Uri Dotan
dal 14/5/2003 al 21/6/2003
Segnalato da
14/5/2003
Uri Dotan
Paul Rodgers / 9W, New York
In his first solo exhibition at Paul Rodgers/9W, New Media artist Uri Dotan will present digital images printed on canvas from his Blue Street, Left Behind and Disintegrating Spheres series, together with a video featuring a sound track collaboration of the celebrated composer Ornette Coleman.
Constructive Beauty
Featuring 'Activation' a video collaboration with Ornette Coleman
Visual Installation by Uri Dotan
In his first solo exhibition at Paul Rodgers/9W, New Media artist Uri Dotan will present digital images printed on canvas from his Blue Street, Left Behind and Disintegrating Spheres series, together with a video featuring a sound track collaboration of the celebrated composer Ornette Coleman.
An early protagonist in the on-going digital revolution fusing art and technology, Dotan is defining here what the emerging identity of new media art means for him. Dotan brings to bear both a classical and modern aesthetic on New Media, overlaying the grid of digital image-making onto the canvas weave, so that the organic and technological fuse in a haunting new presence. The Blue Streets, Left Behind and Disintegrating Spheres series are different aspects behind the same endeavor of grasping a reality - a 'Constructive Beauty' - underneath what the eye beholds.
The exhibition also celebrates the artistic friendship between Ornette Coleman and Uri Dotan, after collaborations on numerous projects in recent years. Sharing an affinity for the heterogeneous architecture and energy of the modern city, both artists have employed multiple view-points and multi-layered tonalities of color and sound which they project into infinitely expanding and contracting new spaces.
For 'Activation', Coleman sat in front of Dotan's video and composed its sound-track in real time. On June 25, Dotan will repay this compliment by providing the visual installation at Carnegie Hall for a concert by the Ornette Coleman Trio, entitled 'American Dreams'.
Uri Dotan is a New York-based artist who received his MFA degree at the School of Visual Arts. Dotan has exhibited in numerous gallery and museum spaces in collaboration with such curators as Timothy Druckery and Michael Sand. In 2001 he had a multi-media one-man show at the Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan, Israel, and last year was commissioned by the Ars Electronica New Media Festival to create a video and sound installation entitled 'We Fall' on the murder of Daniel Pearl, as documented in the notorious Al-Queda tape which has never been shown on public television.
June 25, 'American Dreams', Concert at Carnegie Hall by the Ornette Coleman Trio
For further information, please contact the gallery by phone (212) 414-9810 or email.
Paul Rodgers / 9W
529 West 20th Street
New York