Sunday, March 23, 2008

Urinary State, Avner Bar Hama, Installation

portrait of Herzl and the Magen David Urinary State

This detail from an artwork that includes a portrait of Herzl and the Magen David (not seen here)  is published here courtesy of the artist, and all rights are reserved to him.

According to art explorer David Sperber (translation by zeevveez):

In Avner Bar Hama’s Installation Urinary State a modern urinary is placed under the Duchamp urinary photograph. "We are living in a changing world: reality is changing as well as identity; everything changes and smells bad. What we see here is a protest against the culture of "what will the neighbors say? ". In spite of this, on the portrait of Herzl appears his saying "our hope have never been lost”.

Light Reserved Only For The Righteous

Magen David Righteous Israeli art

This artwork is published here courtesy of the artist and all rights are reserved to him.

Elements of Magen David in the creation of Avner Bar Hama Light Reserved Only For The Righteous

According to art explorer David Sperber (translation by zeevveez):

The dimension of the kabbalistic “breaking of the tools” " appears also in Bar Hama’s new works, in which the artist looks for moments of astonishment made by phenomena of light in the nature and in architectural constructions.

Subjects such as the original sin, the deportation from paradise and the breakage of the Tablets are discussed here. This is a search of the hidden light that the world was unfit for it in the process of Genesis, according to tradition, and therefore it was concealed for the righteous to be used in the future (according to Babylonian Talmud, Hagigah 12:a).

Dismantled Magen David

Dismantled Magen David israeli artAvner Bar Hama, Dismantled Magen David, 1973
Polished stainless steel on black marbleThe work is published here courtesy of the artist and all rights are reserved to him.
According to art explorer David Sperber (translation by zeevveez):
In the sculpture base two pillars resonant Yachin and Boaz Solomon Temple pillars, according to the Bible story. Eight pyramids stand on the pillars, and seems to try to come together and to organize a form of a Magen David, without success.