ROYAL ARTS VISIONS; MOHAMED NEFFATI

Lyon is a mixed cultural city with various and numerous influences. And what a charming place !
Mohammed Neffati is both, French and Tunisian at once but more than anything else he is a Lyon's child.
Asking him about how would he discovered his talent for painting he replayed immediately : Painting is in me. My Art is actually ME.

And yes, seeing his canvas with that Tornado furious colours, we are middle of his own artistic world, beautifully crazy, speedy, nonchalantly French and so much charming in the flourished Tunisian style.
I love Neffati ‘s Artworks for the stylish vivacity and brilliance. Paintings with a very personal touch giving voice to a modern vision about art and colours.
Tunisian are very proud people. French are very much gifted with the savoir faire et savoir vivre. Middle of this amazing mélange of cultures and customs, here came to life the fabulous art’s world of Mohamed Neffati, starting a long journey of self definition and self discovery, traveling to the Emirati desert, Ras Al Khaimah, passionately passing the European countries ready to capture the natural treasure of different heritages, societies, folklores and traditions.

Mohamed Neffati is a contemporary artist, his creations are definitely modern remind us about the speedy, accelerated new waves of the 21.st. Century.
The artist has established his own Art Society, Neffati Society in Lyon, with the target not only to promote his own art but as first and most important to express his own artistic attitude towards the cultural and social life style and the cross cultural cooperation and exchange of ideas, visions and influences.
Mohamed Neffati is a well-known artist with a very large palette of subjects, starting with the re- transformation of famous classical artworks, continuing with very impressive portraits of actual personalities of our world.

Between his artworks we can admire a marvelous portrait of the late Karl Lagerfeld the absolute King of Fashion and one of the most interesting, unusual and challenging portrait representing the Ruler of Ras Al Khaimah, Sheikh Saud Bin Saqr Al Qassimi.
Mohamed Neffati 's Art bring Lyon to the world and the world to Lyon.
I’m not exaggerating. Art is today more than ever the only and most important common bridge between people, and thanks to the performances of online and internet communications we can discover new artists, new cultural language to bring us together regardless nationality, religion or geographical locations.
Mohamed Neffati declares : My Art is Me. Yes, and a little piece of his beautiful creations is for sure in our eyes and souls too. At the end, culture will always unite people.

Monica Mergiu