Nir Hod
dal 26/4/2007 al 26/5/2007
Segnalato da
26/4/2007
Nir Hod
Galerie Davide Gallo, Berlin
The artist resumes topics that he previously began in his artistic career. The heroes and heroines in his paintings play parts in a grandiose, imaginary melodrama that belongs to the realms of eternity, mythology and fairy tales.
Solo show
On April 27th, 2007, galerie davide gallo has the pleasure of presenting
the first European s of the Israeli artist Nir Hod. In his last
series of paintings, the artist resumes and emphasizes topics that he
previously began in his artistic career.
"Soldiers", a series presented in its entirety in 2005 at the Museum of
Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv deals with the themes of beauty, death,
sacrifice, and youth, themes already clear and perfectly developed in
his work. In this new series of paintings, Nir Hod concentrates on the
feminine identity
"Farewell Sofia", a painting representing a dog, shows the absence of
the woman, standing for melancholy and separation. "Soldier in Sinai" is
a painting which incorporates all the themes of Nir Hod. The topic of
sacrifice and death as a consequence of war is emphasized with greater
determination.
"Two Girls" is a hymn to love and intimacy, feminine identity from
another painterly perspective filled with irony and poetical
desecration. "Masturbation" is a work in which the artist reaches a rare
technical perfection. The perspective and the asymmetrical cut are the
true protagonists of the painting. The joy, the ambiguity of pleasure
and the recurring ambiguity of the line between death and sleep, and
between life and dream constitute the nucleus center as well as the
poetry of Nir Hod.
"Mother and I" refers to childhood as lost mythology, a romantic dream.
In this work there is also an underlying ambiguity: the realism of the
description and the irrealism of the subject and of the space that
encircles it.
The landscape is like that in a fable, the intimate serenity of the
emotional dialogue between mother and son set against the nearly
scientific analysis of visual data which gets lost in an infinite game
of details
More info about the artist
Nir Hod is a missionary of beauty. Fame and loneliness, heroism, youth,
glamour and death are served up in his work in heaping doses. The heroes
and heroines in his paintings - most of whom are cast in his own image -
play parts in a grandiose, imaginary melodrama that belongs to the
realms of eternity, mythology and fairy tales. The world depicted in his
paintings appears as if it truly belongs to the young. His beautiful,
glorified heroes never sweat or emit body odors, nor will they ever grow
old. Even in death, their beauty will remain pure, untouchable and
untarnished.
The glamour parcel that Hod presents to the viewer in a
saccharine-sweet, ostentatious cellophane wrapper reveals itself to be a
capsule filled with emotion, passion and death, which challenges ideas
about beauty in the era after modernism.
Tami Katz Frieman
Galerie Davide Gallo
Linienstrasse 156 - Berlin