31.10.2009 - 26.12.2009: Side Effects
Group exhibition at Kayma gallery, Yafo.
www.Kayma.net
Free entrance, all the works are for sale at the exhibition.
Above: Segey Engel, VIOLA, 100X200cm, mixed media on wood panels. [sold]
Three installations of Shenkar stage design students Sivan Ronat, Tal Brimer and Yaara Barzel add a mind-blowing dimension to the experience, while questioning the relation between theater space, architecture and contemporary art.
The exhibition raises the issue of urbanity as an active force in the artistic process, and as such, pays an ultimate tribute to
Tel-Aviv/100.
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Side Effects
As for pharmaceutical drugs, cities provoke side effects: human, spatial, symbolic. An international group of contemporary artists, architects and stage designers offer a surrealistic approach of this urban phenomenon, a poetic vision between dream and nightmare. In all their works, the city acts as a living organism, producing unexpected, unplanned or shocking Side Effects.
Sergey Engel's giant fish wandering along the streets of the Metropolis, Eunice Figueiredo fantasmatic sea-reflection of Patrick Geddes plan for Tel Aviv - both Israeli painters and architects; the miniature drawers jutting out of compressed building blocks, by New-York based artist Nivi Alroy; the platonic beaux art excrement by French artist Daniel Cacouault (co-illustrator of "Shrek"); French artist Julien Roux's obsessive street-labyrinths and monsters; the vanishing high-rise cityscape of Parisian video artists Melanie Rozencwajg and Jhava Chikli; London based artist Gabriella Schutz with her repetitive depictions of sterile gestures in non-place environments; Israeli artist Dror Karta with his critical, spooky interpretation of urban consumerism.
Participants:
Nivi Alroy, Sergey Engel, Yaara Barzel, Tal Brimer, Dror Karta, Eunice Figueriedo, Jhava Chikli, Daniel Cacouault, Melanie Rozencwaig, Sivan Ronat, Julien Roux and Gabriella Shutz.
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