'Hinges and Nails'
'Hinges and Nails'
Curator: Anat Lidror
The exhibition opening on January 20 at the Collaborative Art Center, Givat Haviva, is a new solo exhibition by Adi Sened.
In this exhibition, Sened, who is known mainly as an urban artist, presents actions in the space of the gallery and around it, including painting, sculpture, installation, architectural references, movement and motion, and for the first time in his work – animation.
Sened maintains complex relationships with the "hill" ("giv'a" in Hebrew); Givat Hashlosha, the kibbutz where he was born and which his family left in his early childhood, and Givat Haviva – a conceptual, research and educational campus which is home to the Collaborative Art Center and the Peace Gallery.
Sened was active around the Givat Haviva campus last October as part of the "Under the Streetlamp" events. His marks are still present on the grounds, small in scale, unexpectedly revealing themselves to those walking along the paths.
Hinges and Nails presents Sened in his wide range – his various types of movements in space and time. With both stiff and flowing movements, one can see his Sisyphean principles and stubbornness, alongside delicacy and intimacy that attest to such sensitivity that they sometimes appear to be at the edges, like exposed (or severed) nerve cords.
The 'Kufsonim' ("box-people") – characters that Sened has been developing for almost two decades, a controlled doodling that began with the abstraction of a square from an envelope and was transformed into figures, variations and worlds – are presented alongside personal ceramic sculpture with an initial yet mature expression; polished, filled with internal spaces and "places" in which to stop for a moment. They complement his drawings that scratch at the exposed layers.
Among them are Dadaistic environments. This is sculpture containing readymade elements, but here too, Sened allows himself the freedom to move independently of the artificial division between the ready and the manipulated, between something that has been intervened in and something created from nothing.
Sened's urban art is a physical, intensive activity requiring agility, sometimes climbing or squeezing through. Between the speed of stenciling on the street and the slowness of polishing and smoothing the material, there is a desire within the movement to find a place, a nest, a relationship, a local identity, a society with ethics and social aesthetics, and to sustain it in all its complexity – personal, social, cultural and artistic.
Underlying his aspirations is "the aspiration for change and cultural development, in the dimension of time, which is based on the freedom of the spirit, thought, and criticism as a condition for achievement" (from Curbstones and Code, Sened, 2013).
He is an artist in motion, creating through movement, in space, in the street, in time and in development.
Curatorial Text
Exhibition Events
Opening: January 20, 2018
Closing: March 1, 2018
Publications
הקופסונים מתל אביב מגיעים לגבעת חביבה
'צירים ומסמרים', פעולות במרחב – תערוכה של עדי סנד
"צירים ומסמרים" – תערוכה חדשה במרכז האמנות המשותף בגבעת חביבה
A Glimpse into the Exhibition
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