ISBN:
9789655390315
Language:
English
Pages:
130 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Year of publication:
2011
Series Statement:
[Tel Aviv Museum of Art] Catalogue = Katalog / Muze'on Tel Aviv la-Omanut 2011/7
Series Statement:
Catalogue
Keywords:
Künstler
;
Ausstellung
Abstract:
Drawing has been dominant in Yoav Efrati's work since the early 1990s, and since 1997 he defines himself as a draftsman. Efrati's drawings are at times full of expression, at times blatant, and at others, as here, they are enigmatically reductive, concise and restrained through a process of resignation. Focusing on ascetic drawing in a small format, at times using a very hard pencil that marks/engraves a thin line on paper until the image almost disappears, is a kind of reduction of the artistic act, of the artistic object, of the image itself. The world is not at the center of Efrati's work - certainly not the seen world, nor art and its history - but rather, the family, childhood, ordinary people and "secondary characters": mother, father, child and their variations (man and woman, woman and child, etc.), which are lonely even if at times accompanied by other images, animals, forms and objects.
URL:
http://www.tamuseum.com/about-the-exhibition/yoav-efrati-drawings
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