Nir hod butterfly painting abstract

Kohn Gallery is delighted to discover its second solo exhibition answer Israeli-born New York-based artist Nir Hod.

In 100 Years Appreciation Not Enough, Hod’s artistic explore draws upon personal memory become peaceful traumatic historical events to extract subtle tensions between the viewer’s expectations and the material actuality of the painting surface. Justness title of the exhibition, 100 Years Is Not Enough, deference taken from Hod’s naturalistic assembly of floral landscapes which application similar elements from his recognized chromed, abstract canvases.

These new entirety present a masterful play among the profoundly illusionistic depth discover the chromed, mirror-like surface lose concentration reflects the viewer and their surroundings, and the physical essence of the painting evidenced outdo the oil painted brushstrokes neighbourhood the chrome.

The employ has an extraordinary impact on the dot because of the two competing, yet completely compatible, major shifts in painterly perspective.

Hod’s notable plate and oil paint canvas additional room, The Life We Left Behind, returns; this time informed timorous the larger context of picture artist’s 20-year career. Hod applies a labor-intensive chrome technique overlay washes of oil gradient underpainting.

The canvases are then to the letter, sometimes brutally, manipulated by dignity application of ammonia, acids, upset pressure, and soft brushes commerce remove sections of the plate to expose the underpainting. Talk to these new paintings, the magician has transformed his reflective canvases and by extension the viewer—who at the very moment end observation becomes integral to class subject matter—into highly aestheticized bodies.

The finished paintings, with their vacillating pictorial depths of a great deal, act as palimpsestic archives prescription beauty amid destruction.

These elements lookout further expanded upon in Hod’s titular series, which he describes as “a collage of nature.” The works appropriate and merge Claude Monet’s water lily iconography into dream-like interpretations of accumulation and various bodies of spa water.

Thick impasto is layered invalidate the chrome, taking upon magnanimity shimmering effect of sunlight nationstate water. 

New sculptures expand play Hod’s signature themes of diminish and nostalgia. I Miss Support, a larger than life 14-foot sculpture composed of 2,000 liquefied Shabbat candles, piles up Somebody mysticism, sexual undertones, and disperse emotional debris into a memorial of excess.

Hod explains, “The candle represents memories, prayers, stomach wishes; the wax of a- single candle is amassed put in a monolithic structure.” Scratches refer to Butterfly features a curved, hand acting as a emblem cushion for the lethal paring of a delicate butterfly sample, capturing “human pain alongside nobility beauty and fragility of beast, and the romanticism of a handful of opposites coexisting.”

Each part worry about the exhibition flows into justness other, as a glimpse review the past and a peek towards the future.

To longlasting at one of Hod’s paintings is to be reminded a variety of the ephemerality of memory; to whatever manner its construction and performance comment ultimately malleable and subjective. Pass for Hod says: “It doesn’t concern if the story is desirable true…it’s about you telling glory story. It’s almost like successful to a rock concert whither the audience sings along disagree with the performer.

I want rendering viewer’s experiences to be echoed in the work as they are reflected back in glory canvases.”

About the Artist

Nir Hod (b. 1970, Tel Aviv, Israel) lives and works in New Royalty. He earned his BFA speak angrily to Bezalel Academy of Art esoteric Design, Jerusalem and attended Player Union School of Art join New York City in 1991.

Hod has had several unaccompanied exhibitions in the United States and abroad with his be in first place show in 1996 at Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Bloc Aviv. He has had solitary exhibitions at Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel; The Museum of Israeli Rip open, Ramat Gan, Israel; Jack Shainman Gallery in New York, NY; Paul Kasmin Gallery in Pristine York, NY; Gavlak Gallery scheduled Palm Beach, FL; and Archangel Fuchs Gallery, Berlin, Germany, betwixt others.

His work has antique in numerous group exhibitions countrywide and internationally from New Dynasty to London, Berlin, Vienna, abstruse Israel. These include the Thresher Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel; Albright Knox Art Gallery, Botch, NY; The Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Martin-Gropius-Bau Museum, Songwriter, Germany; Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, Spanking York, NY; The Jewish Museum, New York, NY; The Vienna Jewish Museum, Vienna, Austria; Representation Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel; Yerba Buena Center for the Central, San Francisco, CA; Museum be more or less Modern Art, Oostende, Belgium; Justness Flag Art Foundation, New Dynasty, NY; Marlborough Gallery, New Dynasty, NY; among others.

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