Discover the contemporary work of Amzar

I was born and based in Paris in 1989, drawing has always been my first language, an echo of my childhood. My first lines took shape in academic drawing, portraits sketched in pencil.

In 2012, my world burst into color: Posca and acrylic danced on canvases and recovered cardboard, giving birth to works imbued with the raw essence of art. Then, like an insatiable explorer, I surveyed other horizons: collage, inks on Asian paper, monotypes, spray cans... A decade of creation where each technique became a chapter in a constantly evolving story.

My path also led me to major figures in art: photographers, sculptors, painters. Alongside Serge Mendjisky, Mauro Corda, Sara Renaud, Philippe Bonan, Blase, Tanc and L'atlas, I touched the soul of their works, contributing sometimes discreetly, sometimes fully to their brilliance. I have even had the honor of breathing new life into old frames, marrying history and the contemporary.

Paris, with its lights and its effervescence, has welcomed my creations in several exhibitions. One of them, at the Conservatoire Citroën, offered me a unique challenge: transforming a car into a living canvas. This singular work rests today between a creation signed Dolce & Gabbana and a legendary compression of César, a lasting testimony of my artistic imprint.

Each line, each texture, each color tells a quest: that of capturing the moment, of transcending the everyday, of leaving a trace in the ephemeral.

The alchemy of the senses

Everything begins with an impulse, a gesture.
A pencil stroke, a touch of watercolor, the fluidity of a painting, or the shine of a felt-tip pen. Sometimes, it is a fragment of the world, a forgotten texture, a hidden beauty that my hands want to sublimate.

Then comes the gaze, intimate and meticulous.
Through the lens, I dive into the infinity of details, capturing the soul of the moment in macro shots. Unexpected angles reveal unsuspected depths, giving birth to interior landscapes where light dances on matter.

Finally, the magic happens in the digital workshop.
The chosen image becomes a canvas to be reinvented, a crossroads where the visual arts mingle with photography and new technologies. Each retouch is a breath of fresh air, each transformation a rebirth, until a unique work emerges, where the organic and the digital intertwine in a visual symphony.

My art is a dialogue, a quest for harmony between instinct and innovation, the ancestral gesture and the modern tool.

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In 2024, I wanted to preserve the fragile breaths of beginnings, these sketches and unfinished works, these suspended moments when something invisible is born before it even takes shape. Sometimes, I mixed several visuals to create new compositions, as if each piece carried a fragment of a future still unknown. If I had to break down this process, it would be done in three movements, three stages, like a discreet dance.

 

The first is that of the sketch, this fragile moment when the work seems already finished, but when it is in reality still floating, between shadow and light. It is a breath that allows me to let time sculpt, slowly, an art that I do not immediately reach, an art that escapes me and reveals itself little by little, over the days. It is never quite there, but already there, in a state of becoming. It is a form of active patience, a suspended gesture.

 

Then comes the second step, that of capture. I photograph a fraction, a frozen sketch, a small piece of what is still incomplete. It is a frozen moment, like a reflection of what could be, but is not yet quite there. An image that preserves, but does not fix.

 

Finally, the third step, the rarest, the most precious, the one that completes this process that I call "Amzar Lab". There, everything is transformed. It is an almost alchemical moment, a leap into the unknown. There are no rules, no clear path. The work is transformed, it is distilled in a whirlwind of influences and controlled coincidences. It is a random alchemy, a fusion of disparate elements that gives birth to something totally new, totally unique. And, often, I no longer recognize anything of the origin of the work, or even the first sketches. What the "Amzar Lab" stage reveals surpasses everything, like a kind of furtive, inexplicable magic. This is that art becomes other, that it blossoms in a pure, rare brilliance, a shooting star in the darkness of the process.

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For my last exhibition, in January 2025, I sought to reveal the invisible, to awaken the soul through unexplored paths. I chose a medium that we believe to be familiar - frames and their glass - but by transforming them into a mirror of the unconscious. The painting flourishes there in the wild form of aerosols, bursts of color, reflections of chrome and silver that blend, overlap, let themselves dance together in a fleeting harmony.

Sometimes, my fingers themselves have become the guides of this creative trance, skimming the surface to engrave spontaneous thoughts, stripping the material down to what emerges the unexpected, like a gentle revelation, a well-kept secret.

It happens to me, depending on the moment, to turn the work over, to break the order, to look for another angle, another light. By this gesture, I try to create the shift necessary for the emergence of meaning, and, in a final play of perspectives, to sublimate the whole.

The hanging, almost ritual, was a meticulous quest: each work had to breathe without stifling its neighbor, each placement an echo that was neither silence nor cacophony, but a secret melody that sublimates the whole in a fragile and perfect balance.