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AMAZINE yassir

[1975, Etterbeek, Belgique]

We know nothing about Yassir Amazine’s life before he joined the workshop of Luc Mondry and Nicole Babilas at La Clairière. In his drawings, created with black, red, and blue ballpoint pens, Amazine stages a true battle, slashing the page with repetitive and violent strokes. Countless lines intertwine, forming works of great density. The lines convey both a sense of release and an overwhelming intensity that feels suffocating. The brutality of the gesture—its fever and its rage—is as frightening as the warlike themes that inhabit each drawing.