Artist: Carlos Amorales
Museum of Herzelya
The “Explosion” refers to the figurative momentum of the work, but also to its intrinsic qualities. Rarely have I been impacted so strongly and so instantaneously by the sight of an artwork. With its thousands pieces of shiny black resin hanging from the ceiling, thanks to an unobtrusive wiring system, the effect of the work is powerful. The fragments are not completely still: the visitor’s eye adjusts to continues changes of angle, while the smooth surface of each piece reflects the others in variable ways. Walking around the perimeter of observation, one’s point of view changes the perception of the work, revealing the complexity of the relations of each piece with the whole. It represents a grandiose exemplification of interdependence.
Here is an excerpt from the words of the curator:
“The work is made entirely of pieces of material detached from any source or context; refractions of light and form, splinters of body and meaning. It conceals great violence, which nevertheless remains unrealized. It seems to freeze one moment in the process of explosion, a moment which oscillates between the energetic cohesion that has held all the different elements in a single body, and final scattering and loss, as in the supernova effect where a massive star explodes because the internal pressure caused by nuclear fusion outward is insufficient to balance the great pull of gravity inward. ” [curator Hadas Maor] (laurachiesa.wordpress.com)
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