Tali Navon
Land scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
in the introductory pages of this article . What caught our attention at once was the anthropological nature of your research and the way it brings a new level of significance to the ubiquitous , still-conflictual relationship between abstraction due to the environment and realism . When walking our readers through the genesis of Forward , would you tell our readers how do you view the concepts of the real and the imagined playing out within your works ?
There is the reality of what is happening around us and there is the abstract of what is happening in our mind . This is precisely what Forward is about and why it is composed of a combination of real and abstract materials . Reality and abstract actually are interlinked . Reality is in the eye of the observer and so the abstract can change from person to person . Forward presents my interpretation of reality and , of course , each viewer can create a new layer of interpretation of it that continues it . That is what humans are and that is the human experience – building thought upon thought . So reality is the jumping-off point , but reality can be different for each person . In practice , the relationship starts off as being between the artist and the work . Afterwards , it is between the work and the viewer . So a piece that begins in solitude ends with bringing people together . I see that as the essence of life – the relationships , the connections and the threads that tie everything together . One of my paintings that delves into this issue is on display at the Israel Museum , Jerusalem , in the exhibition “ Wire ( less ) Connections ,” until March 2017 .