He has recreated the ancient painting by taking largescale photographs of elaborate floral arrangements. Ori gersht the clearing ori gersht, ori gersht, steven bode, jeremy millar on. The artist s market and biography, and their works prices and indices. This display featured works by the londonbased israeli artist ori gersht, including daily screenings of his thirteenminute video the forest. This richly illustrated book presents the best of gershts achingly beautiful images, and explores how he intertwines spectacles of painterly and narrative imagery with personal and collective memory, metaphysical journeys, contextualized. Israeli artist ori gersht will get in your face and make. He often adopts a poetic, metaphorical approach to explore the difficulties of visually representing conflict and violent events or histories. Together they create a seamless visual narrative and an insight into the mind of the artist. The video installation big bang 2006, featuring a flower arrangement exploding in slow motion, was seen on the centers second floor.
Israeli artist ori gersht could have just photographed flowers against a dark background, based upon a 19th century stilllife painting by henri fantinlatour. Prices at auctions for photography artworks by ori gersht. The artist ori gersht spent last winter videoing a wood in ukraine. This elegant, beautifully illustrated publication presents three ambitious new series of works by the israeliborn. Will you dance for me depicts an 85yearold dancer swaying back and forth in a rocking chair, slowly recounting her experiences as a young woman in. Dec 20, 2005 the artist ori gersht spent last winter videoing a wood in ukraine. These photographs of mirrors splitting into shards while being electrocuted while also reflecting silk flower bouquets yes, you read that right may be the coolest thing ive ever seen. Ori gersht 1967 is an artist born in 1967 the oldest auction result ever registered on the website for an artwork by this artist is a photography sold in 2004, at sothebys, and the most recent auction result is a photography sold in 2020. From lynda bengliss abstract expressionism in wakefield to ori gershts haunting photographs and films in london, find out whats happening in art around the country.
While benjamin used words to explore and communicate his ideas, gersht uses photography and film. Ronni baer a conversation with ori gersht artist book 2012. Ori gershts practice bridges places and histories full of traumas, whether it is a hill overlooking an arab settlement at a contested border in israel, wartorn buildings in sarajevo, the white noise of his train journey to auschwitz, or the clearing of trees in a forest that once stood witness to mass murder in the ukraine. Israeli filmmaker ori gersht s artist book is pretty much exactly that. Nov 07, 2019 the stimuli consisted in color digital works of art created by the contemporary artist ori gersht.
Ori gersht, blow up the eye of photography magazine. Israeli filmmaker ori gershts artist book is pretty much exactly that. Hence, stimuli were not reproductions, but real digital artistic productions. Call to undefined function get in nfsc09h02mnt3670domainshtmlwpcontentthemescrgwebsitetemplate artist. Still life photographers who give a fresh meaning to. The work of israeli photographer and video artist ori gersht is the subject of a major exhibition at bostons museum of fine arts, and this lavishly printed catalog accompanies the show. Over the course of his successful, fifteenyear career, ori gershts interests have included history and metaphor, journeys and geographical places, and the constant intertwining of metaphysical space into his subject matter. Ori gershts history repeating, the israeliborn artists first museum survey show, explores the idea of landscape as a witness to history. Ori gersht, limited edition of boxed sets each comprising three hardback books and one softback text by robert rowland smith in a foil embossed effalin slip cover exquistely produced evening standarda lovely object. It is instead a threevolume companion piece to gersht s films, evaders, will you dance for me, and offering. Force of naturesfilm and photography, the evolution of the artists basic process is explored in a series of powerfully expressive fullcolor photographs. Gersht, recognized among the worlds greatest living photographers, is an artist with exceptional skill and vision.
Mar 11, 2012 artist book is a actually a limitededition collection of three small volumes, which are part sketch book, part storyboard and part souvenir of the films now showing in the israeli artist ori. Artist book is a actually a limitededition collection of three small volumes, which are part sketch book, part storyboard and part souvenir of the films now showing in the israeli artist ori. Israeli artist ori gersht will get in your face and make you ecstatic. Ori gersht recreates still lifes, lovely floral arrangements inspired by the flower paintings of. The exhibition will feature a new series of photographs in which the artist has captured the dynamic explosion of mirrored glass reflecting meticulously rendered floral stilllifes, resulting in a poignant and evocative group of photographs that are at. In this relationship between past and present, painting and photograph, ori gersht captures the exact moment at which beautiful flowers are violently. Sign up with your email address to receive news and updates. Israeli art star ori gersht joins las kohn gallery observer. Like benjamin, ori gersht is a jewish intellectual who thinks about time, violence, and reality. It is instead a threevolume companion piece to gershts films, evaders, will you dance for me, and offering. Ben brown fine arts is honoured to present for the first time in hong kong a solo exhibition of acclaimed photographer ori gersht. An intimate story of what it means to be human 4th estate, 2018.
Time, violence, and reality through ori gershts camera. History repeating published by lund humphries in association with the museum of fine arts, boston, is the most comprehensi. Over the course of his activity, the interests of ori gersht have incorporated history and metaphor, history of trauma, and the constant intertwining of metaphysical space into his subje. Description the first comprehensive survey of the photographs, films, and videos of ori gersht, this richly illustrated book presents the best of gershts achingly beautiful work and explores how he intertwines spectacles of painterly and narrative imagery with personal and collective memory, metaphysical journeys, contextualized spaces, and the history of art and photography. Ori gersht, limited edition of boxed sets each comprising three hardback books and one softback text by robert rowland smith in a foil. Ori gersht is conceived by the artist as a piece of work in its own right, composed of three volumes, each taking a separate gersht film work as its subject. The people around me remained silent, busy focusing on the still life image of flowers being. Between 2006 and 2008, israeliborn artist ori gersht created traditional stilllife arrangements with real fruit or flowersand then literally blew them up, capturing it all on video. And, at the same time, the beauty of destruction, or destruction as a creative resource.
