The DéKonstruction series is an evolution of the Abstract Geometrik series. It allows Tarek to continue to explore all the graphic possibilities of geometric art, whether of Native American, Arabic, Pythagorean or post-modern inspiration. He deconstructs geometric compositions and introduces more imposing lettering and shapes into his structures.
Tarek has always been drawn to the work of Malevich, Constructivists, Cubism, and, of course, Mondrian. Most of the works were painted with acrylic and Posca: color plays a major role here.

Abstract DeKonstruction

Kompozit is a series that includes most of the paintings where Tarek combines collages, material, colors, and lettering but also compositions on a wide variety of subjects relating to current events or themes that are close to his heart. Each work tells its own story and it sometimes happens that the artist creates correspondences between certain canvases or between canvases and other series. Finally, it should be noted that the public and collectors appreciate these works because they are unique and do not belong to the artist's flagship series. This is the underground and experimental part of his artistic work.

Kompozit

Mask Geometrik is a series of paintings that explores new ways of representing masks using geometric shapes. The idea of customizing masks or painting them is not recent in Tarek's work since he had already produced a few pieces in 2010. During his stay in Cameroon in 2017, he painted walls in schools at the Ministry of Tourism. He also shared his passion with other Cameroonian painters who participated in the murals. On the spot, he was able to acquire many African masks which were sources of influence for his work. Back in France, he customized some of these and painted a large series of canvases entitled Masque(s) exhibited at the Philippe Gelot gallery (Paris 4th) and at the Kvasnevski gallery (Paris 17th).

Mask geometrik

The idea of customizing masks or painting them is not recent in Tarek's work since he had already produced a few pieces in 2010. During his stay in Cameroon in 2017, he painted walls in schools at the Ministry of Tourism. He also shared his passion with other Cameroonian painters who participated in the murals. On the spot, he was able to acquire many African masks which were sources of influence for his work. Back in France, he customized some of these and painted a large series of canvases entitled Masque(s) exhibited at the Philippe Gelot gallery (Paris 4th) and at the Kvasnevski gallery (Paris 17th).
This theme has been close to his heart for a long time, whether in painting, comics, or even muralism.

Mask art

Tarek explores the world of superheroes evolving most often in the universe of Gotham. This is part of my daily life as a painter and scriptwriter of comic strips: Supernain and Blateman and Bobine are two superhero albums that he scripted... He also painted on this theme in order to broaden and create works taken from his comics. It has been a passion since a young age.

Super hero

The Grendizer series brings together Tarek's works on the iconic character of Japanese animation from the 70s. He started drawing and writing his first stories in elementary school after each episode of Grendizer (UFO Robo Grendizer). He also grew up with Golgoths, Monstrogoths, and Anteraks...

Grendizer

A big Star Wars fan since the age of 7, Tarek wanted to portray certain emblematic characters of this universe with his vision and his way of painting. This series was a great success from the presentation of the first canvas at the Philippe Gelot gallery. In 2014, he had the chance to meet Dave Prowse, the actor who played Darth Vader, at the Montreal Comiccon thanks to Haïfa Adam his artistic agent: Vincent Pompetti and him had offered their comic strip "Le Malouin" with a beautiful dedication. He was very pleasant and Tarek subsequently had a letter correspondence. He was one of his readers! This is one of the reasons that led him to create this Star Wars series in painting.

Star Wars

Tarek's Campbell's Soup 2.0 series explores all the graphic possibilities of American and English Pop art by diverting and updating its themes (Campbell's Soup, dollar, star, Brillo ...) as well as those of pop culture. Campbell's Soup serves as a working basis for this artistic exploration. Tarek also has a variation on this theme called French Pop where he uses icons of French consumerist culture. It is a worldwide success since paintings and drawings from this series have joined collections worldwide!

Pop art 2.0

All of Tarek's artworks that speak of peace: drawing or painting.

Make peace a chance

The Indians never die series associates the graphic universe of Tarek with that of the Amerindians, whether at the level of symbols or portraits.

