Sefi Gal

Lives and works in Haifa District, Israel

Artist statement

The paper which ‘wrap us’ and so familiar from our daily life, is become from common, prosaic and cheap material to artistic substance for expression. Instead of recklessly use in paper and polluting the environment , The paper gets another aspect of creation that emerge from reusing. The paper material becomes an ‘independent’ while the designation is change, when it discovers a secrets, led or lead me my creation. Into my exploring and cultivating the paper material, I going with the reaction of the action it is soft when it is wet and hardens when dry, wrinkled, elastic, varied textures, smooth and rough, tearing appears as a motif and a ‘language’. Those advantages of the material are given the possibility to expose details onto the surface, to wrap a statue structure and to make sense of hollowness, or to create a full mass. Sometimes the structure is makes from wireframe or iron rods as materials in order to increase the contrast and the ‘dialog’ between the two materials. I tend to create in a large scales of reliefs and sculptures, strive for minimalism and influence by the Canaanite art. During my work in the studio, I like the sound that paper is produce The wrinkling, tearing or stretching A perfect and harmony of intoxication.

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