Visual Elements: The artwork features a minimalist composition with clean lines and a neutral color palette. The main elements are a rectangular wooden board with vertical strings and metal rods protruding from it, creating a sculptural, architectural quality.
Subject Matter: The piece appears to be a kinetic or sound-based installation, with the strings and rods suggesting potential movement or interaction with the viewer.
Artistic Style and Technique: The work employs a minimalist, abstract aesthetic, focusing on the interplay of materials, form, and potential for interaction. The use of natural materials like wood and the simple, geometric composition give the piece a sense of restraint and precision.
Context: This artwork is likely part of the artist's exploration of kinetic and sound-based sculpture, experimenting with the relationship between the viewer, the artwork, and the physical environment. ...
Naama Tsabar explores the cultural norms and hierarchical systems ingrained within popular music through her sculptures, performances, and installations. Her works combine multiple elements and musical instruments, often made with industrial materials such as plywood, felt, and paper in muted tones to evoke the Post-Minimalist art movement of the 1970s. By incorporating guitar strings, tuners, microphones, and speakers, Tsabar's pieces go beyond abstract formalism and step into live performance. To liven her installations, the artist collaborates mainly with women and gender nonconforming musicians, to create music ranging from experimental noise to more conventional songwriting. Through these collaborations, Tsabar examines the intricate relationships between bodies, space, sexuality, and identity, infusing seemingly neutral objects with a distinct feminist perspective. Through her interactive installations she reimagines gendered narratives, and shifts the audience's passive perception to one of active engagement, highlighting the unheard and obscured. ...
Dvir Gallery was founded in 1982 by Dvir Intrator to introduce cutting-edge contemporary Israeli artists. In 1994 the gallery broadened its’ representation to include international artists such as Miroslaw Balka, Marianne Berenhaut, Douglas Gordon, Latifa Echakhch, and Lawrence Weiner in its’ program. In 2013, Dvir Gallery combined its’ 3 separate spaces into a 5-story building, the first of its’ kind in Tel Aviv. In 2016, the gallery opened its first gateway to Europe with a branch in Brussels, which strengthen and developed the existing relationship with the international artistic community. Earlier this year, on the occasion of its 40th anniversary, the gallery opened a space in Paris, in the heart of the historical Marais District, emphasizing the special ties and connection the gallery has had, since its beginnings, with the French cultural milieu, collaborating with artists, institutions and private collections. ...
