Gallery talk in the exhibitions ‘Local–Fragile’ and ‘Silent Storm’
Gallery talk at Benyamini center: Friday, 23.9.22 at 11:30
‘Local – Fragile’, is an exhibition of Israeli glass. The participating artists all work with glass as their primary material and live in Israel. The artists have studied at the Bezalel Academy of Arts, and many of them have also studied and worked overseas for longer or shorter periods of time. International connections are common in contemporary glass, where masterclasses in specific glass disciplines broaden knowledge, very different from the secrecy that glass practice was in the past. Read more
In the exhibition ‘Silent Storm’, Ethel Pisareff sculpts landscapes of consciousness. There are two bodies of works: scarred boats and abstract stone-like objects. The boats and the stones do not represent themselves but are metaphors of the process of becoming through which an internal conscious, illusive, unstable language is expressed. Pisareff evades the narrative and uses the images as tools that hold the energetic essence of the creative material, and the physical appearance is the endpoint of the deeper spiritual essence. Read more
