Boutros Romehein was born in Syria, in Kraya. From a very young age his artistic vocation was evident. After his classical studies he dedicated himself completely to sculpture, creating works in wood and stone which achieved immediate success, both in Syria and in Europe. After several years of artistic research throughout Europe, in 1983 he settled in Italy, in Carrara, where he graduated in Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts and where he founded his sculpture workshop and studio, Arco Arte, in which he transmits his passion for art and sculpture through sculptural technique courses.
The “Impalpable realities” exhibition, which will be held from 28 June to 28 July 2024 in the spaces of the Ad Astra Arte Association, in Piazza delle Erbe 1, Carrara, is configured as a glimpse into Romhein’s artistic thought, through the exhibition of various marble works, among which the figures of angels stand out, which seem to hover, at the same time light and vigorous, from the polished marble. The angel is an image to which the artist is very attached, purged from the most common and traditional conception associated with this entity. It, in Romhein’s personal artistic vision, represents the concretization of spirituality in the broadest sense of the term, that is, the human search for the transcendent meaning of being, the most intimate and profound thoughts on life itself. The angel transforms into a metaphor of introspection, strength, beauty, yearning for freedom, it is the material continuation of the artist’s interiority which flows naturally in the sculpted marble, in the sinuous shapes, in the angels’ wings and in the linear faces, at at the same time conversing with the soul of the opera’s spectators. Sculpture thus appears as a powerful means of dialogue between men, which speaks a universal language, becoming a sharing of the deepest and noblest aspirations of all humanity.
