Run, Horsie, run

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In this exhibition, Orit Mazurik Feiglin takes us on a journey through wide-branching art and design contexts, through past and present, onwards to the future. The artist throws off all inhibitions as she gallops on an (imaginary) horse, armed with ideas, colors, and forms retrieved from her rich, varied subconscious.

 

The exhibition’s inception was an idea based on museum souvenir shops which sell commercial art and design objects; in contrast to such shops, Orit strives to extract items from their functionality to provide them with new life as art.

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Her engagement in change, metamorphosis, deconstruction and reconstruction is reflected in her integration and mixture of techniques such as 3-D printing, painting, sculpture and graphics which all connect into an elegant eclecticism moving between design, art, and communication and advertising media. Thus Mazurik Feiglin expresses the spirit of the postmodern era in art and design which challenges the art of the Modernism which preceded it.

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Despite the artworks’ similarities and shared origin in a distinct cultural context, Orit’s language of images is unique. The exhibition features horses, wooden sculptures, handbags, a chair and modular objects. The “Horses” series brings the artist back to her childhood, creating an encounter in the present with a sculpture imbued with the same experiential feeling. The modular carpet, like the mandalas, are the outcome of the deconstruction and reconstruction whose design is dominated by motifs from nature, while the series of wood sculptures present a narrative of a powerful, rooted, Israeli identity.

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September 23 - Solo exhibition at Periscope Gallery in Tel Aviv