“Fracture”: A New Exhibition by Visual Artist Tahar Tazerout

“Fracture”, the new exhibition by visual artist Tahar Tazerout, continues until tomorrow, Wednesday. The showcase attempts to reveal the secret tension of glass, a solid, amorphous material, typically transparent and fragile, in a perpetual, complex, and subtle relationship with light.

On display since March 1st at the Aïcha-Haddad Gallery in Algiers, the twenty or so paintings of this “new narration of matter” were born from an inner desire to “unite two paths, two breaths, and two gestures,” the artist explained.

As part of a journey begun three years ago, Tahar Tazerout previously explored chiaroscuro on shattered glass in “Glass Eclosion” (Eclosion de verre) (2023) and pushed the boundaries of a technique “still little mastered in Algeria” in “Glass Foam” (Ecumes de verre) (2025).

Thus, in “Glass Eclosion,” frontality is etched into the light, capturing bluish, whitish, or golden glows that traverse the matter and freeze in a suspended moment. This creates the impression that the glass “breathes” and that each work, conceived with extreme gestural precision, lives and transforms throughout the day.

In “Glass Foam” (Ecumes de verre), the light becomes quieter and more intimate. Rather than being etched, it is “finely deposited on the surface,” like a fragile foam frozen in its flight, allowing suspended dots to compose faces of haunting realism.

In “Fracture,” the theme does not represent a rupture, but rather a line of tension traversing the glass. The visitor's image, absorbed and reflected, penetrates the works, transforming their reflection to become an integral part of the piece, in an alchemy between surface and depth.

“Fracture” imposed itself like a rebellious muse that has just discovered a soul within the matter, one whose torment and madness sought a medium to carry and appease them.

In this new exhibition, Tahar Tazerout has synthesized the progression of a recurring and evolving reflection, having long explored glass by comparing it to a luminous rift.

Accessible every evening from 9:00 PM, “Fracture” intersects two paths that converge within the imagination, tracing the early signs of a luminous journey.