Born in 1954 in Fez, Mohamed Krich is a laureate of the School of Applied Arts of Casablanca. He was a teacher and then a plastic arts inspector from 1976 to 2005. His first solo exhibition dates back to 1976.
He lives and works in Fez.
Krich began with abstract paintings before turning to a figuration he calls "realistic". His purely figurative work, oscillating between realism and impressionism, is characterized by an overflowing and nervous touch.
Krich has no trouble acknowledging his debt to the masters of the past. It is in the Flemish painters that he acquired this knowledge of pigments and binders that allows him to make mediums and rich and particularly flexible mixtures resulting from a creamy paste favoring the development of effects and subtle rendering .
To make his paintings, Krich uses old black-and-white photographs to give color and sound thanks to visions recorded in his memory. The scenes and Moroccan landscapes (alleys, stalls, gates, terraces, old doors) are the preference and the predilection of the painter. They are treated with a light and fluid paste in very diverse chromatic ranges, through which the artist transcribes the colorful moods and sentimental impressions of his characters and their environment.
Traditional objects, drawn from Moroccan craftsmanship, also hold a special place in the artist's paintings. The effects of the different multicolored shimmers produced by the light used on bronze and silver objects create a distinctive atmosphere.
The rendering of the contrasts of light and the effects of light / dark which makes it particularize the style of this painter inserts the plastic image resuscitated by the eye and the hand of the artist a character of trompe-oeil.