Ariel Schlesinger
Ariel Schlesinger turns daily products of consumption into rare and surreal objects. By "transformation" and "damage" of domestic accessories, Schlesinger creates a world of poetical imagery. He combines household objects and simple technology in order to create absurd acts such as L’angoisse de la page blanche (2006), a pair of papers in a joint dance, or Untitled (Bubble Machine) (2006), a machine that makes soap bubbles and then sets them on fire. In 2003, at the Gordon Gallery in Tel Aviv, he presented a group of small kinetic constructions–three-dimensional drawings, if you like–made out of thin metal wires. The movement of these non-functional mechanical objects gave the impression of an on-going, repetitive rhythm in space. His objects retain mimetic qualities and are full of freshness and wittiness. They belong at one and the same time to the discipline of sculpture as well as to that of design.
Schlesinger has had solo exhibitions at Contemporary Art Center in Tel-Aviv, Kunsthaus Baselland in Basel, Herzliya Museum for Contemporary Art in Israel, and Kunstverein Braunschweig in Germany, among other institutions. His work has been shown in group exhibitions at the Herzliya Museum for Contemporary Art, CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo in …
Ariel Schlesinger turns daily products of consumption into rare and surreal objects. By "transformation" and "damage" of domestic accessories, Schlesinger creates a world of poetical imagery. He combines household objects and simple technology in order to create absurd acts such as L’angoisse de la page blanche (2006), a pair of papers in a joint dance, or Untitled (Bubble Machine) (2006), a machine that makes soap bubbles and then sets them on fire. In 2003, at the Gordon Gallery in Tel Aviv, he presented a group of small kinetic constructions–three-dimensional drawings, if you like–made out of thin metal wires. The movement of these non-functional mechanical objects gave the impression of an on-going, repetitive rhythm in space. His objects retain mimetic qualities and are full of freshness and wittiness. They belong at one and the same time to the discipline of sculpture as well as to that of design.
Schlesinger has had solo exhibitions at Contemporary Art Center in Tel-Aviv, Kunsthaus Baselland in Basel, Herzliya Museum for Contemporary Art in Israel, and Kunstverein Braunschweig in Germany, among other institutions. His work has been shown in group exhibitions at the Herzliya Museum for Contemporary Art, CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo in Madrid, Kunstverein Freiburg, Swiss Institute in New York, Museum Tinguely in Basel, De Appel Art Center in Amsterdam, Hayward Gallery in London, Warsaw’s Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.
Courtesy of Divr Gallery
