Artist: Barak Ravitz
Exhibition title: Curtain Call
Venue: Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Date: Abril 27 – June 3, 2023
Photography: Elad Sarig / all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Dvir Gallery
Curtain Call is the action that indicates the disappearance of the theatrical illusion, the final moment when the ac- tors shed their characters and surrender themselves naked to the audience.The works in the exhibition cling to two poles – the ceiling of the gallery and its floo . The space is charged with the tension between the images of the light- ing fixtures floating – almost disappearing – above, and blocks of the raw and heavy material below. The gaze moves between the two poles, and from this arrives a bowing gesture. The objects are all transient in nature. They can be rolled, folded, drained, packed. You can hold them in your hand and move them to another place when the screen goes down.
Barak Ravitz, Curtain Call, 2023, exhibition View, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv
Barak Ravitz, Curtain Call, 2023, exhibition View, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv
Barak Ravitz, Curtain Call, 2023, exhibition View, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv
Barak Ravitz, Curtain Call, 2023, exhibition View, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv
Barak Ravitz, Curtain Call, 2023, exhibition View, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv
Barak Ravitz, handle (Haworth), 2023, colored plaster, glass, variable dimensions
Barak Ravitz, handle (jar), 2023, colored plaster, glass, variable dimensions
Barak Ravitz, handle (mug), 2023, colored plaster, ceramics, variable dimensions
Barak Ravitz, handle (Versailles), 2023, colored plaster, glass, variable dimensions
Barak Ravitz, twice asgood, 2023, carton, MDF, iron paint, magnets, 51 x 62 cm, 51 x 66 cm
Barak Ravitz, twice asgood, 2023, carton, MDF, iron paint, magnets, 51 x 62 cm, 51 x 66 cm
Barak Ravitz, upper roll lower roll, 2023, roll curtain, digital print, variable dimensions
Barak Ravitz, Curtain Call, 2023, exhibition View, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv
Barak Ravitz, Curtain Call, 2023, exhibition View, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv
Barak Ravitz, downfall A2, 2023, picture of Palazzo Ducale (Venice), foamed polyurethane, dibond, 30 x 40
Barak Ravitz, downfall B2, 2023, picture of Palazzo Ducale (Venice), foamed polyurethane, dibond, 30 x 40
