Language:
English
Pages:
132 Seiten, [2] Blatt, 80 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Year of publication:
2018
Keywords:
Installation
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Künstlerin
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Ausstellung
Abstract:
Regardless of her chosen media – wood, metal or fabric – Dina Recanati’s art remains steadily dedicated to the abstract. The great advantage of abstract art is the freedom it gives creators, and the room for interpretation it allows for viewers. Dina Recanati works within this boundless freedom and invites viewers to enter a world that combines colors and forms, dream and reality. Glimpses of Dina Recanati’s memories, which feed into her works, appear in both early and recent works. The memories, in shapes and colors, are tucked into the fabric folds, hidden behind arches and gates, and sketched in the pages of wordless books. The works’ colors – light desert tones, sky blues, and more recently, white – are the colors of memories. Some are very clear, others have blurred over time. The female figures in Passage (2000) are covered from head to toe, reminiscent of the “unidentifiable” women who populated the streets of Cairo in the 1940s, and who have in recent years returned to the streets of many cities worldwide. These figures’ colors and material makeup joins the artist’s earlier large abstract paintings, Untitled (1992). As if a landscape seen from the window of a fast train, memory acquires blurred colors and a checkered interpretation in the abstract paintings, which stress the free use of color in a way that leaves much room for coincidence. Although the appearance is based on concrete sights it is blurred, leaving behind more a sense of the colors than visual images. The fluidity of the colors and the amorphic stains emphasize the free movement of the colors on the canvas. Lacking perspective and center, the color stains all have the same value as they merge with each other. The form becomes secondary in these large colorful paintings that seem limited only by the size of the canvas. The Open Museum Tefen is honored to host the exhibition and its accompanying book, which together enfold 60 years of Dina Recanati’s creation. Ruthi Ofek
URL:
http://www.omuseums.org.il/eng/mmt_art_gallery/Art_Gallery
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