Netally Schlosser
18 Apr - 01 Jun 2013
NETALLY SCHLOSSER
La Guardia
18 April – 1 June 2013
"La Guardia" presents Netally Schlosser's latest paintings.
This exhibition shows a glimpse of Schlosser's extensive work process, similar to the process of a continuous rewriting of a book.
La Guardia is the name of a feminine entity Schlosser imagines taking form in some of her latest works, while this figure's consciousness is the link between them, as an associative space guiding her through the creative process.
"La Guardia", taken from the name of a highway interchange in south Tel-Aviv, holds a meaning of protection in it ("Guardia" means "guardian" in Italian and Spanish), a relevant context for many of Schlosser's subjects.
Female portraiture is not a new theme in Schlosser's work, though the grotesque quality that commanded her previous portraits has appeared to vanish in this exhibition, together maybe with some of the humor in it. Yet, the compassion towards her subjects remains. The exhibition displays, with great sensitivity, a group of women looking at different directions, some stare straight at the viewer, some stare at the space outside the painting, some are her, some family or friends. Each is distinguished by a distinct and meaningful gaze.
Alongside the human portraits, paintings of migrating birds appear, whose point of view is also a key element that changes in each one of the works in this series. Their point of view (bird's-eye view) relates to Shclosser's in a metaphorical level, since she herself tends to look at her subjects from a distance, and then get closer, alternately. The tone in her works shifts between being delicate and harmonious at times and then harsh and perplexed. Fragile and powerful in the same breath.
In this exhibition Schlosser was in search for an artistic collaboration.
"A human and close addressee is the voice of the other, of society, is the space where streams of consciousness reaches society's edges. It balances the forces existing between sanity and psychic depth, allowing the intensification of the latter, and between the infinite abstract of the universe and signification."
La Guardia
18 April – 1 June 2013
"La Guardia" presents Netally Schlosser's latest paintings.
This exhibition shows a glimpse of Schlosser's extensive work process, similar to the process of a continuous rewriting of a book.
La Guardia is the name of a feminine entity Schlosser imagines taking form in some of her latest works, while this figure's consciousness is the link between them, as an associative space guiding her through the creative process.
"La Guardia", taken from the name of a highway interchange in south Tel-Aviv, holds a meaning of protection in it ("Guardia" means "guardian" in Italian and Spanish), a relevant context for many of Schlosser's subjects.
Female portraiture is not a new theme in Schlosser's work, though the grotesque quality that commanded her previous portraits has appeared to vanish in this exhibition, together maybe with some of the humor in it. Yet, the compassion towards her subjects remains. The exhibition displays, with great sensitivity, a group of women looking at different directions, some stare straight at the viewer, some stare at the space outside the painting, some are her, some family or friends. Each is distinguished by a distinct and meaningful gaze.
Alongside the human portraits, paintings of migrating birds appear, whose point of view is also a key element that changes in each one of the works in this series. Their point of view (bird's-eye view) relates to Shclosser's in a metaphorical level, since she herself tends to look at her subjects from a distance, and then get closer, alternately. The tone in her works shifts between being delicate and harmonious at times and then harsh and perplexed. Fragile and powerful in the same breath.
In this exhibition Schlosser was in search for an artistic collaboration.
"A human and close addressee is the voice of the other, of society, is the space where streams of consciousness reaches society's edges. It balances the forces existing between sanity and psychic depth, allowing the intensification of the latter, and between the infinite abstract of the universe and signification."