Algérie Presse Service (APS) - Feb. 13, 2013
The Algerian visual artist Driss Ouadahi is exhibiting 17 new pieces at the Hosfelt contemporary art gallery in San Francisco, exhibit organizers said. The show will be open until March 23.
Titled "Trans-Location", the exhibit was first started in 2012 and comes as multiple abstract art panels of oil paintings on canvas.

The show features several pieces, including "Grand Ensemble 1", "Breakthrough", "Enlightened Night", "Draft Landscape", "On the Other Side", "Reflection", and "Standing on the Green", among others.
Ouadahi, who also trained as an architect, "confronts the visitor's critical eye with the urban gigantism of the world's major economic cities characterized by skyscrapers and big human settlements, giving free rein to all sorts of sociopolitical interpretations of contemporary architecture," the show's brochure reads.

That same critical eye was also suggested by the artist in an earlier exhibit, where he showed the real side of the suburbs of Algiers and Paris and their crowded shantytowns teeming with immigrants.
A resident of Düsseldorf, Germany, Ouadahi has shown his work on three other occasions at different Hosfelt galleries, including the one in New York in 2010.

Driss Ouadahi has also shown his work as featured artist or as part of a collective in various exhibits held in Algeria, Morocco, Germany, the U.S., and France where he was awarded the Istres (Marseille) Contemporary Arts Center prize in 2003.

Founded in 1996 in San Francisco, the Hosfelt Gallery shows art work by contemporary artists from all over the world.