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GISART
C-5 Digital Photography 24” x 31.5”
The Barcelona photographer, GISART, creates digital
collages that resemble innovative visual encyclopedias.
They simultaneously convey the irrepressible energy
of improvisation and the powerful sense of picking up
some essential thread running through every sector of
our globalized society. Yet for all the disparate imagery
GISART pulls together, the various elements are so
smoothly integrated that the effect rarely overwhelms.
Gently overlapping or flowing calmly into one another, his
assembled images achieve a surprising degree of coherence
and legibility despite being packed into densely coalesced
groups. His free-associative collages ask viewers to draw
connections and causality between the elements he puts
into play.
Somewhere in these collections of images, a clearer
picture of our visual culture comes into focus. Tying
together contemporary news footage, art history, early
photojournalism, modern art, advertising, pop culture
and discarded everyday photography, GISART’s mode of
connecting images varies wildly. In some cases contiguous
pictures are thematically related, elsewhere their subjects
are tangential while they resemble one another aesthetically,
still in other places it’s the very familiarity of the given
images that forms their relation. Unpacking GISART’s
collages, viewers can go in any direction and find multiple
connections, creating patterns in the visual cacophony of
our hyper-mediated world. His works offer new ways of
thinking about and seeing the visual landscape we inhabit.
SHIFRA
An untamed experience awaits audiences of Israeli
photographer Shifra, where familiar objects take on an
otherworldly form. Her inventive approach to photography
features unusual manipulation of imagery where subjects
shimmer, dissolve, or liquefy. Motion, reflection and rhythm
are the vanguards in Shifra’s creative arsenal. In many
instances the images take on an emotional quality, wherein
subtle lighting may soothe and rapid gesticulations may
shock us into heightened awareness.
With seemingly no boundaries to artistic invention, Shifra
allows us to experience the world through new eyes. What
began as a talent for drawing evolved into photography, a
field transformed by cutting-edge digital programs. The
photographs are abstractions captured from reality, a
fragmented and fascinating view of the world. The year
2007 was a magnificent leap in Shifra’s artistic career; in the
same year that she held two successful solo shows, many
of her works were collected and published. She continues
to exhibit frequently throughout Israel and New York.
Websites: www.shifrart.com
http://www.art-mine.com/ArtistPage/Shifra.aspx
The Deep Photograph on Canvas 22” x 27.5”
Websites: www.gomezisart.com
www.Art-Mine.com/ArtistPage/GISART.aspx
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