Works of Art
Works of Art
“?” by Mohamed Chabarick 142x200 cm.
The title of this work took inspiration from its shape, which is sinuous, curved and balanced: it consists of one main body and a separate dot, a sort of S-shaped symbol recalling Venice’ s Grand Canal, a proper container for the stories that will be told by the mosaic it enshrines. Said“ stories” come from long ago, from the dawn of time, from the caves where the East and the West probably shared a common past. Soon, however, the two worlds split on the two different sides of the same border, which sometimes is very well-defined and sometimes blurred and vanishing. This is exactly what happened to the history of the those two worlds: sometimes we go, and sometimes they come. Overlapping lines define areas made up of architectural shapes, which seek to represent different ages, telling something about each of them with textures and materials. The story slowly starts to take color, until it gets to where the protagonist is placed. Almost at the center of the composition we find al-Bunduqiyya, which is to say Venice, symbolically represented by St. Mark’ s Basilica, bearing witness to one of the most beautiful periods of dialogue and exchange. Besides goods, there was also an exchange of science and knowledge, Saints and Gods, stories and tales.