Marwan Rechmaoui – Chasing the Sun
MARWAN RECHMAOUI
Chasing the Sun
6 Feb – 26 April
Sfeir-Semler Gallery Hamburg
hamburg
mr hh 25 pt II
Reviving these pastimes, Rechmaoui presents here a kite, a slingshot, a wooden cart, or a sandbox with a throwing knife. The innocuous feel of these playful installations is reinforced by poetic representations of pine trees, cotton candy, ice cream sticks, sheep, stars, moons, suns or a rainbow, made with molten beeswax mixed with pigments, and embedded in concrete. These bucolic works act with a very direct expression, using intense primary colours and clear simple shapes. Ignoring perspective, they embrace an aesthetic of emotional immediacy—an unfiltered, instinctive rendering of what is perceived, rather than reality itself, much like children’s drawings.
