About the exhibition
In her new exhibition of paintings, Orly Maiberg has changed her focus from the world outside, from the vast expanse of the sea, to an inner world. Her eye concentrates on the realm of the private, the domestic, narrowing her view to the confines of the bedroom, in those diminutive moments between sleep and wakefulness.
In a reductive process the populated room is abandoned, the bed is empty and only a sign remains, an imprint as memory. The emptiness is illuminated by light from the window and paradoxically the room is lit up in its desolation. The abstract treatment of the deserted bedding calls to mind the undulating waves of the sea, the artist's personal signature.
Maiberg's paintings are beautiful and, because of the nature of the subject matter, inviting. They invite the viewer to look closely, to touch, to penetrate this private world. And after a few seconds, when the sense of voyeurism abates, the viewer, like the artist, finds him/herself wavering between feelings of remoteness and temptation.
Oil on canvas,
190x109cm,
2003
Oil on canvas,
115x76cm,
2003
Shlomit Altman - The Arabs pass by in
Silence
April 10 - May 16, 2003
'The Arabs Pass by in Silence" Shulamut Altman quotes this line
from " On the way to the Cinema" by Yair Garbuz to serve as a
thematic and dialogue title for her installation. The title and
the installation steer the exhibit toward a critique of the decline
of " "democratic" Israeli society into empty and protected functional-
existential ceremonies that have replaced the need for substantive
political acts in the protest of the "situation" in Israel and
the territories. Altman points to extensive actions that seem
to have fallen under the spell of the intransigent and inflexible
cycle of violence.
From Naomi Aviv article . March 2003
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Oil on canvas,
188x122cm,
2003
Oil on canvas,
170x124cm,
2003
Oil on canvas, 128x170cm,
2003
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