Dino Roozi

 

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Dino Roozi was born in Paris in 1943. Very early on, his passion for art revealed itself as a true vocation. From 1960 to 1966, he attended the Beaux-Arts, the French Institute of Photography… and the tables of La Coupole, the legendary meeting place for the hedonist artists of the time. A declared epicurean, endlessly curious and a lover of both form and flavor, he embraced the creative effervescence of the 1960s with insatiable appetite. In 1967, he was awarded the 2nd Prize of the Beaux-Arts of Nevers.

Between the late 1960s and early 1970s, he founded the Galerie du Bras de Fer, created the “Mouvement des 3 A,” and taught ceramics and modeling in Montpellier. For nearly twenty years, he remained a member of the Ateliers d’Art de France, faithful to an artisanal and sensory approach to art. In 1987, he received the 2nd Prize for Creation in Paris, followed by the Jury Prize in Aix-en-Provence in 1993.

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It was the discovery of Nicolas de Staël — unclassifiable and blazing — that marked a turning point. Dino Roozi then chose painting as his main medium. Since then, his canvases have become conduits for raw, intuitive, and singular emotion.

Having long settled in the South of France, he continues his artistic journey with unaltered energy. No retirement, few pauses, but many poses: Roozi paints and repaints the world. Oil, acrylic, pigments, gold leaf, knife, brush… everything becomes a pretext for creation. He alternates between chromatic bursts and subtle monochromes, building a plural, living, and free body of work.

His paintings also tell his own story — an intimate fresco, sometimes autobiographical, often fictional, like a photo album reinvented as a visual novel. For Dino Roozi has tried almost everything: potter, ceramist, gallerist, radio host, restaurateur… A true Prévert-style inventory punctuated by new beginnings. “As soon as I get bored, I need to change,” he confides. Movement as his engine, life as his raw material.

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Also exploring the possibilities of digital art, he created the “Bab’Art” — his personal and intuitive interpretation of Pop Art. From a photograph, he composes portraits by juxtaposing visual elements that reflect the world of his subjects. But above all, the sea remains his great theme. “Free man, you will always cherish the sea,” wrote Baudelaire — a phrase that fits him like a signature. A space of mystery, freedom, turmoil, and serenity, the sea becomes in his work a metaphor for life — and the symbolic core of his painting.

In both solo and group exhibitions, Dino Roozi unfolds a generous body of work, blending seascapes, female portraits, evocations of historical events, and flashes of personal inspiration. He paints movement, memory, struggle, and suspended moments — with the tireless freedom that defines him.