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In the early 70s, MARWAN’s paintings started to focus solely on the human face, using a horizontal format, and painting the human visage as a landscape, in a blur of topographical features. Over the years, they morphed into what he called “heads”, and he continued to paint these until the end. Abstract brushstrokes in earthly tones at first glance, they reveal themselves as multiple melancholic faces, layered one on top of the other, gazing straight at the viewer from the depth of the canvas. Producing sketches, watercolor drawings, etchings or paintings, MARWAN developed his Sisyphean painting language through a meditative, spiritual approach by painting over and over the same face, often on the same canvas.