Black Moon : Marwan Sahmarani

9 Jan-24 Feb 2014

Overview

In Black Moon, we see a renewed focus on the medium of painting itself, rather than on the subject matter. The smooth, flat surface on his canvases have given way to swathes of thick impasto, the texture of his paintings taking physical form as a tangible being, with abstract patterns and heavy brush strokes revealing the images within them with each step one takes further away from the painting. Large-scale canvases weighing up to two tones each include Dead Man and Skewed, and pay tribute to the ongoing violence in the region, "What's happening in the Middle East at the moment, is, in many ways, rather indescribable and difficult to illustrate in a painting." says Sahmarani.