Moshé Elimelech
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Moshé Elimelech - Reflections and Arrangements
Charmed by an imagined world somewhere between fine-drawn aesthetics and a geometric wonderland is where the works of artist Moshé Elimelech find their audience. Reflections and Arrangements is an overview of Elimelech’s oeuvre, depicting clean, crisp compositions in each of his three preferred mediums: watercolors, groupings of sculptural cube paintings he calls Arrangements, and installation.
Beautifully photographed, this 60 page monogra...More...Charmed by an imagined world somewhere between fine-drawn aesthetics and a geometric wonderland is where the works of artist Moshé Elimelech find their audience. Reflections and Arrangements is an overview of Elimelech’s oeuvre, depicting clean, crisp compositions in each of his three preferred mediums: watercolors, groupings of sculptural cube paintings he calls Arrangements, and installation.
Beautifully photographed, this 60 page monograph invites viewers into the imagined landscapes of Elimelech, which evoke a play of logic, geometrics, and abstract imagery. Like a great jazz ensemble, Elimelech’s work leaves much of the final outcome to the observation and imagination of an audience. “I paint these abstracted landscapes in a way for people to admire and interpret openly, leaving them visual cues for the play of imagination.”This book, filled with powerful imagery, which includes an introduction by noted art dealer Louis Stern and a forward by art critic Peter Frank, immerses the reader in color, light, geometry and precision, and is a visual feast unto itself.
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Charmed by an imagined world somewhere between fine-drawn aesthetics and a geometric wonderland is where the works of artist Moshé Elimelech find their audience.
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Exhibit - February 1-29
Moshé Elimelech: Arrangements
Opening Reception: February 5th, 3-5pm
LA ArtCore Gallery, February 1-29, 2012
120 S. Judge John Aiso St, Los Angeles, CA 90012 . / T. 213.617.0303The dynamic, interactive and finely executed cubic constructions of artist Moshé Elimelech will be showing at LA ArtCore February 1-February 29, 2012. There will ...
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Moshé Elimelech: Arrangements
Opening Reception: February 5th, 3-5pm
LA ArtCore Gallery, February 1-29, 2012
120 S. Judge John Aiso St, Los Angeles, CA 90012 . / T. 213.617.0303The dynamic, interactive and finely executed cubic constructions of artist Moshé Elimelech will be showing at LA ArtCore February 1-February 29, 2012. There will be an opening reception for the artist on Sunday, February 5 from 3-5pm.
Each of the painted-structures on exhibit display an array of visual combinations; each painting comprised of a grid of cubes with all six sides of each cube painted with different application. The works are positioned in a sectioned, recessed frame with only one facet of each cube visible at any one time, awaiting the kinetic action and manipulation of a third-party.
Elimelech employs a designers eye to grids of beautifully hand-painted three-dimensional cubes or, Arrangements. The basic structural clarity of these pieces make way for an exploration of thought, chance and vast optic alternatives. As critic Peter Frank describes in the forthcoming monograph titled Moshé Elimelech: Reflections and Arrangements, “Elimelech also draws on the ready, rather than spectacular, involvement of the audience in the process of discovery and play into which Op and Kinetic Art characteristically brings us.”
The sixty-page book will include photographed works of Elimelech’s watercolors, arrangements, and installations with an essay by Peter Frank on geometricism, choreography and the play of logic in Elimelech’s work. LA ArtCore will be selling the book during Elimelech's exhibition.Frank adds, “Astute viewers will observe that, for all the brittle modernity that apparently attends to Elimelech’s work, he is in fact something of a traditionalist. The “modernity” he practices is rooted not in latter-day stylistic indulgences, but in the integral concepts of design we associate with a modernity older than we are.”
QUICK INFO:
Book Titled: “Moshé Elimelech: Reflections and Arrangements.
Essay by Peter Frank
Introduction by Louis Stern
Release Date: January 1, 2012
About the Artist:
Expressing his fascination of the nature of duality, artist Moshé Elimelech has created a unique series of three-dimensional abstract cubic constructions that invite the viewer to reinterpret each piece. Putting into play his notion of opposing forces has yielded works that are fixed yet mutable, precise but free-flowing, analytical yet imaginative, singular in essence and at the same time open to reinterpretation.
Moshé Elimelech grew up in Israel where he was exposed to art at an early age. An acclaimed graphic designer, Elimelech in recent years has turned out work best described as a sophisticated synthesis of modernist features and architectural elements. Elimelech also works in watercolor and installations and currently resides in Los Angeles with his wife, noted fashion designer Shelli Segal.
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Exhibit: Jan 7 - Feb 11, 2012
Moshé Elimelech: Geometric Geographics
Opening Reception: Saturday January 7th, 6-9pm
L2Kontemporary Gallery- Jan 7-Feb 11, 2012
990 N. Hill St #205, Los Angeles, CA 9001. / T. 2 323-225-1282Los Angeles, Calif.— Artist Moshé Elimelech and L2kontemporary are pleased to present new work premiering January 7, 2012. A series of finely executed...
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Opening Reception: Saturday January 7th, 6-9pm
L2Kontemporary Gallery- Jan 7-Feb 11, 2012
990 N. Hill St #205, Los Angeles, CA 9001. / T. 2 323-225-1282Los Angeles, Calif.— Artist Moshé Elimelech and L2kontemporary are pleased to present new work premiering January 7, 2012. A series of finely executed watercolors will debut at L2Kontemporary Art Gallery in Chinatown with an opening on Saturday, January 7 from 6-9pm. The exhibition runs from January 7-February 11.
As in any traditional pictorial work rendered with pigment on an absorptive surface, the watercolors are all unique, handmade, and immutable. For every purely geometric composition rendered in watercolor, there is one in which stylized elements of landscape and/or cityscape appear, describing a charmed world of nuanced atmosphere with simplified objects, and topographies.
Elimelech transcends the professional design world into that of a fine artist. He applies his innate talent to creating powerful visual elements of the 21 century resulting in simple forms of traditional material. Although seemingly simple colored cells at first glance these works mask a hidden dialogue of rhythm, vibration and logic. "There is a musicality - both in the rhythmic structuring and pacing of the horizontal and vertical elements..." writes Art Critic, Ezrha Jean-Black.Accompanying this gallery show is the release of a sixty-page monograph entitled “Moshé Elimelech: Reflections and Arrangements,” of photographed works with an essay by Peter Frank, and an introduction by Louis Stern of Louis Stern Fine Arts. The book includes images from his watercolors, arrangements, and installations.
QUICK INFO:
Book Titled: “Moshé Elimelech: Reflections and Arrangements.
Essay by Peter Frank
Introduction by Louis Stern
Release Date: January 1, 2012
About the Artist:
Expressing his fascination of the nature of duality, artist Moshé Elimelech has created a unique series of three-dimensional abstract cubic constructions that invite the viewer to reinterpret each piece. Putting into play his notion of opposing forces has yielded works that are fixed yet mutable, precise but free-flowing, analytical yet imaginative, singular in essence and at the same time open to reinterpretation.
Moshé Elimelech grew up in Israel where he was exposed to art at an early age. An acclaimed graphic designer, Elimelech in recent years has turned out work best described as a sophisticated synthesis of modernist features and architectural elements. Elimelech also works in watercolor and installations and currently resides in Los Angeles with his wife, noted fashion designer Shelli Segal.