| The Swimmer - acrylic on wood, 1992. Made according to the philosophic approach that all materials are based on smaller basic materials, down to the atomic level. The creation separates color from color, as expressed in the light stains that glint in the swimming pool, or maybe as a spiritual apotheosis. Every color layer is made of stains that are actually images that combine into larger images. This is done under the influence of the French artist Sare, and the image of the female swimmer was scanned from Newsweek. The writing at the bottom of the picture is supposed to give an expression to the information bombardment that we receive from different media types, causing complete apathy, in which nothing has meaning or context. The phrase was randomly taken from a newspaper. Still it must be noted that the tension between the word BURN and the water depicted and the wood on which the drawing took place has riveted me throughout the creation. Once creationed with computer printing, the wooden background becomes an illusion. In the creationed parts of the creation, the lighter color is that of the wood itself, as it remains bare as if due to impressionistic influence. The creation took 2 months to complete. The wooden board was picked from one of the deserted streets of the Tel-Aviv industrial zones. |