Two exhibitions
dal 7/9/2009 al 16/10/2009
Segnalato da
7/9/2009
Two exhibitions
Galerie Martin Janda, Wien
A number of years ago, Benjamin Butler took the tree as a motif to explore in his painting. Sharon Ya'ari's photos show scenes from the Israeli countryside: everyday situations, with no reference to any immediate threat.
From September 9 till October 17, 2009, Galerie Martin Janda is showing new works by Benjamin Butler and Sharon Ya’ari
A number of years ago, Benjamin Butler, born 1975 in Wamego, Kansas, took the tree as a motif to explore in his painting. “At first glance, Butler’s simplistic forms and restricted subject matter might suggest a lack of substance, but a little more time spent with his paintings reveals a deeper complexity. There are nods, for example, to Impressionism, Color Field painting, and psychedelics.” (Amra Brooks, Artforum) As part of Butler’s involvement with formal conventions of modern painting, he deconstructs the motif “tree” or “landscape” in a process of abstraction into forms, lines and patches of color. Benjamin Butler lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Sharon Ya’ari’s photos show scenes from the Israeli countryside: everyday situations, with no reference to any immediate threat. The photographic gaze, the composition of the motif and the paths which always divide the scene – they all raise questions of disturbances of the ordinary everyday life. „Living in Israel, a country with a painfully acute sense of the mutual dependency of geography and national identity, Sharon Ya'ari is particularly aware of the socially constructed character of the landscape. (…) By playing with the dictates of the Arcadian tradition, Ya'ari's images tread a fine line between reality and escape, offering up a kind of damaged utopia.” (Gregory Williams, Artforum) Sharon Ya’ari, born 1966, lives and works in Tel Aviv.
Opening: Tuesday, September 8, 2009, 7 p.m.
Galerie Martin Janda
Eschenbachgasse 11 - A-1010 Wien
Opening hours: Tue-Fri 1 p.m.-6 p.m., Sat 11 a.m.-3 p.m.
Free admission