Mirit Barkan &
Semion Dainovsky
"Lizard", bronze cast, length 60 cm.
Artists’ Statement
"We are artists not making art, but
playing a game.
Our game field is tradition, which
we fragmentize into endless
universal symbols. These symbols
became our materia prima. Thus,
by playing a dice game with
symbols we create a kaleidoscopic
image, discovering in this way that
casualness creates a new
complex image, an image that can
be understood as a new icon
speaking in a universal language.
Our source is our cultural, national
environment, and the result is a
statement to which every reader
can give a meaning, regardless of
his or her cultural background.
We analyze the process of
fragmentation and re-construction,
casualness being its engine, thus
seeing the generation of a cultural
fractal which represents a given
moment, but could go on
developing forever."
Mirit Barkan & Semion Dainovsky
"Kaleidoscope Series", all oil on canvas, 100
x 70 cm.
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