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"... my imagination fills that space, that landscape, with things that I've never seen or places where I've never been."
Zadok Ben David
I would say that since 1985, Zadok Ben-David's sculptures live themselves, their situations, with a vitality and freshness which I have not seen before, neither in Israeli sculpture nor in European sculpture. It would seem that the Ben-Davidian experience has begun repaying in astounding instalments the promissory notes of the sum-total of its rite of
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apprenticeship, with the chutzpah possible only for an artist who is at one and the same time both an outsider and an insider.
The colourfulness of these sculptures is direct, functional for the psyche of the object. The colours show no hesitancy - they gleam, they are strong, phosphorescent, fields of colour that move away from the wall into a floating space and transmit something like great gleams and sparks to the spectator's retina."
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Beside the rough earth colours, there are the other strong Middle-Eastern colours, absolute colours like red, yellow, blue, brown and black. Zadok Ben-David sees colour not only as a
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visual choice, but: also as a "spiritual" choice, one which charges the sculpture with at ' least the same effect with which David Smith charged his painted sculptures like Circle II(1962) or Bec-Dida-day(1963).
The use Zadok Ben-David makes not only of the meeting of colours, but also of black, for example, is functional and almost chemical, in that he turns his material into a new sensation-element-material.
Mier Agassi
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"...animals were never really my main subject matter, the metaphorical form with which I work could have been incorporated into any object - as equally in animals as anything else.
My approach now employs symbols which relate to nature. Magnets have a very human aspect which I am trying to portray in my work (see 'Magnetic Fields I, II and III' above). Also, magnets attract and repel and this is a characteristic which I want to show. These works are also partly based on the properties of lenses and light - things which you can see through, which reverse a figure and then reverse
it again."
Zadok Ben David
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