Between figuration and abstraction, a cosmic painting
If the painting of Omar Bouragba resonates with the poetry of the poet Paul Eluard, during these prolific years, it is indeed because the universe of the painter as that of the poet, their inspiration of a great coherence and of high spirituality, appear to us as obvious.
The Human is always there, he is flush with the surface, under and through the material, the colors and the volutes.
Omar Bouragba has been painting for half a century with calm consistency, far from the conflicts and roughness of life.
It is the Breath that animates him and his recent creations appear as enchanted allegories.
Fire and Water are omnipresent, elements transcended by a set of convolutions and a chromatic scale which belong only to him.
Then emerge sketches of faces, real stardust, gold, white, bluish, black, which bloom in a delicate symphony.
Omar Bouragba speaks directly to our senses. To do this, he managed to develop a grammar, a syntax, a pictorial vocabulary which are specific to it.
He then lets his imagination and his know-how unfold on the canvas, imprints coming straight from Another World.
His paintings, harmonious and fluid, take us to shores of softness and tenderness, detached from the cold and often sad passions of our contemporary daily life.
Laurence Veysseyre
Marrakech, September 3, 2021
