Exhibition 19/02
- 17/ 03/1998
Opening 19/02/1998
, 8 - 11 pm
In
presence of the artist
Uri Tzaig is born in 1965 in Israel. After a major in
theatre direction, design and playwritting (School of Visual Theatre,
Jerusalem), he started to combine the written and the visual, and to use many
mediums such as literature, installations, printed matter and more recently
videos, which constitue a transition, a new critical step in his work.
At
the last Documenta, he showed The
Universal Square (1996), a film based on a football game where two teams play with two balls.
For
his first exhibition in Greece, Uri Tzaig, In addition of installations and
objects, will show Play (1996):
“Play
is an additional situation, a continuation of the work Tzaig has created
in which a game of football (soccer) is conducted with two balls (Universal
Square). Instead of the standard situation wherein the rules are known in
advance by all and function in such a way that the spectator-viewer can
identify them, here the same set of rules is presented to the spectator-viewer
against the back-ground of a different philosophical notion: there is no single
purpose...” (in Art Press, June
1997)
A
new video, produced and realised in Athens during the stay of the artist, will
complete the show:
Tempo -10 minutes is a video work of 10 minutes comprised in 10
parts (one minute each), filmed in different locations and points a serie of
“real time visions”, edited with no narrative line, building a new logic and
structure.
One ball, two balls and
many balls of varying nature are a recurrent figure in Tzaig’s art: they can
move in any directions, changing the rules into new possibilities of
perception.
Travel and Language
are a way for the artist to “un-map the world”, trough the narration and its
translation, to build a new structure of communication which “has the form of a
question rather than an answer”.(in the catalogue Part One, Galerie Mot&
Van den Boogaard, Brussels)
Tzaig’s
nomadism allows him to redefine each
specific encounter with the world, familiar mode of perception are broken and
an open interpretation is introduced in their place.
In 1997 Uri Tzaig has exhibited in Slovenija (Museum of
Modern Art, Ljublijana), in France (Le Creux de l’Enfer, Art Center, Thiers and
“Connexions Implicites” , Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris), in San Francisco
(Refusalon gallery), in Belgium (Museum of Modern Art, Antwerpen and Galerie
Moot&Van Den Boogaard, Brussel), at the Venice Biennale (Guest of the french
artist Fabrice Hybert and Venice Biennale 1995), the Documenta X (Kassel,
Germany), the Kwangiu Biennale (South Korea) and in Luxembourg (Gallery Erna
Hecey).
He
also published Re--experience (catalogue
published for the Manifesta 1,
1996), The Universal Square (book
published for the 95 Venice Biennale)
and The Story Teller (book published
by the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, 1994).