Fi Fa Fu
Artist:
Marecha Yitzhak
Curator:
Gordon Irena
Aditional opening with Yitzhak Marecha Sun.28.4.13 at 5 pm
Yitzhak Marecha examines the image, its possibilities and ways of changing through a combination of motifs from science and technology as well as from the realms of fantasy. He juggles with the image and stretches its limits, while using mundane ready-made materials, citations from the history of art, and a constant oscillation between various techniques. He chooses collective visual images, which he abstracts and exposes, dismantles and reassembles.
His vast artistic creation from the last years presented in this exhibition unravels its unique transformation and metamorphic processes. His works, freed from traditional notions of perspective and compositions, remove the images from their conventional concepts and turn them upside down. Marecha creates an absurd, dark and enchanting landscape, in which culture imagery, its shadow and its traces, meet fantastic and anonymous spaces. They bring up onto the surface the sense and non-sense that are intrinsic to the manner in which the image functions and receives meaning. The sense of release, lying at the heart of the works, enables their establishment as a sequence of both utopian and melancholic gestures.
