Peripheral ARTeries
Inbal Nissim
Open Books, 2013 - detail Painting Installation, Oil on Canvas and Ink on Paper
tempt to extract something vague out of a deep silent memory. The work has been installed twice in different architectural spaces and each time fulfilled and embodied itself again with a new assem-bling of painting. I hope to have the opportu-nity to continue implementing the endlessness of this work allowing the flexibility of the work and its search after a new life. Another series of yours that I have found very stimulating is your recent series entitled Open Books: it goes without saying that there's a clear continuity with "All is less than it is all is more"... By the way, even though this might sound as a naif question, all the pages of the books that you have painted show paintings: this suggests me a meta-art concept and reminds me some of Magritte's pieces...
Open Books, 2013 - detail Painting Installation, Oil on Canvas and Ink on Paper
kinds of moments; widely open, about to be closed, frozen in a flipping pose. Inside the books there are elements such as an upside down bowl, a bowl as a hole, black holes, interior with a snake coming throw , an altar for unclear something, an eye looking at the viewer, and especially vases.
It is true that in a way Open Books series is a natural development of All is Less Than it is All is More, the sheets of paper formed into books and the movement of the paper transformed to motion of flipping pages. In Open Books the paintings are much more concrete, they involve more elements and things are happening inside the paintings. The installation is consistent of open books in all
The vase is an ancient form, with deep relations to archaeology and art history, a containing element that can easily be cracked or shattered. I think of it as a hidden black hole for a mystery and for all that has been forgotten or wanted to be forgotten. The whole event of flipping pages is a frozen moment of 20