REFLECTION CATALOGUE 2012

New Work (2011 - 2012) by

Rashid Al Khalifa The Waterline Gallery Bahrain Financial Harbour Kingdom of Bahrain

“I express my feelings in the colours I use on forms and shapes based on my recollection on the seasons in life that has passed; times of laughter and embrace, mourning and sorrow, success and failure. The spontaneous paint work on the chrome surface, inspired by women veils, laces and ‘mashrabia,’ partly conceals the loci of society or life where we see fractions of ourselves broken, buried, whole, empty, blurred and full - are reminiscent of the paths we traveled to reach where we currently stand.

Once the viewer is face to face with the artwork, it breaks down the barriers; it becomes a journeying encounter like a free-flowing sense of interaction - a glance of the real, a starting point, waiting to be followed through, allowing the viewer to do the completing, the reflection of self.”

RASHID AL KHALIFA, 2012

Fragmented, 2011 90 cm x 90 cm, enamel paint on chrome-plated convex

Going alone, 2012 150 cm x 150 cm, enamel paint on lacquered convex

Different view, 2012 120 cm x 120 cm, enamel paint on chrome-plated convex

Fabric of society, 2011 150 cm x 150 cm, enamel paint on lacquered convex

Red runs through our veins, 2012 90 cm x 90 cm, enamel paint on chrome-plated convex

The dark and bright side of the moon, 2012 90 cm x 90 cm, enamel paint on chrome-plated convex

A streak of red, 2012 90 cm x 90 cm, enamel paint on chrome-plated convex

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