Charbel abou Zeidan
Interdisciplinary abstract Artist, Bridging Architecture, Fashion, and Art

I work across architecture, fashion, and visual art. 

Born in Lebanon and based in Belgium, I believe in the power of disciplines enriching each other as interconnected ways of thinking and making.

My multidisciplinary practice stems from studying the old renaissance masters: artists who were simultaneously architects, sculptors, painters. 

I learned their techniques: imprimatura, the art of layered form, repetitive meditative strokes. 

This shaped my conviction that to be an artist is to master across disciplines. 

I am driven by curiosity and hunger to understand multiple techniques and materials. 

Through this learning, I discovered that mastery reveals essence: the unnecessary falls away.

A principle guides my work: ‘It takes a lot of knowledge to look this simple’. 

I am drawn to wabi-sabi, the Japanese philosophy that finds beauty in imperfection and impermanence. 

My minimal aesthetic emerges from rigorous reduction. 

Through silicone, latex, charcoal, pastel, and paint, and through textiles, cotton and linen, which I stitch and build into relief and three-dimensional form, I create conversations between colour and monochrome, plane and volume, the organic and the graphic. 

My colour work is complex, built methodically from flat surface to sculptural presence.

I highlight what is usually hidden: surged seams, the reverse of canvas, moulding silicone, the marks of making. 

Beauty lives in these imperfections and mistakes, in the traces that reveal authenticity and the unexpected. 

This element of surprise invites viewers to encounter what they did not anticipate, creating appreciation and demanding reconsideration.

Growing up amid war and destruction taught me that chaos and creation are complementary. 

My work embodies this conviction: perfection and imperfection are inseparable. 

My work is restrained and precise; beauty exists in what we have been taught to overlook.