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Fresh Paint Art Fair 2023


Frozen Moment

Osnat Oliva, Rubin Pantofaru & Tamar Branitzky


Two Curators - Tamar Lamdan & Carmit Shine

 



Three young female artists create multi-layered works that collage several subjects and time frames. The works in the exhibition attempt to grasp the ephemeral through personal introspection.

Osnat Oliva layers of oil paints move between a figurative and abstract world. In her works she explores a number of motifs, such as still life and nude form, that are deconstructed into abstract and imaginary forms that reassemble into one surprising composition


Tamar Branitzky recreates the wild Israeli landscape. Her studio becomes a research laboratory where she processes materials she collects and creates imaginary landscapes, by layering fabrics, paper, thread and adding textures. She combines land and sea, sometimes visible above the surface and sometimes hidden beneath it. The use of delicate textiles, crisp paper and printing techniques allow for a new, original and poetic material observation, a journey through time


Rubin Pantofaru's work is a dialogue with her family legacy by creating amorphous objects made of colored glass and copper skeletons from the copper coil she inherited from her mother, a goldsmith. Every object looks smooth and lush from the outside but inside a thin and fragile crust is formed creating movement
Each artist approaches her work by choosing moments to deconstruct, inspect and reconstruct. Layers of color, texture, abstract and figurative motifs are visible and hidden, woven under and over each other. Although the moment is frozen, movement, calmness and delicacy are revealed and the works are harmonious. Frozen moments evoke memories of events, tastes, smells, visions, sounds and more.