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Draw to Close - 1994

The work: "Draw to a Close"

Displayed in the Group Exhibition "A Side of the Conflict", 1994, Haifa Auditorium

(as part of Art Focus events).

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This Artwork was displayed at the Haifa Auditorium during the Art Focus events of that year. The group exhibition consisted of a group of artists who formed a corporation named ''Workshop 24'', whose activity was centralized at ''Beit HaYotzer'' gallery, Haifa. This installation marks the end of a long, complicated process. It consists of a shelf-cabinet painted white, whose texture was roughly processed. Plastic bottles are placed on the shelves, containing a shredded material-my shredded paintings. My paintings which were doomed for shredding were taken from the works collection of the exhibition ''Yes, No, Black, White?" In the process, the paintings lost their uniqueness for a uniform appearance. The only form of identification for each work was the label attached to the bottle, on which the work title is printed, production date, and shredding date. Across from the bottle cabinet, a piece of furniture resembling an arkis placed. On top of it, a book is placed, to which I referred as an ''object book'', which supposedly describes, through illustrations, drawings, and photographs the works prior to shredding, as well as the shredding processes. The book itself was designed as an art object, thus named ''Book Object".

The Installation: ''Draw to a Close''

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The work title implies to the closing prayer of the Jewish Day of Atonement. As a matter of fact, this work finalizes a long, significant period within my artistic work, while embarking on something new and different. Aside from that work being a symbol for the tangible and the technical in my professional history, it also relates other in-depth stories.

The article I published, "From 'Yes or No? Black or White'' to ''Draw to a Close''- A Metamorphosis of an Exhibition'' on TAV website, relates the exhibition's metamorphoses to the point of compression into bottles. The final metamorphosis of the exhibition ''Yes, No, Black, White'' constitutes the installation of ''Draw to a Close'', which indeed signifies an end characterized by remorse yet signifying and bearing a beginning. The ''installation'' and the ''object book'', which are part of it, bear all phases.

The Exhibition ''Yes, No, Black, White''

An exhibition displaying black-and-white works only, on large, industrial cardboards.

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The Dissembling Stages – cutting, shearing, and shredding

"Rebecca's Pitcher" – the work is whole

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The Dissembling Stages

Michal's Laughter" – the work is whole

The Dissembling Stages

Out of Images – the work is whole

The Dissembling Stages

Shredding and Compression

The continuation of the dissembling process; shredding of the works and compression of the shredded material into the bottles

Weaving to Retain

A series of works which were produced by means of preservation, restoration, and use of straps from cut works. The remaining parts were weaved into one another to hold them together.

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The Book- Object

An ancient Art Book which I purchased at an antique market, in which I designed, arranged and drew parts of the process. The book, as an object of art, also contains documentary details of the whole process, from the whole works, through the processes of cutting and shredding to compression and placing the installation. In the exhibition, the book was placed on the ark, which stood across the shelves cabinet, forming a conceptual continuation for what was implied by the exhibition's title ''Draw to a Close"; sort of a prayer book, placed on the ark across the cabinet.

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Draw to Close - 1994