- Solo exhibition by artist Laura Pinchas MyCongo

At the Tribal Art Gallery & Israeli Art
Festive opening: Friday, June 24, 2022, at 12:00
13 Center for Craftsmen St. Tel Aviv
Curators of the exhibition:
Shelley Rashkes and Nili Witztum - Artodo
For many years Laura and her family lived in the Congo, Africa. Laura as a young woman, was deeply influenced by the locals and the daily interaction with them created experiences that burned in her and became part of her.
She brought with her to Israel the clothes, traditions, local culture and perceptions of life she had accumulated during her years of stay there.
The influences from the Congo are reflected in the range of her works on display in the MYCONGO exhibition.
The name of the exhibition is derived from the rare combination in which Laura found herself. Life led her to distant lands in the wake of love, and she with sensitivity and understanding to the new situation in her life, managed to create for her and her family a life full of interest within the Israeli community and within the local community and both became the first home in her life. In her home there were regular activities that involved the locals as an integral part of life in the place, which created collaboration and mutual learning that formed the basis for her continued creation.
We met Laura in Israel at the Sculpture Studio after returning from Africa, a modest, humble, dominant and energetic woman. She won everyone's heart with great wisdom, and in her way she integrated as if she had always been here.
She began her creative journey in the field of sculpture under the guidance of sculptor David Peer.
The journey began with an attempt to find her own style and handwriting, and Laura's creative and performance ability brought her to a virtuoso and impressive level of performance.
In the process, the effects of life in Africa crystallized and shimmered in Laura.
And in the last 10 years she has created an impressive body of work characterized by individual language that is expressed in her sculptures that stand out with nobility in height and create a sense of levitation and national presence at the same time.
The fact that she was not born there did not prevent her from bringing to our districts the natural sights of the locals. Laura's connection and love for the place, allowed her to create human tissue faithful to her inner feelings.
Laura, like many 20th century creators who created series out of environmental influences or used certain materials to express themselves, began in her own way to bring to our consciousness a different lifestyle. In her works, through the series of sculptures, she tries to express the simplicity of life out of a belief that these are the elements of her private paradise, and at the same time she is interested in making the creative experience accessible to the viewer through her eyes.
The shapes that emerge under Laura?s wand are influenced by artists who have paved an innovative path in the art world like the artist Gauguin who traveled to Tahiti and exposed us to a new world of possibilities.
Laura for us is Mother Earth, Gaia in Greek mythology, creates her sculptures from the earth.
By conventional means with the help of construction and clay builds the works that grow under her hands and crystallize into authentic figures made of bronze, created in abstraction and moving away from a naturalistic depiction.
Abstraction creates a rich and deceptive world that challenges the viewer to use his imagination to fill in the blanks.
The authenticity and nobility of Laura's sculptures, which are the antithesis of the Western gaze, illustrate the primacy of humanity on the planet as if it had just been created as a person and a farm.
While the collection of sculptures merges and creates a stabilizer that simulates the story of the "Exodus" and is a reminder of a life that preceded the evolutionary evolution of humanity that went a hundred light years away from the roots of human nature and creation.
The material capitalist world has been pushed out of the tribal gallery and is being replaced by the primordial era of human nature in its incarnation.

Lock 20.7.2022

Visiting hours at the exhibition:
Tuesdays to Thursdays from 11:00 to 19:00
And on Friday and Saturday from 10:00 to 14:00

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