Elisheva Levy | The Rear

Curator: Joshua Simon | Artistic Director: Dalia Levin
Sep. 23, 2007 - Dec. 15, 2007

Oh!, 2007, floor installation
אלישבע לוי
At first sight, the artist seems to have left her tools on site. The romantic gesture changes diametrically, however, when it turns out that the spray cans are imitations. These are sculptures of cans, made of paper. Ordinarily, we do not see the can, only the label wrapping it. We know only what it looks like from the outside; a can is but an envelope. Levy’s cans never painted the painting; the painting is the pedestal on which they are presented. The cans’ style belongs to the aesthetics of the counterfeit world. They are too light, like the cover of a ‘fake’, home-burned CD, and their coloration is faded and saturated like covers created on a domestic printer.

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