechanic-farmer father and an intellectual mother,a\u00a0 French teacher, he represents, not only in his works but also in his life, the perfect balance between the work of the hand and the mind. A manual as well as a spiritual creator, he corrects the unfair dichotomy that would aim to separate these two complementary dimensions of design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A thousand-facets artist with an ancestral soul Yazid Oulab seems to be nourished by centuries of civilizations. He is an interpreter and a messenger capable of analyzing and translating into simplified objects millennia of cultural, social and spiritual history. Son of a worker-mechanic-farmer father and a French teacher mother, Yazid Oulab is a real \u201cstoryteller. He is the accomplished artist, a man who, far from the excesses of today\u2019s society, would always be ready to sacrifice his newly gained fame to art. He is a craftsman who is in love with the gesture, a fascinated and fascinating poet for whom the gaze generates meaning, a tireless witness and a potentially omniscient one. His works \u2013 objects, installations, sculptures and videos \u2013 represent tools of expression and communication that encourage us to consider the plurality of our times and measure the historical influence of all things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":882,"template":"","artist_cat":[21],"class_list":["post-2535","artist","type-artist","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","artist_cat-sculptor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preprod.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist\/2535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preprod.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preprod.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artist"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preprod.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preprod.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preprod.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist_cat?post=2535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}