He leads us to recognize ready-made technology, that of the surrounding, which is always full of surprises. Painting, for this painter, then, does not lie in what we know, remember, or recall of the object, but in the object itself, after devouring it fictitiously. Mohammad AI-Shammarey is unique in his work, which places him close to Dadaism at the turn of the 20th century. A realist in his collection of familiar objects and raw materials taken from the less valuable elements in the daily surrounding, this brings him close to the realists of the sixties. But his proximity to this school does not amount to imitation. He has his own style that is different from it. Unlike followers of this school which represents reality as it is, in raw form, and with the introduction of the destructive element of contemporary civilization, he proposes to us rediscovering the paths of reality, which AI-Shammarey subjects to interpretation and which he reviews in his own style, and loads it with an emotional content that is deliberately absent in the art of the neo-realists. Hence he realizes private encounters where the viewer, who creates his Private relationship with his works, may contribute through his look and interpretation of the work.
                                                                                                         Marie Martinez

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