Oscillation

Saturday, 23.07.16, 20:00

Saturday, 21.01.17

Curator:

Revital Silverman Grun

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Oscillation

This exhibition is concerned with oscillation between worlds, between various opposing poles – earth and sky, the physical and the spiritual, the real and the imaginary – as an expression of the meta-modern approach. The exhibition explores the ways in which the viewer experiences the work in conditions of movement, instability, doubt, perpetual change and drift.

Meta-modernism, which emerged after postmodernism and in response to it, recognizes oscillation as the world's natural order. "Meta-" is a prefix denoting transition. Plato used the word metaxis to describe a situation that is in-between – a characteristic of the human condition that is always subject to a network of opposites: eternal and transient, freedom and destiny, idea and matter. This transitional space is embodied in the classic myth of the Corinthian maid, who outlined her lover's shadow on the wall before he set out for a journey to far-off lands. She does not try to prevent him from leaving, nor does she attempt to join him. She creates a new, transitional space.

In the work of Noa Raz-Melamed, the viewer's gaze shifts between a table set with a mechanism for projecting slides, and the hypnotic shadows on the walls which appear and disappear. These are the hand movements of those whom she defines as her three fathers: her biological father, her father-in-law, and the painter Moshe Kupferman.

The figures in the group sculpture by Shira Zelwer create wall shadows in the form of birds, as she captures a sculptural moment in which static materiality turns into motion. A sculpture depicting a boy holding a balloon expresses tension between clinging and letting go and symbolizes dreaming, drifting, and freedom.

Liora Kanterewicz presents a sculptural object made of a wooden structure covered with hundreds of red gift ribbons. The work's Hebrew title, Flying Saucer, refers both to its Frisbee-like shape and to the possibility that the object is a U.F.O..

Philip Rantzer's kinetic sculpture hangs from the ceiling and is perpetually in motion, its lines ever-changing as if in an endless drawing. Its title, Zorro the Painter, evokes a superhero aspiring to save the world through art.

Perpetual, restless, and amusing motion characterizes the video work by Giyora Bergel. The artificial and the natural, the geometric and the amorphous, the abstract and the concrete – here, everything is mixed up.

The landscape drawing by Talia Keinan, onto which a photograph of a kite made of newsprint is projected, combines images from photographs and from memory and creates a hybrid space that shifts between the real and the imaginary. The viewer's involvement is achieved by the familiar-looking landscape and the frenetic movement of the kite, which arouses wonder with its free flight.

David Isaacs's figure drawings, made using iron wire, begin from a condition of oblivion. The figures, revealed as the work progresses, express the opposition between man's ties binding him to the ground, and the power of free thought.

Michal Bachi's works present figures in dizzying motion, which simultaneously offers pleasure and danger, intention and loss of control. The figure's movement retains the memory of the preceding figure through doubling or echoes, appearing in the layers of the painting and marking traces of the past.

The multi-part work by Irmi Adani shifts between drawing and collage. The framed fragments reflect the feeling that man's aspirations are always beyond what he can achieve – a fact that causes him to keep trying. The viewer's contemplation of the work moves like a pendulum swinging between many poles yet never achieving balance, in perpetual oscillation.

Curator: Revital Silverman-Grun

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