Indians soul never die

Coming from the graffiti world, Tarek knew and lived the beginnings of the Hip Hop movement in France. From Smurf to graffiti, he has been a witness and an actor in this underground culture. At only 20 years old, he released the book "Paris Tonkar", the first work dedicated to this environment in Europe. He exhibited his first paintings in 1992 during the "Paris Graffiti" exhibition. The Hip Hop series is a way to return in painting and drawing to the years of his youth in the Parisian suburbs where this culture was practiced by children in cellars and places on the fringes of society.

Hip Hop

Vincit Omnia Vanitas is a series that brings together a part of Tarek's works devoted to Vanities, "Skulls" and skulls in modern settings. For ten years, he regularly pasted custom colored skulls in the towns he visited… The collages of Skulls were placed in the street in broad daylight. Each painted object was signed. Before the collage, a photograph of the object was systematically taken in a place with a minimum of staging. Cities where collages were made: France (Agen, Arras, Bourges, Chauny, Gentilly, Ivry-sur-Seine, Laval, Lorient, Lurcy-Levis, Marseille, Merlieux, Montrouge, Moulins, Niederbronn, Pacé, Paris, Puteaux, Rennes, Saint-Malo, Saint-Denis, Saint-Ouen and Valenciennes), Athens, Brussels, Montreal, New York and Rabat.

Skull art

Tarek's Animalz series is essentially devoted to works where the main subject is an animal. The animal universe has always seduced the artist but also the author of comic strips. There are sometimes correspondences with the Mask art and Tribal series.

Animalz

Declination of the Mask art series with totem representations. During his stay in Cameroon in 2017, he painted walls in schools at the Ministry of Tourism. He also shared his passion with other Cameroonian painters who participated in the murals. On the spot, he was able to acquire many African masks which were sources of influence for his work. Back in France, he customized some of these and painted a large series of canvases entitled Masque(s) exhibited at the Philippe Gelot gallery (Paris 4th) and at the Kvasnevski gallery (Paris 17th). This theme has been close to his heart for a long time, whether in painting, comics, or even muralism.

Totemik

From Gotham is a series of paintings and drawings produced following Tarek's first trip to New York where he exhibited for the second time in October 2014. There, he produced live paintings and the idea came to him to recover objects, papers, stickers, and all kinds of items picked up in the street. Back in France, he painted several canvases associating these "little moments of New York" with his imagination. A recurring character returns in several paintings to create correspondences in the works painted in 2014 and 2015. He appeared, from time to time, in some of his recent creations... He developed this series because he often returns to this city.

From Gotham

Tarek explores all the graphic possibilities of American Pop art by diverting and updating his themes as well as those of pop culture. The "Dollar" series explores all the graphic possibilities with the mythical greenback by diverting it and updating the themes of Pop art as well as pop culture. The Warholian universes as well as that of comics serve as a working basis for this exploration. Wall Street is characterized by a 1 dollar bill on which we guess the shadow of Batman. Between Gotham City and New York, between dream and reality, the artist Tarek cannot choose.

Pop art Dollar

After his first exhibition in Athens in 2015, Tarek began to paint a series entitled Tribal in reference to the mythologies that influence our collective unconscious and to the universe of primitive arts. Parietal art has always been important in the artist's imagination. : he chose to decline the figures, symbols, and concepts found in these traditional arts while adding a modern treatment with bright colors.

Tribal

This painting is part of a work on the Olympic games and, more generally, on the sport.
Kompozit is a series that includes most of the paintings where Tarek combines collages, material, colors, and lettering but also compositions on a wide variety of subjects relating to current events or themes that are close to his heart. Each work tells its own story and it sometimes happens that the artist creates correspondences between certain canvases or between canvases and other series. Finally, it should be noted that the public and collectors appreciate these works because they are unique and do not belong to the artist's flagship series. This is the underground and experimental part of his artistic work.

Olympic Games

Abstract Geometrik series allows Tarek to continue to explore all the graphic possibilities of geometric art, whether of Native American, Arabic, Pythagorean or post-modern inspiration. He deconstructs geometric compositions and introduces more imposing lettering and shapes into his structures.
Tarek has always been drawn to the work of Malevich, Constructivists, Cubism, and, of course, Mondrian. Most of the works were painted with acrylic and Posca: color plays a major role here.

Abstract Geometrik

Artworks (paintings and drawings) on Serge Gainsbourg's universe. It was a famous French singer and composer who died in 1991 in Paris.

Tarek Ben Yakhlef