Abdelaziz Zerrou is a multidisciplinary artist born in Casablanca in 1982. He graduated from the National Institute of Fine Arts in Tétouan. He uses innovative techniques to explore media such as video, installation and drawing. He adopts a contemporary artistic approach: using a variety of materials in his creation protocol while having a passion for the graphic register.
This interest is based on the artist’s admiration of universal symbolic figures which are characterized by greater readability and visibility. In his works, the artists aims for visual efficiency. His interests drove him, while continuing his research in visual arts, to become founder and artistic designer of a graphic design studio “group3”.
The artist’s career took a turning point when he participated in the Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean (BJCEM) in Bari, Italy. This participation allowed him to confirm but also refine his artistic resolutely contemporary mostly in the graphic register, with a preference for universal symbolic figures: “memory 16″ or “drawing lesson” presented at the exhibition “body and figures of the body”, the art space of the Societé Générale in Casablanca, and “the war is not a game”, a mural in situ, presented at the Triennial in Luanda, Angola. The artwork “love revolution” was showed at the Galleria Continua Paris and at the New Art Exchange Museum of Nottingham, UK, and also “eurabia” made in Netherland.From 2009 he was in more art residences as: Cité Internationales des Arts in Paris, Dar Al-Ma’mûn Art Residency in Marrakesh, Studio Rondo Art Residency in Graz, Austria, DordtYart Art Residency in Dordrecht, Netherland and Artellewa in Cairo. Zerrou is also co-creator of a group: Young African Artists (jaa), which supports artistic creativity in Africa. The artist currently lives and works between Switzerland and Morocco.
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