Darren Almond | The Guest | Schwebebahn

Curator: Dalia Levin
April 1, 2003 - June 21, 2003

The Guest, Video 1:15 min., 1998
Schwebebahn, Video, 12 min., 1995

דארן אלמונד
Among the themes addressed by British artist Darren Almond one may identify several major concerns. First and foremost, his fascination with time and cyclicity, their modes of expression and the tools used to measure them. His engagement with biographical issues is clearly articulated in Traction, 1999, a piece based on conversations conducted by the artist with his father and his mother. Finally, his extensive preoccupation with trains and the indirect daily culture associated with them (timetables, train stations, passenger traffic, etc.) is manifested in many of his works, among them the two pieces presented at the Herzliya Museum of Art.

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