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3.10.03>>31.10.03
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."Running with My Eyes Closed"
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Daniella Gottlieb Azoulay is the contemporary realization of "The portrait
of the artist as a young man" by James Joyce. The way she manages the
Israeli world of art testifies to her innocence in all its purity. She
understands things in a romantic manner and believes in the connection
between mystical images and her subjective reality. In moments of exalted
gentleness, she creates and modifies an object on plywood to a painting
which allows the viewer to participate in the experience of takeoff into
the world of visions in wonderland. The visual impressions are magical
moments whose beauty glows as in science fiction where all things are
possible and in high gear as in the films of "Matrix".
She becomes disgusted by logic. The buildings she draws are engineeringly
illogical, you can not build them, what one can see in the paintings is
the possibility of composing a home, according to Daniella home is a
source of energy "This is the site of my dreams". The paintings show a
process of thought that combines visions and hallucinations. She sees
streams of light flowing in the houses and the water. This stream of light
is reflected in her urban paintings which are an entirety of structures
and light waves in a perspective which leads the eye to the center of
creation and there at fusion point bursts the Great Bang. Sometimes it
becomes the convergence site of the lost town's folk at other times she
lets the cyclists follow a path into the forest - a green imaginary
sanctuary. Observing her compositions leads one to directions saturated
with possibilities. Each subject could become a theatrical stage design
for a scene borrowed from science fiction. And once upon a time, she
didn't look for but found a cave and decided to live there. Many long
months, alone, in wintry as in summery weather she lived in her private
grotto/palace on the hill slopes of Rosh-Pina. This cave and its field of
views will accompany her feverish imagination hereafter.
She goes her own way in creation as in life. Modesty is not a part but the
whole of her being. She is like the inner beauty of spirit and her deeds
uncover the spirituality of art. She has the ability to disengage from the
chains of civilization wherein lie boredom, sluggishness and the necessity
to do as the others.
The name of the exhibition "Running with my eyes closed" reveals the way
Daniella works, the sources of her inspiration and her ability to
disconnect from reality and merge into magical worlds where wondrous
visions accompany her. The development of these abilities is connected to
her long distance running in glowing Jerusalem nights. She runs twelve
kilometers three times a week on a track around the university in
Givat-Ram. "I am running with eyes closed, hover in the imagination and
sing aloud while doing so".
At the gallery "Office in Tel-Aviv" will be exhibited oil and acrylic
paintings on canvas and recycled plywood. In the courtyard of the gallery
will be placed a tree made of netting and sprinkled with scintillates.
Danniella Gottlieb Azoulay born in Jerusalem in 1972,lives and works in
the Ein-Kerem youth hostel, a graduate in ceramics and glass at the
Bezalel Academy of Arts, Jerusalem, 1997.