'Heritage' an art exhibition by Israeli artist & designer David Schocken at Instituto Cervantes, 48, Hanuman Road, Connaught Place (CP) > 14th to 30th June 2014

Time : 
14th June : 7:00 pm - Opening
15th to 30th June : 11:00 am to 7:00 pm Add to Calendar 15-06-2014 11:00:00 30-06-2014 19:00:00 68 'Heritage' an art exhibition by Israeli artist & designer David Schocken Event Page : http://goo.gl/oGJVBC Instituto Cervantes, 48, Hanuman Road, Connaught Place (CP), New Delhi - 110001 DD/MM/YYYY   - Exhibition on View

Entry : Free

Place : Instituto Cervantes, 48, Hanuman Road, Connaught Place (CP), New Delhi - 110001
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Metro : Nearest Metro Station - 'Rajiv Chowk' (Yellow Line and Blue Line)
Area : Connaught Place (CP)

Event Description : The Embassy of Israel & The Instituto Cervantes presents the art exhibition 'Heritage' by Israeli artist and designer David Schocken.

David Schocken was born and raised in Jerusalem, Israel. He graduated with honors in communication design at the Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands.
Since then he has lived and worked in Holland, Belgium, South Korea, New York and China. Since returning to Israel he has become a founding partner at Schocken+, a communication design studio based in Tel Aviv, and completed his Masters Degree of Fine Arts from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design.
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“David Schocken presents a sculptural installation made of a porcelain teapot and cup hung in the air on strings stretched between magnets; a projection of a filmed management meeting with the participants’ faces all blurred; anonymous people on escalators; walking on suspension bridge over the Ganges. In a small side room a car's reverse camera films the visitors in the central exhibition room, thus turning them into part of the exhibit. The sculpted drawings made with a delicate magnetic structure in the exhibition room along with the distance and coldness of the video artworks create a powerful juxtaposition of still life, portrait and landscape, immobility and constant movement, fixation and magnetic power.

In another video work, Schocken is seen clearing a military firing zone in the Negev, picking up rusty cans. One of those cans is hooked to the wall with magnets. Next to the can, there are piles of rusty nails collected from the remains of campfires; a gas canister covered with metal constructions; a black and white photo of a woman Schocken names "The Ultimate"; a frame with a moving LED inscription saying "Home Sweet Home ". On a small shelf cellular Sim cards are placed like aesthetic miniatures. All these are presented like mini stories with great attention to detail, stories in which all that is human is defined by objects and tools, and where relationships become drawings or in which stability is achieved through opposing poles, in a delicate formation of checks and balances always on the verge of disintegration, hung up in the air and trembling on strings.”

Galia Yahav - Back to the readymade - Haaretz 02.07.2013

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