Trees Exhibition at Mark Hachem Gallery

The Mark Hachem Gallery is pleased to present “Trees “, the contemporary artworks’ of Lebanese artist Michel Harmouch. The exhibition covers the aesthetic proposal of trees in the artists’ homeland, Lebanon. The featured themes range between the artists’ natural environment his personal surrounding’s and the everyday objects that bring back the memories of yesterday.

For millennia the tree has been a symbol of life. Celebrated by most ancient civilizations, the tree has stood for the center of the cosmos and the origin of creation. Represented throughout art and literature, trees feature in the earliest photographs from the 1840s as well as in contemporary works today. Harmouch’s painting’s reveal various artistic responses to the perennial subject. Through paintings of forests and nature, the images explore the tree in its many connotations—as an evocative emblem, and vital evidence of the natural world in which we live.