Factory

Artists: 22quadrat (Denis Vidinski and Patrick Voigt), Angela Klein, Anna Okrasko, Bill Vorn, David Sherry, Ger Ger, Hadas Hasid, Hadas Ophrat, Karolina Freino, Michal Naaman, Nadav Assor and Daniel Davidovsky, Noam Toran and Onkar Kular, PEMA (David Behar Perahia, Caterina Margherita), Dorota Buczkowska, Rakefet Viner Omer, sh.Pixel (Dani Bacon, Ben Benhorin and Hovav Oppenheim), Shay Id Alony, Shelly Federman and Kerem Halbrecht, Szpilman Group (Patrick Koch and Tina Kohlmann) and Szpilman Award Winners (Catrin Bolt, Martin Flemming), Wojciech Gilewicz, Yom Gagatzi (Ohad Fishof, Uri Katzenstein, Binya Reches), Yonatan Shilo and Dana Yoeli

 

Co curator: Milana Gitzin Adiram

FACTORY offered a contemporary stance on the relations between artistic and industrial production while critically examining the relations between public and private space and the meanings and possibilities of artistic action within these realms. FACTORY brings to the surface the critical tension that resides in the production processes of different art practices (video, sound, installation, performance, etc.) between the live event, concrete artifacts, and their display and consumption. The exhibition’s theme was inspired by Andy Warhol’s famous studio, which during the 1960s carried diverse functions – a gathering place for the New York bohemia, a site in which both superstars and marginal characters dwelled, a place that had shaped the public and artistic persona of Warhol and his companions while functioning as an artist’s studio in the full sense of the word, generating artistic production in various mediums.

The sculptural objects are made of leatherette sheets stretched over wooden supports. Using his fingernails, Goldstein scraped and plucked the upper plastic layer of these sheets, exposing their white fabric lining. The white cloths become a background for large suggestive, colorful stains with plucked rims, which seemed like stretched skins. The artificiality and decorativeness have gained a preserving effect.

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