Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Simon Richard Halimi is a seasoned expert of Griostism, "the African art of storytelling" which he l...
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Simon Richard Halimi is a seasoned expert of Griostism, "the African art of storytelling" which he likes to define and adapt to Westerners as follows:
"GRIOTISM takes its source in life. (Good, Generosity, Love ... and the Opposite), the "GRIOT" refuses that a painted work be perceived in 2 mere passive and simplistic dimensions, like for written, visual, auditive work ... "Griotic" painting stand to count four: width, height, content (its soul) and story telling about life.The griot shouts out with his "work" the "multi-shallow faces" (Faces in French) and intimate "buttocks" (Fesses in French) of our lives.
Simon Richard HALIMI was born in Tunis on February 2, 1943.
From 1968 to 1974, every day after his work, he acts as a cultural animator and art critic on a voluntary basis. He animates several groups of painters gathered in many houses of youth and culture. Currently member of the French Artists, Independent Artists, Academy of Fine Arts of Saint Louis (Academician Associate).
He will leave his homeland 20 years later for France where he still resides.
In 1974 he moved to Ivory Coast with frequent trips to Central and West Africa. This has forced him to maintain contact with his relatives and painting, to multip...
Simon is a professional Civil Engineer by education in France and thorough African field expertise. He has extensively contributed to key infrastructure projects development in West Africa, bringing his planning, analytic, management, advisory and very often out of-the-box creativity and artistic know-how to governments and regions while personally investing himself into forging local Technics and training hundreds of young African engineers to expertise and autonomy in Civil Engineering.
*For many years, invitation and regular attendance*:
- Salon des Artistes Français
- Salon d'Automne
- Salon des Artistes Indépendants
- Salon d'Hiver
- Salon Populiste (Musée d'Art Moderne)
- Salon Interministériel (Musée de la Monnaie)
- Salon International de Lutèce
- Salon international d'Art Contemporain (I.A.C.)
- Europe-Art
- Salons d'Art Singulier
- Art Contemporain 2000
- Salon Violet, prestige de l'Art Contemporain
- RAMP-ART à Avignon
- Ramping up exhibitions in Germany, Austria, USA, UK, Italy, Belgium, Spain, Africa, and China