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Yofi
14
November
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15
January
2007
"Yofi" is the
title of an exciting new show at London's Flow
Gallery, located in the heart of Notting Hill. "Yofi"
show cases the work of 15 leading Israeli jewellers
and ceramicists and offers the opportunity for many
of them to show their work for the first time in the
UK.
The Hebrew word "yofi"
formally translates as "beauty" and there is much to
delight the aesthetic senses across both
disciplines; from the breadth of materials used by
the jewellers such as glass and textiles, to the
expressiveness of the ceramic pieces.
"Yofi"
is a celebration of Israel's vibrant creativity and
its ability to communicate beyond cultural and
physical barriers. The artists' inspiration is drawn
from many sources and cultural backgrounds. For
example, Sara Shahak casts silver and gold jewellery
to resemble lace and knitted motifs inspired by her
Greek mother's lace making and embroidery.
Irit Abba
deftly plays with the fragile, textural and
translucent qualities of porcelain to produce
graceful thrown pots reminiscent of Scandinavian
aesthetic.
Whilst Michal Zehavi
investigates the tensions between creation and
disintegration, producing ceramic pieces whose
organic forms are frozen at the instance before they
collapse.
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| Michal Zehavi |
Einat Cohen
seeks to create functional ceramic objects with a
sculptural quality, drawing inspiration from the
marine life of the Red Sea.
Humour plays an
important part in
Stella Lahav's
ceramics, where her pieces juggle between the
functional and the asymmetric almost figurative
coffee pots.
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Stella Lahav
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Anat
Bar-El's wall mounted
pieces in white clay use texture and perspective to
eloquently portray the interplay of public and
personal spaces, based on her experiences living in
Jerusalem.
Rory
Hooper's work is
likewise highly evocative; his jewellery conveys the
notion of memory.
The colourful
glass bead jewellery made by
Nirit Dekel,
is full of vitality; each bead an individual, with
its own energy and personality.
Anat Gelbard has
developed her jewellery through an exhaustive
exploration of felt making techniques and created
beautiful understated organic pieces.
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Anat Gelbard |
Well established in both the fashion
and jewellery worlds, Galya Rosenfeld
also draws on textile techniques to make her fluid,
modular, woven jewellery.
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Galya Rosenfeld |
The jewellery of Noa Goren-Amir
cleverly plays with the contradiction of
translating complex winding lines into elegant
three dimensional pieces. Her work is inspired
by light and motion.
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Noa Goren-Amir |
Michal Oren
draws her inspiration from simple geometric
forms and delicate lines. By duplicating,
tilting and combining those forms in
unpredictable ways she creates objects that hold
tension as lines in space, while on the other
respond to body curvature and to movement.
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Michal Oren |
Shirley-Bar-Amortz is
overtly political in her fine gold brooches with
line drawings of war planes.
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Shirley-Bar-Amortz |
Kobi Roth
derives his inspiration from memories, old toys,
emotions, recollections of childhood. These
affect my work through their abstract-poetic
values as their instinctive impact.
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| Kobi Roth |
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