BROADWAY GALLERY
46 MERCER ST 7TH FL, NEW YORK NY 10013 T: 212.274.8993 F: 212.226.3400
*For Immediate Release*
We are pleased to announce the solo exhibition of
Uri Dotan: "Double Vision"
June 2 – June 23, 2001
**OPENING RECEPTION: SATURDAY, JUNE 2 (6 –8 pm)**
This solo exhibition of Uri Dotan, consists of a large-scale video
projection, a web-based work (www.double-visionorg), digital prints,
documentation from performance art work, and sculptural images. The works
as
a whole investigate the tension and the relationships that potentially exist
between the real and the virtual worlds. Moving past the framework of art
as
a singular discipline, the artist forms photographic images out of his
electronic spaces, composed from multiple sources. He has been greatly
influenced by the interactive structure of the city, similar in nature to
the
digital matrix.
Dotan has been adventuring into cyberspace for some time now, and has
emerged
with a tomb. The metaphor of the tomb is appropriate for the contemporary
location of space. Dotan’s tomb is taken from a design by his grandfather,
the acclaimed architect Leopold Krakauer for the Rothschild Mausoleum. The
minimalist plan is composed of three non-concentric circles, creating a
lyrical structure in place of stasis.
The tomb as a container of information, data storage…Memory, experience,
collected emotions, visual links as a kind of memory archive or
collection…Thoughts occurring within the synapses of the brain interweave in
a web of possibilities.
"Perhaps no other aspect of the new technologies has opened such a
wide-ranging set of investigations as the advent of virtual environments and
on-line matrices, with their recalibrations of physicality and seemingly
soundless realms. It is obviously important to discuss how we explore these
realms, but this is a different sort of exploration than the far-flung sort
offered by Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus, and Sally Ride. Instead,
consider the meander. It involves the pursuit of less grandiose dreams; it
is the exploration that goes on almost in spite of itself."
[--Peter Lunenfeld, "Unfinished Business"]
http://www.double-vision.org/
