Yuval Sharon – Display

Fifth exhibition in the 16th Nidbach series

Yuval Sharon applies a wide ranged view that doesn’t allow any thing to get by; from thought and observation of critical and significant phenomena to the esoteric and unnecessary, Sharon builds a personal, rich and layered world. It is as if he holds within himself several different artists with complex, sometimes clashing or baseless, understandings. Through them he collects the contrasts and casts them into one. Rummaging through Yuval’s studio reveals, amongst others, an artist who extracts an exacting poetic out of the known and the unnecessary. Thus, the hands on the clock that was bought at a “dime store” are detached and a pink sunset is painted in their place. The clock’s hands, the officers of time, were replaced by the natural and familiar enchantment of the day’s demise. But he doesn’t stop there; the handless sunset clock is yet to be hung on an aggressive and grey painting of hangers. The hangers, as if they were the souls of the dead clock’s hands, resume working.
Thus, from painting to painting, from artist to artist, Yuval composes his unique language and raises questions of authenticity and loyalty, melting down and re-welding the relevant and the unnecessary.
Avi Sabah