Khalid Ben Slimane

Tunisia, b.1960

Painter and ceramist, Khalid Ben Slimane was initially trained at Institut Technologique d’Architecture d’Art et d’Urbanisme, in Tunis, graduating in 1976.  Between 1976 and 1977 he attended Escuella MASSANA in Barcelona and in 1982/1983 he followed a course at Idemitsu Museum of Art in Tokyo. In Ben Slimane’s abstract monochrome calligraphic works, he mixes Arabic letters and writings with simple scribbled signs that develop into inexplicable visual compositions.