Art|Unlimited
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118 |Art Unlimited<br />
ARIEL SCHLESINGER<br />
Title | Untitled (Empty Room), 2012<br />
Media |Gas tanks, propane, glass door, nozzle; dimensions variable<br />
Artist |Ariel Schlesinger, *1980, Jerusalem, Israel<br />
Lives and works inBerlin, Germany, and New York, NY, United States<br />
Gallery |Lambert<br />
Yvon Lambert<br />
FR-75003 Paris |108, rue Vieille-du-Temple<br />
Phone +33 142710933|Fax +33 142718747<br />
paris@yvon-lambert.com |www.yvon-lambert.com<br />
Directors |Yvon Lambert, Olivier Bélot, Séverine Waelchli, Nicolas Nahab,<br />
Mélanie Meffrer-Rondeau, Eléonore Lambertie, Luisa Lagos<br />
Artwork Description |Inhis practice, Ariel Schlesinger interrogates our way of looking at things through<br />
asubtle disruption of everyday life. By creating situations that provoke surprise<br />
or put the viewer in jeopardy, heputs our relationship to ordinary objects and<br />
familiar contexts out of balance. Ariel Schlesinger uses simple technologies to<br />
divert familiar objects from their original function, thus making them rare and<br />
surreal.<br />
For Art Unlimited, Ariel Schlesinger presents anew version of his installation<br />
shown atKunstverein Braunschweig in2011. The intervention is minimal: six<br />
gas cylinders are placed in aspace easily visible through the glass door in<br />
the illuminated interior. The viewer initially perceives them as mere objects, as<br />
apurely sculptural intervention. Yet, when they approach the closed glass door,<br />
they see alittle flame flickering. The presumably harmless exhibition situation<br />
instantly changes, as it seems likely that the flame itself isfueled by the gas<br />
contained in the space. What was the distanced, analytical contemplation of art<br />
becomes an ad hoc feeling of acute, even personal threat.<br />
Untitled (Empty Room<br />
Braunschweig), 2011<br />
Installation view, Kunstverein<br />
Braunschweig, 2011
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