napoleon Sculpture

Nima Ktalav B.1980, kibbutz Ga'aton in the western Galilee Lives and works in Tel Aviv. In my work I use different mediums, including painting, drawing, paper cutouts and sculpting. I use traditional handicraft techniques in juxtaposition with computer processing and mass, industrial-like reprinting of intricate hand-drawn images. I am fascinated with the relationship between the act of intimate handiwork – a remnant of a rapidly eroding practice which holds nostalgic sentiment and faded recollections; and a new, mechanized act that stems from the original act and proceeds to replicate itself over and over again. In my deconstructive study of the human belief systems, I often use the symbolic potential of flora and fauna, especially in dogmatic, religious connotation. I try to create peculiar, detailed worlds that seduce the viewer to delve deeper. I aspire to provoke tension between elements, which generates complex and enigmatic meanings that cast the viewer's mind to distant, unfamiliar worlds, but also to the decidedly present, familiar and universal reality.