Beschrijving
Tekst: Meirav Rahat
Uitvoering: Paperback
Aantal pagina’s: 320
Illustraties: Kleur en zwart-wit
Uitgever: Yaakov Kaufman
Taal: Engels
Staat: Nieuw
Catalogus bij de tentoonstelling in de Periscope Gallery, Tel Aviv, 2015
Israeli industrial designer Yaacov Kaufman is noted for work that evokes a sense of dealing with “ready-made”. In fact, he creates each piece as part of a study of nuances – an embodiment of his search for simplicity and abstraction through minimal intervention. Each of his pieces of wood, metal, glass, and other miscellaneous materials is endowed with an individual identity and anthropomorphic qualities, implying a historical and archaeological tradition dating to prehistory. The figurines seem to be ritualistic talismans or shamanistic objects, and thus begin to take on lives of their own. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of Kaufman’s intriguing figurines in Tel Aviv.
