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CHILDREN OF THE WORLD | RACHID KHIMOUNE

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  • Artists : RACHID KHIMOUNE 
  • Venue : ARTSAWA | ALQUOZ
  • Preview : 19 March 2009
  • Start Date : 19 March 2009 Time : 10:00 AM
  • End Date : 10 May 2009 Time : 11:00 PM

    • Rachid Khimoune_AKAVAK THE CANADIAN_2008_bronze_205x90x35 cm

    • Rachid Khimoune_AKAVAK THE CANADIAN_2008_digigraphie_enfants du monde_105x70 cm

    • Rachid Khimoune_ALI THE TUNISIAN_2008_bronze_16x11x37 cm

    • Rachid Khimoune_ALI THE TUNISIAN_2008_bronze_250x15x60 cm

    • Rachid Khimoune_ALI THE TUNISIAN_2008_digigraphie_enfants du monde_105x70 cm

    • Rachid Khimoune_ANTONIO THE BRAZILIAN_2008_bronze_200x100x40 cm

    • Rachid Khimoune_ANTONIO THE BRAZILIAN_2008_digigraphie_enfants du monde_105x70 cm

    • Rachid Khimoune_AYAKO THE JAPANESE GIRL_2008_bronze _16x14x34 cm

    • Rachid Khimoune_AYAKO THE JAPANESE GIRL_2008_bronze_235x70x60 cm

    • Rachid Khimoune_DICK THE ENGLISH MAN_2008_bronze_230x100x40 cm

    • Rachid Khimoune_DICK THE ENGLISH MAN_2008_digigraphie_105x70 cm

    • Rachid Khimoune_ENZO THE ITALAIAN_2008_bronze_17x14x37 cm

    • Rachid Khimoune_ENZO THE ITALIAN_2008_bronze_235x120x65 cm

    • Rachid Khimoune_ENZO THE ITALIAN_2008_digigraphie_105x70 cm

    • Rachid Khimoune_EVE THE GERMAN GIRL_2008_bronze_235x65x55 cm

    • Rachid Khimoune_EVE THE GERMAN GIRL_2008_digigraphie_105x70 cm

    • Rachid Khimoune_FELIPE THE MEXICAN_2008_bronze_230x110x60 cm

    • Rachid Khimoune_FELIPE THE MEXICAN_2008_digigraphie_105x70 cm

    • Rachid Khimoune_ISIS THE EGYPTIAN GIRL_2008_bronze_16x11x37 cm

    • Rachid Khimoune_ISIS THE EGYPTIAN GIRL_2008_bronze_230x90x50 cm

    • Rachid Khimoune_ISIS THE EGYPTIAN GIRL_2008_digigraphie_105x70 cm

    • Rachid Khimoune_JEAN THE SWISS_2008_bronze_235x115x50 cm

    • Rachid Khimoune_JEAN-BAPTISTE THE CHILD FROM MONACO_2008_bronze_230x120x35 cm

    • Rachid Khimoune_JEAN-BAPTISTE THE CHILD FROM MONACO_2008_digigraphie_105x70 cm

    • Rachid Khimoune_JEANNE LA POUPEE RUSSE_2008_bronze_16x15x30 cm

    • Rachid Khimoune_JEANNE THE RUSSIAN DOLL_2008_bronze_210x100x70 cm

    • Rachid Khimoune_JEANNE THE RUSSIAN DOLL_2008_digigraphie_105x70 cm

    • Rachid Khimoune_JIM THE NEW YORKER_bronze_2008_250x125x40 cm

    • Rachid Khimoune_KAHINA THE KABYLE GIRL_2008_bronze_215x80x55 cm

    • Rachid Khimoune_KAHINA THE KABYLE GIRL_2008_digigraphie_105x70 cm

    • Rachid Khimoune_MAHATMA THE INDIAN_2008_bronze_210x110x70 cm

    • Rachid Khimoune_MARIE CARMEN THE SPANISH GIRL_2008_bronze_195x150x70 cm

    • Rachid Khimoune_MOHAMED THE MAROCCAN_2008_bronze_190x140x60 cm

    • Rachid Khimoune_MOHAMED THE MOROCCAN_2008_digigraphie_105x70 cm

    • Rachid Khimoune_MU-NAN THE CHINESE GIRL_2008_bronze_240x120x50 cm

    • Rachid Khimoune_MU-NAN THE CHINESE GIRL_2008_digigraphie_105x70 cm

    • Rachid Khimoune_NAOMIE THE AFRICAN_2008_bronze_235x80x35 cm

    • Rachid Khimoune_NAOMIE THE AFRICAN_2008_digigraphie_105x70 cm

    • Rachid Khimoune_RANIA THE ARABIC GIRL_2008_bronze_18x10x33

    • Rachid Khimoune_RANIA THE ARABIC GIRL_2008_bronze_220x90x45

    • Rachid Khimoune_THE PARISIAN KID_2008_bronze_17x14x37 cm

    • Rachid Khimoune_THE PARISIAN KID_2008_bronze_255x105x45 cm

    • Rachid Khimoune_THE PARISIAN KID_2008_digigraphie_105x70 cm

    CHILDREN OF THE WORLD

    Under the joint patronage of His Excellency Mr. Alain Azouaou, Ambassador of France to the UAE and of the Dubai Culture and Art Authority, artsawa showcases an exhibition on a scale rarely seen in Dubai. “Children of the World” is a monumental collection of sculptures by the renowned French artist Rachid Khimoune. 

    The work comprises twenty-one remarkable bronze-cast sculptures depicting twenty-one children from all over the world, twenty-one being a metaphor for the 21st century in which the works were created.  Rachid Khimoune’s artistic approach is rich, unique, and contemporary and appeals to an international audience: the artist has traveled the world searching for the original roots of his subjects and their cities.

    This is a truly inspirational and universal project and is particularly relevant to the youthful city of Dubai, UAE, where it will stand as a symbol of the complex relationship between art, history and the city’s diverse urban communities. The UAE, with its vibrant and multicultural human landscape, is the ideal and natural host for this great work of art.

    The scope of this exhibition befits the nature of Rachid Khimoune’s art: over eight years of creation, travel and immersion in the urban components of twenty-one international cities have resulted in an extraordinary body of work. “Children of the World” explores and uncovers the diversity of the world’s people and is as inimitable as the different cultures it portrays.

    Each piece is layered with the stories of cities and their people, and these became embedded in each cast as a visual expression of a historical and human archive. He has captured “the skins of the streets”, molded their paving stones, drain covers and broken bitumen to produce works of art quite unlike any other.

    The urban theme is the central focus and the inspiration of his work. Khimoune explains, “Although all streets seem to be the same, sewer plants and grids around trees are as different from one city to another as tattoos on skin. These are the symbols that represent identity and document the history or memory of the city.”

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