Grobman by Kollektiv
My last post was long ago before summer vacation, so some updates for the last three months which were full of interesting projects.
Grobman by Kollektiv
The Israeli artist and poet Michail Grobman immigrated to Israel from Moscow in 1971. Grobman is the only representative of the Second Russian Avant-Garde (the most progressive art movement in the USSR during that period, with artists such as Illya Kabakov, Erik Bulatov and others) who decided to settle in Israel, and immediately gained attention, appreciation and even a solo exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. But, true to his way, he later consciously put himself at an opposition to the local art scene. Grobman’s action paradoxically connects various cultural traditions, and his ideas represent a critical outlook on the state of global art, and in particular on the development of Israeli art. These choices explain Grobman’s unique situation within the local art sphere, a uniqueness which raises discourse. As part of the “Grobman” project, the participating group of artists copy Grobman’s paintings with a maximal level of accuracy, but use fluorescent colours that glow in Ultraviolet lighting. The use of these materials locates Grobman’s elitist attitudes towards both ideology and aesthetics in a context of psychedelic pop culture, and thus opens new options for interpretation and an intriguing mixture of appreciation and irony with respect to the past. The “Grobman” exhibition is a project of the “Collective” group, as a hommage to the artist it brings about a conceptual practice of “appropriation art”. It raises the issue of the creator’s uniqueness and the value of the original work in an era of technical copying. The decision to take this approach stems from the desire to internally connect with Grobman’s work, to walk step-by-step in his path while letting go of the self-expression (a practice that is unknown to us in a hommage exhibitions), and as a result to create a sort of retrospective exhibition that in fact has no original works. The personal of each artist represents itself in brief and concise moments.
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Exhibition opened 17.07.10 – 13.08.10 at Kishon Gallery
Participants: Max Epstein, Irina Birger, Giyora Bergel, Natasha Brilliantova, Arcadi Greenman, Marat Dusembaev, Natalia Zourabova, Dina Yakerson, Andrey Lev, Katia Lifshits, Tamir Lichtenberg, Max Lomberg, Liron Lupu, Anna Lukashevsky, Ido Michaeli, Vika Samoilova, Maria Pomiansky, Zoya Cherkassky, Tanya Kaganov, Masha Rubin, Alona Rodeh, Menashe Kadishman
Curator: Rufina Valsky | www.KishonGallery.com |
Grobman by Kollektiv | Andrey Lev | Zoya cherkassky | Anna Lukashevsky |
