This vibrant contemporary artwork features an abstract composition of bold, geometric shapes and playful imagery. The canvas is dominated by a striking blue background, punctuated by dynamic shapes in various shades of pink, green, and yellow. A whimsical cartoon-like figure, resembling a rabbit or mouse, is depicted in mid-dive against the blue expanse. The overall style is reminiscent of Henri Matisse's cut-outs, with the artist employing a distinctive, playful technique to create a visually engaging and cheerful composition. The work likely reflects the artist's intention to convey a sense of joy, movement, and a childlike wonder through the use of simplified, abstracted forms and vibrant colors. ...
Simon Fujiwara’s work is intrinsically performative and interdisciplinary. His installations combine photography, film, painting, and sculpture, as he traverses his own personal biography in relation to wider thematics of history, memory, colonialism, and sexuality. The artist frequently draws on his mixed British and Japanese heritage and his experiences of living between Japan, Europe, and Africa as a child. This was an incredibly formative period for Fujiwara, as he was made aware of the hypocrisy and precarities which run throughout different cultures and the consequential similarities between different countries. With a degree in architecture, Fujiwara frequently includes these skills in his exhibitions. For example, in his ongoing project Welcome to the Hotel Munber (2006-), he built an elaborate set of his Family’s hotel and bar in 1970s Fascist Spain, reconfiguring it as an underground site for queer happenings. This piece has since been animated by performative lectures and publications, travelling to multiple locations in its nearly twenty-year history. Other durational pieces include his Who bear series (2020-), in which he created a cartoon character, a bear called “Who”, who tackles pressing questions concerning contemporary art institutions and broader issues of transnational politics. While existing in a distinctly tongue and cheek, absurdist arena, Fujiwara’s works continue to occupy a hard-hitting, darkly humorous space.
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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. ...
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