His subtle, quietly beautiful photographs and videos taken in bosnia, auschwitz, ukraine, and hiroshima infuse seemingly normal landscapes with an eerie aura that. Instead, he decided to blow them up and capture the very moment of their destruction, evoking a. This richly illustrated book presents the best of gershts achingly beautiful images, and explores. The result is a delicate dissolution of form, transforming these symbols of strength into images of fragile beauty. History repeating published by lund humphries in association with the museum of fine arts, boston, is the. From page to page they combine with gershts own drawings, sketches, photographs and works from his wider portfolio that he considers relevant to these final film works. Each edition comprises three signed hardback books, one softback book and two signed and numbered prints. This richly illustrated book presents the best of gersht s achingly beautiful images, and explores how he intertwines spectacles of painterly and narrative imagery with personal and collective memory, metaphysical journeys, contextualized spaces and. This richly illustrated and enhanced ebook explores how ori gersht intertwines the latest digital technology with historical sources as diverse as 19thcentury romantic landscape painting and the holocaust to create his achingly beautiful photographs and videos. Ori gersht is a contemporary israeli photographer and video artist. Artist ori gersht has been inspired by a 19thcentury painting by henri fantinlatour. Artist ori gersht talks about his new book history repeating. This artists book is composed of three volumes, each taking a separate gersht film work as its subject.
Sep 01, 2012 history repeating is the first comprehensive survey of the israeliborn photographer and video artist ori gersht born 1967. All three film works disguise dark and complex themes beneath seductive or hypnotic imagery. Photographer and video artist ori gersht turns his lens on sites of collective trauma, risultati immagini per ori gersht still life ori gersht is an israeli artist and is a professor of photography at the university for the creative arts in rochester, kent, england. Searching for traces of the past, gersht translates the process of remembering into images. Gersht has become wellknown over the past decade for his. His books include derrida and autobiography cambridge university press, 1995, breakfast with socrates. The stimuli consisted in color digital works of art created by the contemporary artist ori gersht. From his multilevel studio in london, ori gersht talks about his analogue and digital photography practice, the influence of painting on his work, and some ephemeral and surprising stilllife films. Find an indepth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. This article is printed from photoeye magazine and is intended for personal use. Robert rowland smith is a british author and philosopher. In his exhibition at the tel aviv museum of art, gersht blends ecstasy and vulgarity in a way that is almost daring.
Find the latest shows, biography, and artworks for sale by ori gersht. Santa barbara museum of art, santa barbara, usa, isbn 9780899511122 essays included in this publication. In addition to 85 illustrations and 14 video clips of his art, it features original footage of the artist discussing his. Photographer and video artist ori gersht turns his lens on sites of collective trauma, remembrance and amnesia are prevailing themes in londonbased artist ori gershts historicallycharged landscape and still life. Ori gersht discusses his photoworks publication artist book.
Over the course of his successful, fifteenyear career, ori gersht s interests have included history and metaphor, journeys and geographical places, and the constant intertwining of metaphysical space into his subject matter. His work hinges heavily on historical reference used as metaphors for contemporary life, with series spanning such themes as dutch still life painting, romantic landscapes, and nazioccupied territory escape routes in the pyrenees. This richly illustrated book presents the best of gersht s achingly beautiful images, and explores how he intertwines spectacles of painterly and narrative imagery with personal and collective memory, metaphysical journeys, contextualized spaces and the history of art. Ori gersht was born in israel in 1967, but has lived in london for over 30 years. Photograher ori gersht is widely known for his destruction and subsequent documentation of floral arrangements but in this series gersht introduces an added layer of manipulation. The first comprehensive survey of this upandcoming israeliborn photographer and video artist, this richly illustrated book presents the best of gershts achingly. Ori gersht is conceived by the artist as a piece of work in its own right, composed of three volumes, each taking a separate gersht film work as its. Adrian searle discovers the terrible story behind it. The artist himself selected eight digital works of art, considered by him the best ones for the aim of the study. These small and intimate books reflect on the creative thought process behind the making of each film. This richly illustrated book presents the best of gershts achingly beautiful images, and explores how he intertwines spectacles of painterly and narrative imagery with personal and collective memory, metaphysical journeys, contextualized spaces and the. The three central works each disguise dark and complex themes beneath seductive, beautiful. Photographer and video artist ori gersht turns his lens on sites of collective trauma, violence, and loss, examining the powers of time and landscape to preserve and erase history.
Artist ori gersht talks about his new book history. See available photographs, prints and multiples, and installation for sale and learn about the artist. Over the course of his activity, the interests of ori gersht have incorporated history and metaphor, history of trauma, and the constant intertwining of metaphysical space into his subject matter. Throughout his career his work has been concerned with the relationships between history, memory and landscape. Artist book is a actually a limitededition collection of three small volumes, which are part sketch book, part storyboard and part souvenir of. Each volume combines sources that have influenced gersht including film stills, screen grabs, music videos and art historical paintings. The philosophy of everyday life profile books, 2009, and autobiophilosophy.