Michel Saada

Paris born, Michel Saada started his artistic journey when “wanderlust and curiosity” brought him to his “Mount Athos” over 30 years ago: Secluded Laos, haven of peace and tranquility. A successful serial entrepreneur, it is art and creativity that ultimately define Mimi, as friends affectionately call him. Although he refutes the term, the Renaissance Man began his odyssey by transforming rustic coconut shells into ‘aboriginal style’ mosaics and shaping exquisite marquetry with inlaid egg shells and rice seeds.

To his own admission, Mimi has been exposed to mainly contemporary influences; from Soulage’s ‘Black’ action painting to Pollack’s signature drippings and from Richter’s abstract works to Rothko’s expressionism.

Still exploring the infinite creative ways with his own ‘working tools’, he fills the canvas in a novel way by crafting line, colour and pictorial space. Mimi is set to define his own style. Reminiscent of his backpacker days, Mimi still explores abstract painting and every white canvas is an adventure into unknown and mysterious worlds. Resisting the attempt to interpret his own paintings, he is mainly concerned with viewer’s experience and prefers provoking an active relationship between his work and the obs...