Gazing: Online Viewing Room

Gazing Online Viewing Room Daniel Enkaoua

Gazing: Online Viewing Room March, 2021.

Catalogue editors: Orit Ephrat-Moscovitz and Moria Bachar Measurements are given in centimeters, height x length

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Participating artists: Daniel Enkaoua, Maya Bloch, Michele Bubacco, Itamar Freed, and Dana Pakman

Gazing: Group Exhibition The works in this exhibition depicts various gazing propositions starting from the gaze of the artists to the gazing of the subjects up to the viewers’ gazing creating a cross-over between the boundaries of art and reality. Participating artists: Daniel Enkaoua, Maya Bloch, Michele Bubacco, Itamar Freed, and Dana Pakman.

“If thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee” — Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil.

Examining “the gaze,” or rather, the way we look at a subject, and how a subject looks back at us, remains one of the most intriguing ways to understand an artwork’s narrative. The Mona Lisa’s enigmatic, direct gaze at the viewer and Vermeer’s female subjects’ lonely, diverted eyes have captivated art historians for centuries.

Michel Foucault examines the peculiar function of the gaze in “Las Meninas” and argues that the ensuing relationship between the gaze of the spectator and the gaze of the painting break down the usual binary nature of the gaze (i.e. between viewer/gaze and viewed/gaze). In this painting, the spectator himself becomes the subject of the painting, captured by the gaze of the painter insofar as he remains a spectator gazing at the painting. As the spectator thus becomes part of the spectacle the “observer and the observed take part in a ceaseless exchange. The communication between the two gazes blurs the boundaries between the two roles until it becomes unclear who exactly is gazing at whom; the gaze becomes a mode of interaction between spectator and the work of art.

< Itamar Freed, Girl II, 2016

nkjet pigment print on archival paper 165 x 110 For inquiries please click here

< Dana Pakman, Cocoon, 2020, Acrylic and pastel on paper 61 x 46

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< Dana Pakman, Onlooker, 2020 Acrylic and graphite on paper 61 x 46 For inquiries please click here

Maya Bloch, Untitled (Einat), 2014 Acrylic on canvas 150 x 140 cm For inquiries please click here

Michele Bubacoo, Ballerina, 2009 Oil on canvas 125 x 99 cm For inquiries please click here

< Itamar Freed, Golden Wreath Wattle, 2015 Inkjet pigment print on archival paper 110 x 160 For inquiries please click here

Itamar Freed, Girl in Pine, 2015 Inkjet pigment print on archival paper 110 x 160 For inquiries please click here

Daniel Enkaoua, Liel en jaune, 2015-16 Oil on canvas 26.4 x 25 For inquiries please click here

Itamar Freed, Woman in Green 2016 Inkjet pigment print on archival paper 110 x 110 For inquiries please click here

Daniel Enkaoua, Portrait de Aure en jaune clair, 2019-20 Oil on canvas 75 x 65 For inquiries please click here

Maya Bloch, Untitled, 2011 Acrylic on canvas 102 x 72 cm For inquiries please click here

< Michele Bubacoo, Ballerina, 2015 Oil and collage on cardboard 70 x50

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Daniel Enkaoua, Natan sur le fauteuil, 2021 Oil on canvas 145 x 114 For inquiries please click here

< Daniel Enkaoua, Aure en marron vue de dos, 2021 Oil on canvas 100 x 60

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Itamar Freed, Milky Way, 2017 Inkjet pigment print on archival paper 120 x 180 For inquiries please click here

Itamar Freed, Starry Night, 2017 Inkjet pigment print on archival paper 120 x 180 For inquiries please click here

< Daniel Enkaoua, El pla del Penedes, 2015-15 Oil on canvas 205 x 290

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