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January 30, 2012, Previews

Moshé Elimelech: Arrangements

Tue, Jan 31, 2012

Elimelech employs a designers eye to grids of beautifully hand-painted three-dimensional cubes or, Arrangements. Opens February 5 at LA Artcore Union Center For The Arts.

Moshé Elimelech: Arrangements
Each of the painted-structures on exhibit display an array of visual combinations; each painting comprised of a grid of cubes with all six sides of each cube painted with different application. The works are positioned in a sectioned, recessed frame with only one facet of each cube visible at any one time, awaiting the kinetic action and manipulation of a third-party.

Elimelech employs a designers eye to grids of beautifully hand-painted three-dimensional cubes or, Arrangements. The basic structural clarity of these pieces make way for an exploration of thought, chance and vast optic alternatives. As critic Peter Frank describes in the forthcoming monograph titled Moshé Elimelech: Reflections and Arrangements, “Elimelech also draws on the ready, rather than spectacular, involvement of the audience in the process of discovery and play into which Op and Kinetic Art characteristically brings us.”

The sixty-page book will include photographed works of Elimelech’s watercolors, arrangements, and installations with an introduction by Peter Frank on geometricism, choreography and the play of logic in Elimelech’s work. LA ArtCore will be selling the book during Elimelech's exhibition.

Frank adds, “Astute viewers will observe that, for all the brittle modernity that apparently attends to Elimelech’s work, he is in fact something of a traditionalist. The “modernity” he practices is rooted not in latter-day stylistic indulgences, but in the integral concepts of design we associate with a modernity older than we are.”

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