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Israel
Collage, Fabric on Paper
Size: 39.4 W x 39.4 H x 0.8 D in
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My in-laws decided to live in a kibbutz next to the border with the Gaza Strip, called Nahal-Oz. Although it is commonly said that Palestinian terror is caused by territorial occupation, Kibbutz Nahal-Oz is proof of that lie: within Israeli territory since the country's creation, to live there is to be constantly threatened. My father-in-law was shot in the fields of the kibbutz working with his tractor many times, another time they stepped on a mine going to check irrigation in the fields, and countless attacks and bombings were carried out during the years of the kibbutz's existence. The last events were digging tunnels to attack the community and attacks with missiles or mortars. When the alarm sounds, the kibbutz inhabitants have 3 seconds to enter a shelter or armoured room. A four-year-old boy, Daniel Tragerman, was killed when a mortar fired from Gaza landed next to his house in 2014. This is the routine of the farmers who live in that border community. On the other side of the border also citizens are suffering not only of war, but of the same fanatical government that exalts death as a crowning achievement. The work is a collage of fabric on a wooden frame, and on it I began to "build" the second level with pieces of envelops, letters, and recycled paper related to the kibbutz. Also a little piece of community laundry branded towel was glued on it. Finally the collage of images- also related to the place & their brave settlers- is painted with acrylic colours, India ink & colour inks, and also sealing all with silicon glue & fixative.
Original Created:2019
Subjects:Political
Multi-paneled Collage:Fabric on Paper
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:39.4 W x 39.4 H x 0.8 D in
Number of Panels:2
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Yes
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
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Ships From:Israel.
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Ricardo Lapin is a plastic artist based in Israel. He was born at Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1961. At age 16 he left to Israel at the times of Military "Junta". He began to study oil painting at age 10, and this discipline become a way of life: with more knowledge & experience, it continues till today. My Artist Statement: Art is a meeting between the individual and the universal, question marks about the human soul. I believe that the artist must reflect the "Zeitgeist" of the period he works. My own struggles and dilemmas, the culture and environment in which I live are present in every piece of work. Painting for me is my inmost protected and stable place, like a priceless shelter. Always present, since my early childhood, despite changing situations and realities. A territory that can be built and changed endlessly, a meeting place for memories, fears, desires. Within the creative process everything has existence, without a name or definition, there is place where everything is possible and can be repaired. My work is born mainly from images, the imagery nurtured by experiences, stemming from memories and dreams, mine and from my family. The artist work examines and describes the existence of man in this world, allows the brave inquiring of actual and local values . Alongside the aesthetic expression, my works seek to examine the limits of justice and freedom, the meaning of life and death in a period of spiritual loss, depression and continuing devaluation of human lives. Images come to me. As waking up from a dream, I catch them by sketching, drawing them before they escape; after that I articulate them and find new related images, in an associative process. I can perceive that many images have an aroma of oral stories, memories, family legends, secret traumas. Sometimes they arrive from mystery and remain there, even when already painted. The final work is sometimes a kind of unfinished sentence, to be filled in by the public, in many surprising ways, sometimes very far from my associations & ideas during the creative process. It's always magic and truthful for me to realize about the multiple ways of reading my work.
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