LandEscape Art Review // Special Issue | Page 212

LandE scape

Ehud Schori
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
picture and sent it to an exhibition " The Paradox of Water ".
For this special edition of LandEscape we have selected Daniel in the lions ' den , an extremely interesting site specific art exhibition arranged in a geological garden in Ramat Hasharon and that our readers have already started to get to know in the introductory pages of this article : when walking our readers through the genesis of Daniel in the lions ' den would you tell our readers how do you view the concepts of the real and the imagined playing out within your works ?
My artwork " Daniel in the Lions ' Den " is an interesting example . It was installed in a Garden of Rocks in which the landscape architect arranged groups of rocks as monuments . One group reminded me of lions so I ' ve drawn lion faces on the rocks and added Daniel to make up a story . ( For me , lions without Daniel is not a story .) There is nothing real in the Rocks Garden . It is all an idea of an architect . My artwork was an interpretation of his work . It stood there for only a month , but people who have seen it still see these rocks as a family of lions .
Daniel in the lions ' den could be considered as an exploration of the insterstitial point between figurative and abstract in constructed space in the way you compare the bamboo human to the stone lions , establishing direct relations with the viewers : German multidisciplinary artist Thomas Demand once stated that " nowadays art can no longer rely so much on symbolic strategies and has to probe psychological , narrative elements within the medium instead ". What is your opinion about it ?
Art of today and Society are not disconnected , even if there are some artists who feel so . Therefore Art relies on old social and psychological symbols , while we , the artists , produce new symbols to be tested by our society .
Another interesting project of yours that has particularly impressed us and on which we would like to spend some words is entitled HOUSES BY THE SEA : we appreciated the way you have been capable of creating a point of convergence between a kind of imagery belonging to universal imagery and direct experience with concrete aesthetics you convey through a personal language . So we would take this occasion to ask you if in your opinion personal experience is an absolutely indespensable part of a creative process ... Do you think that a creative process could be disconnected from direct experience ?
Everything you do is influenced by your personal experience , including Art .