Yassine Mourit is a passionate visual artist who has always admired colours and shapes and focuses on human expressions, on divulging secrets details and exploring stories.
1) Which art movement do you consider most influential on your practice?
It started on the begin from street art, and then it moves to realistic (hyper-realistic) artworks from the late 50, and now it's more conceptual art with a graphic representation
2) Where do you go and when to make your best art?
I work from home at the moment, more productive at night (long nights)
3) How do you describe your 'creative process'?
My arrangements are realistic, to move into a space of small details. Expressions of the faces and animals a look with more than one meaning, From the beginning of the process of transforming my journey into painting usually represent details of a subject an idea and most of the time it reveals more than one.
4) Which artist, living or deceased, is the greatest inspiration to you?
H.R. Giger .... Benjamin Jean Joseph
5) If you weren't an artist, what would you do?
I have been playing bass with many bands for almost 20 years now, so definitely a musician :)
6) What do you listen to for inspiration?
Everything
7) If you could own one artwork, and money was no object, which piece would you acquire?
Visions Of Hell by Polish Painter Zdzislaw Beksinski
8) If your dream museum or collection owner came calling, which would it be?
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
9) What is your key piece of advice for artists embarking on a fine art or creative degree today?
Try to explore your maximum of being an artist, and be yourself.
10) What is your favourite book of all time (fiction or non-fiction)?
"For Bread Alone" Book by Mohamed Choukri
11) If you could hang or place your artwork in one non-traditional art setting, where would that be?
Hotels, streets and prisons
12) What was the biggest lesson your university course or time studying taught you?
Making handmade posters, also photography
13) And finally, if we were to fast forward 10 years, where would we find you?
Owning a cultural place and still making art.
