MARWAN

Producing sketches, watercolor drawings, etchings or paintings, MARWAN developed his Sisyphean painterly language through a meditative, spiritual approach by painting over and over the same face, often on the same surface. The works on view are watercolors from the 60s to the 80s, that follow the shift in his representation of the human figure. Moving from a full body representation over time, he starts to focus solely on the human face in the early 70s, painting the human visage as a landscape. Over the years, they morphed into what he called “heads”. Abstract brushstrokes in earthly tones at first glance, they reveal themselves as multiple melancholic faces, layered one on top of the other.