- Venue
- Arbeit Gallery
- Starts
- Thursday, July 19, 2012
- Ends
- Sunday, July 29, 2012
- Address
- 4 Helmet Row, EC1V 3QJ
- Location
- London
Arbeit Gallery & Modern Art Israel present ‘De-Construct/Re-Construct/We-Construct’. A British/Israeli joint experimental project involving the pairing of six diverse artists. Each pair was asked to examine, create and develop the making of art by means of new platforms and methods within a mutual capacity. During a four-month period, the coupled artists explored, shared and exchanged their artistic endeavours via a virtual system of private online studios, allowing them to interact with each other on a personal and artistic level, sharing and creating any material they wished to upload to these platforms. Several conceptual ideas were followed during this project: Objectivity/Subjectivity: between creation, contemplation and analysis, the balance between the artists and these ideals. The artists did not have full control on the creative process, but all had the ability to shift it to their liking, therefore leaving them to experience an ‘in-between’ state. They had to come to terms with the fact that the work has its own destiny; its own past, present & future, and therefore reflecting on whether a mutual work can arise when there is more than one subject/theme, or in fact, none at all. Artists: Cos Ahmet, Abraham Kritzman, Barak Brinker, Leonie Lachlan, Orly Dvir, Daniel Bourke Curators: Sharon Toval & Nimrod Vardi Opening Event: Thursday 19 July, 6pm-9pm
