 Rona Yefman: Ivan, 2001 lambda print, 31.5 x 23.62 inches, 80 x 60 cm Sommer Show Artists from Sommer Gallery, Tel Aviv Yehudit Sasportas, Doron Solomons, Eliezer Sonnenschein, Sharon Ya'ari, Rona Yefman Lehmann Maupin would like to announce "Sommer Show", an invitational exhibition presenting the work of five Israeli artists from Sommer Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv: Yehudit Sasportas, Doron Solomons, Eliezer Sonnenschein, Sharon Ya'ari, and Rona Yefman. The exhibition will be a significant opportunity to expose New York audiences to the work of these young artists. The black marker landscape drawings of Yehudit Sasportas depict scraggy dried forests. The fine, linear renderings are meticulously hand drawn and recall architectural and scientific field drawings and diagrammatical patterns. Detailed, but nonspecific, Sasportas' drawings are constructed both freehand and aided by a straightedge. The use of both types of lines results in a fragmented natural setting, and a tension between the organic and technical. Doron Solomons' projected video "Lullaby" presents nine separate flickering scenes of violent acts taken from news media from around the world. The images are visible for only a few seconds at a time and are accompanied throughout by a constant buzz. The relentless accumulation of the brutal moments presents the viewer with an overwhelming and violent snapshot of the world and human acts of brutality. Eliezer Sonnenschein constructs painted life-size guns and rifles adorned with corporate logos and slogans. These brightly-colored weapons deal with corporate exploitation, consumer culture, and control over the masses in both violent and non-violent forms. The logos and cheery palate cover and conceal the agenda beneath. The artist regards the exhibition of the weapons as a form of guerrilla warfare. Sonnenschein's paintings on panel use fantastic and sinister images and symbols to create fictional scenes and narratives. Sharon Ya'ari takes enigmatic photographs of the seemingly mundane or ordinary such as an empty set of chairs at a table. His photos are composed with a painter's sensibility and a careful consideration of framing. With nothing apparently concrete to have justified a serious photograph of the subject matter, the act of doing so becomes absurd, and the meaningless effort to capture such banality becomes a metaphor for all human activity. Rona Yefman's photographs are derived from the idea of the family photo album. Combinations of her photographs offer intimate stories of different characters, some real and some fictitious. Taken in a documentary or snapshot style, her photos often deal with issues of youth, sexual identity, and marginalized and eccentric personalities. Exhibition: June 10 - July 30, 2004 Gallery hours: Mon-Fri 10 am - 6 pm Lehmann Maupin Gallery 540 West 26 Street USA-New York, NY 10001 Telephone +1 212 255 2923 Fax +1 212 255 2924 Email info@lehmannmaupin.com www.lehmannmaupin.com |
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