Barak Ravitz at Dvir Gallery

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, 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, upper roll lower roll, 2023, roll curtain, digital print, variable dimensions

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