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Email PageManuscripts & Parchments: Works of the Eighties
October 25, 2007- December 1, 2007
Reception: October 25, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Dina Recanati
Flomenhaft
547 W 27th StAs Plato wrote,” Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.” Surely, Dina Recanati has the uncanny ability to wed with grace her unconscious and conscious states. And with great simplicity, she conveys a mood that also clearly evidences her vulnerability. In the selections on view of the “Eighties,” which occupy a special enclave in her development, she engages the viewers in a sensory communication with the incomprehensible. She has continued to challenge herself by creating works in a variety of materials, sometimes fragments of materials and often reused materials that defy extinction. Whereas in this period many works are of metal, most are of wood, usually rigid and resistant to shaping. But Recanati is a fighter. She wet the wood and worked it until under her skilled hands it was shaped to her needs.
Striking wall works of disjunctive elements are neither paintings nor sculpture but rather object-art that call attention to new spatial relationships. Her sculptures offer multiple implications. They are slightly bent, reminding us of the passing of time. As if made of paper, the wood is twisted and torn as Dina’s life was torn from her own roots many times. Finally one cannot escape the conclusion that books as objects, made of wood veneer, were natural subjects for Recanati. In ice blue tones, often with reds that heighten the chromatic effect, they have endured 25 years. With an unalloyed purity, books record for posterity lives lived, their memories, triumphs and vulnerabilities. Books engage a reader since one can be submerged in their fictions or facts, transcending life, releasing fantasies so essential since childhood, and in the reading we give our fantasies free reign. The daring of Recanati’s works cannot be minimized and the Flomenhaft Gallery is extremely proud to exhibit Dina’s works from the “Eighties.”
Dina Recanati was born in Cairo, Egypt, and now lives in New York City and Hertzeliah, Israel. Her art is in the collection of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, the Jewish Museum in New York City, and many other fine collections throughout the world. Her commissions include the gates at the Israel Cultural Foundation in New York, the gate at the Ministry of Transportation in Israel, and work for the President’s Garden Collection in Jerusalem.
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