Exhibition
Piranesi/Shiota: Prisons of the Imagination
16 Dec 2016 – 6 May 2017
Event times
Mon, Wed, Sat 10.00-18.00
Tues, Thurs 10.00-21.00
Fri 10.00-14.00
Sun CLOSED
Cost of entry
Adult 50 NIS
Tel Aviv Resident (with Resident Card) 40 NIS
Student (with International Student Card) 40 NIS
Address
- 27 Shaul Hamelech Blvd
- Tel Aviv-Yafo
Tel Aviv District - 61332012
- Israel
The exhibition juxtaposes Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s series of prints “Carceri d’invenzione,” from ca. 1761, with Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota’s 2012 installation Stairway: a web of black threads featuring a staircase.
About
Shiota's heaped yarns create hatches and spaces reminiscent of etching and of Piranesi’s architectural fantasy spaces. The culture-dependent prisons of passion and nightmares exist in the artists’ imagination and incarcerate dreams and memories.
With heartfelt thanks to Ms. Ingrid Flick, without whose support this exhibition and catalogue would not have been possible