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Rachid Khimoune
Rachid Khimoune is a French sculptor of Algerian descent born on April 7, 1953 in Decazeville, Aveyron.
Biography.
His father came in France in 1946 from El Ksar in Kabylie, Algeria. Between 1970 and 1974, Rachid Khimoune studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Painter at first, he became sculptor in the late 70s and early 80s. Since 1991, he lives with the journalist Ève Ruggiéri.
Work.
Work Exhibitions.
- 1975 : Galerie Sanguine
Tortues-Casques", Parvis du Trocadéro, Paris (France).
- 2011 : "1000 Tortues-Casques", Normandy’s Omaha Beach for the 67th anniversary of D-Day landings.
Bibliography.
- "Rachid K., Futur-composé", texts by Georges Lemoine, Daphné Behm-Williamme, François Maspéro, Bernard Rousseaux, collégiale St André and Galerie Daphné Behm Williamme, 1991.
- "Rachid Khimoune", by Pierre Restany, Michel Archimbaud, François Maspéro, Musée Picasso,