SB13 in Sharjah
10. März - 12. Juni 2017. Kuratorin: Christine Tohmé. Ausstellung, Programme, Projekte in Sharjah mit Arbeiten von 73 Teilnehmern.
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Untitled 12, 2017
Concrete, brass, beeswax, fibre mesh, Styrofoam on wood board
200 x 1000 cm
Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation
Venue: Al Hamriyah Studios
Rechmaoui’s work expands on his interest in cartography by foregrounding the sentient capacity of spatial information. Critical of the impoverished representations of space that are often produced by two-dimensional surveying methods, he accounts for discrepancies between perception and empirical data by considering the disposition of the geography as well as that of the materials used to articulate its diverse topographies.
In Rechmaoui’s 12-panel work, pours of concrete and beeswax meet at a line of copper suggestive of a running shoreline. Here, the malleable metal known for its high thermal conductivity functions as a threshold marking the volatile relationship between land and sea. Not simply an aesthetic exercise, Rechmaoui’s work features expanses of manmade and natural compounds, the result of carefully calculated proportions of weight and dimension derived from exacting data on the coastal districts, the point of departure for his compositions. With all elements taken together, Rechmaoui’s work communicates scientific, expressive and conceptual information about the environment through qualitative and quantitative analysis grounded in methodological precision.
(From the SB13 Guidebook)
See also his work at
Gallery 5, Art Spaces in Al Mureijah
* 1964 Beirut, Lebanon; lives there.
© Photo: Haupt & Binder
10. März - 12. Juni 2017. Kuratorin: Christine Tohmé. Ausstellung, Programme, Projekte in Sharjah mit Arbeiten von 73 Teilnehmern.