Technichybrid Sculpture: Eli Gur-Arie
My Israeli friend sent me a catalogue filled with hybrid-looking yet highly decorative creatures, along with an unfamiliar name: Eli Gur-Arie.
A folded shark, a mouse-faced toad, an octopus tongue (on mushroom soup)... An uncanny feeling comes from a little conflict between the fantastic presence and their high-tech finishing that resembles any computerised products at home. The consistent theme conveyed through the ambivalent combination of natural and unnatural elements is obvious and asserting. Some details, like the peeled arm of a sea star, or an exposed brain in the stomach of a frog, manifest a puncture of the deceiving vision of a "pleasant integration" of the nature and...(hmmm)...civilisation.
Adapting an appearance of a bio-laboratory, the presentation almost likens Damien Hirst's (below). The Tel-Aviv artist may be less bold and controversial in a way, but certainly he gives a more personal and eloquent touch to his creation, with a richness for vision and poetry for imagination. Thanks, Adi.
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