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Rym Karoui earned her Advanced National Diploma in Visual Arts and Plastic Expressionism from the School of Fine-Arts of Marseille, France, in 1993. She then pursued her artistic training in sculpture and painting at the School of Fine Arts both in Paris and Barcelona.
Self-proclaimed « artist-anthropologist », Rym is fascinated by cultural diversity. Greatly innovative and creative, she works mainly with acrylic, often with collage and other mixed media on canvas or on metal for sculptures. Her use of vivid color palettes of intense vibrant tones conveys universes of extravagance, creativity and magic filled with signs, symbols and animated rangy figures such as jockeys or acrobats. Beyond her pictorial wonderlands, reminding us of “art toys”, there is a vital need to maintain alive fantasy within all of us. The strong emotion felt affront of her paintings yet stands out of her sculptures, revealing a three dimensional life force to her enchanted world.
Since 1992, she started her first exhibition in Marseille at the School Art gallery. Then, she participated in several group exhibitions in Tunisia, regularly with Galerie El Marsa since 2005, and abroad such as in Washington DC, France, Austia, Lebanon, Germany, Norway and Lithuania. In addition, Rym exhibited regularly in solo shows from 1993 to 2001 at Galerie ARCIMA in Paris, Green Art Gallery in Dubai, U.A.E. Meanwhile, Rym designed the trophy for the “Maghreb Star Academy” for TV. She also designed unique pieces for the exhibition “ZI Expo 2005” at Emporio design space in Tunis. Her work was showcased at the World Exhibition in Saragossa, Spain, in summer 2008. So far, her work is part of many private and public collections such as the Ministry of Culture in Tunisia and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Jordan. She lives and works in Tunis.
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