Born in 1950 in Sfax, Tunisia, Samir Triki obtained a Diploma of Artistic Teaching from the Institut Technologique d’Art, d’Architecture et d’Urbanisme in Tunis in 1976. The following year, he got a master’s degree in Aesthetics and received his Ph.D. in Aesthetics and Art Sciences both from La Sorbonne University in 1982. Since then and until 2016, he taught plastic arts at the Institut Supérieur des Beaux-Arts in Tunis. The artist is the author of many books about religious architecture in Tunisia, whose he notably studied the functional and aesthetical parts.
Samir Triki’s practice draws on abstract painting built on a geometrical expression or Euclidean geometry that examines the material aspects, manifesting themselves in graphics and visual expressions, such as the principle of symmetry or inversion of the figure and ground. In his recent paintings occur intuitive deviations to fractal content based on the fragmentation or fractus expressed by differences in scale such as enlargement and reduction, similarity and resemblance.
Triki adopts characteristics pertaining to the psychology of the form and organized whole or more specifically gestaltism. His practice draws its influence from the spirit of Islamic art and his research on Arabesque, and knowledge of numerology, Triki’s works are a dive into mysticism and Sufism.
Triki`s is Currently, a member of the department of Arts at the National Foundation for Letters, Sciences, and Arts at Beit al-Hikma in Carthage.
Samir Triki, lives and works in Tunisia.