Sale: Auction 150 Date of sale: 06.07.2013 Item: 178
Eran Reshef
Pink cabinet, 1998-1999, Oil on board, 234X185 cm. Signed and dated. Literature & Exhibition: Eran Reshef, 2000-2010, Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Varda Steinlauf, June 2011 – September 2011, p. 6 (Illustrated). The enormous painting of the bath tub combines a clean towel, very modern in its synthetic colors, to an old, very cracked tub that nests on a floor which due to age, is close to collapse. Strips of old adhesive from items that were stripped off, or were stuck on, are very prominent. A small cupboard, newly painted pink, hangs over the tub, but two lines of rust descend along its edges on the stained wall. The open cupboard is a small sign of life, evidence of its use in the present, as the clean towel and the sponge floating in the bath water are emissaries of the person living in the house, as if they are items floating with difficulty on the masses sinking into the chasm of decay and disintegration. The precise and extremely sensitive design of these decadent details is the story of the painting; what is frozen is not the illusion of reality, but the illusion of stopping time, and this in turn reveals the galloping force of time and decay that permeates everything. Something of the quality of Vanitas – from the Baroque era – is to be found here, but without the moralistic, finger floating above, warning of Memento Mori. Reshef is not the preacher at the gate, rather he observes and appeals to others to observe as well. There is much pessimism and deep melancholy in his view, but no solution, no way out. No fetishistic pleasure is taken in the items which are growing old before his eyes. He has a certain soberness that lays bare the anatomy of the decay, without giving it any kind of pathos.
Prof. Ariel Hirschfeld.
Estimated price: $50,000 - 70,000
Sold for: 71300
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