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"Sculptural Installation"
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The
exhibition Sculptural Installation will be on display at the Office in Tel
Aviv Gallery from September 4, 2003.
Noga has secrets: the secret of reduction, the secret of sensuality, the
secret of mobility, and the secret of sculpture-wrapping. She likes the
silence and creates from a closed inner world, locked up with feelings of
mourning that are covered with many layers of new hues devised in the
course of her life.
Yudkovik-Etzioni creates personal sculptures,best replica watches clearly defined in terms of
form. Typified by sensual seduction, they strongly evoke the desire in the
viewer to touch the objects that seem to have assumed a mindset all their
own. It is not the perfection of these sculptures that is so luring, but
rather their fragility. Their rawness conjures up enchanting moments of
temptation. The objects' variegated coloration and their tactile quality
generate sensual pleasure, allowing for their storage in the memory box.
The four sculptures in the current show elucidate the very essence of
Yudkovich-Etzioni's work process - the act of concealing and wrapping with
fabrics, the mobility, the treatment of the image, whether it is
concretely defined, like the crocodile, or remains abstract. At times she
takes an existing object, such as a fin, infusing it with a new life. The
sculptures she dubs 'objects' assume a life of their own once they are
formed. It is a proven fact that once her own hands have created them, she
can actually hear them: "Once they infiltrate my inattention, I can hear
the noises emerging, flowing, scattered, as if they emanate from another
world." The objects elicit visual memories in her, originating in some
prior experience. The fog she has cast on the bereavement that accompanied
her childhood is clearly discernible in the objects wrapped in translucent
fabrics, in layers that conceal the sculpture's interior, yet reveal the
intricate stratification in an attempt to wrap the form with soft, elastic
textiles that are only ostensibly transparent.
How does a sculpture crystallize? "At times I see an amorphous shape on
the street and imagine a puddle," she says. It can be triggered by color
or by form. On the way to active creation, the object's aesthetic
qualities come into play, without delineating boundaries. The
sculptures-objects are distinctively created manually, calling to mind the
nature of works by artists such as Louise Bourgeois and Marie-Ange
Guilleminot.
Six round shapes reminiscent of gigantic buttons, or alternatively, round
car mines, will be installed on the gallery floor: a crocodile, a bomb,
and fins, among others, will emerge from a niche in the wall.
Noga Yudkovik-Etzioni 1962 Born in Kibbutz Kfar Giladi. Lives and works in
Tel Aviv. 1991 B.F.A., Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem. 1995
M.F.A., Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam. 1989 Excellence Award on
behalf of the Sharet Scholarship Program, America-Israel Cultural
Foundation. 1990 Prize for Academic Excellence, Bezalel Academy of Art and
Design, Jerusalem.