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Maya Cohen Levy “Traces and Shadows”
Hagiso
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Maya Cohen Levy
Maya Cohen Levy is a prominent Israeli artist that created her own unique path, and is consistently attracting interest within the Israeli Art Scene.
Her affinity with Japan began rather early, after graduating her Art studies in Israel, attracted by its philosophy and aesthetics, she came to study Sumi-e in Japan, and the leaf-like brush strokes which culminated into ‘peeled photographs’, a technique developed by Cohen Levy. She actually peels with a knife the thin emulsion surface of the photograph and reveals the white paper underneath. The leaf-like cuts play with the black and white, shades and light in the photograph and create a new rhythmic movement and a new order within a given landscape. It is a process of destruction and creation that take place simultaneously. It is a transverse process to painting. The white is being exposed so that the absence becomes present.
Her affinity with Japan began rather early, after graduating her Art studies in Israel, attracted by its philosophy and aesthetics, she came to study Sumi-e in Japan, and the leaf-like brush strokes which culminated into ‘peeled photographs’, a technique developed by Cohen Levy. She actually peels with a knife the thin emulsion surface of the photograph and reveals the white paper underneath. The leaf-like cuts play with the black and white, shades and light in the photograph and create a new rhythmic movement and a new order within a given landscape. It is a process of destruction and creation that take place simultaneously. It is a transverse process to painting. The white is being exposed so that the absence becomes present.
Schedule | Jun 2 (Fri) 2017-Jun 20 (Tue) 2017 Opening Hours Information
Opening Reception Jun 2 (Fri) 2017 19:00 - 21:00 | ||||
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| Venue | Hagiso | ||||
| Location | 3-10-25 Yanaka, Taito-ku, Tokyo 110-0001 | ||||
| Access | 5 minute walk from exit 2 at Sendagi Station on the Chiyoda line, 7 minute walk from the West exit of Nippori Station on the JR Yamanote, Keihin-Tohoku and Joban lines. | ||||
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