Layers – Ayala Zur, Yair Levi

The Small Gallery

Artists: Ayala Zur, Yair Levi

Curator: Einav Baranes Eliasov

Opening: Thursday 9/1/20 at 19:30

Closing: Saturday 29/2/20 at 14:00

The exhibition Layers evaluates a dialogue between two bodies of work of two clay artists who are unfamiliar with each other and create work that expresses family history, locality, personal stories and secrets that may be hidden or exposed as stories in the layers.

For Yair Levi the starting point is traditional wheel throwing.  He examines materials that are contrasting in their texture and color and work techniques and creates tension in the object itself. In his work there is also tension between the outside and inside.  The casing expresses the rock as a metaphor for a rough and tough exterior that protects the layered, delicate, fragile interior that bursts out. The labor-intensive works express the relationship between the personal and the communal, geological and historical, the hidden and the exposed. The objects are constrained and impulsive at the same time examining proportions, 2D and 3D, color and surface

Ayala Zur in her ceramic works expresses artistic ideas and emotions relating to other traditional crafts by including them with a contemporary touch. She is inspired by textiles, print, paper scrolls and calligraphy that are all close to her heart, which she includes in her work and through them creates layers, that are exposed or hidden, fragile and delicate.  Zur in the past few years in addition to working in clay, worked as a weaver in a gallery in Zfat and so “wove” into her work a personal expression of inter-media materiality.  She examines the tension between clay, text, calligraphy, embroidery in her works through repetition and examines the limits and force between 2D and 3D in the different objects.

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