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Gradient, Yigal Feliks, 2008-2009

The Gradient Project, some of which is being exhibited in the "Hagalleria" gallery in Paris, is part of a very ambitious undertaking.  If completed, it will study three main sectors, or gradients of the Israeli landscape, exploring the contemporary reality of cultural change and the dynamics of its internal growth.  The work being exhibited is carefully ambiguous as it pivots alternate emotions and values in the same image.  Each image must be studied, and the final experience shows a fragile country which reflects the reality of the young state,- for better or worse, and not the dream.  These images become an intimate personal view of contemporary Israel as seen by a native who loves the country and yet is not afraid to expose it to others, revealing a critical and yet caring image of his travels through the coastal gradient.
The exceptional quality of the prints, allude both to the most contemporary digital aesthetic, and at the same time refer to the marvelous delicate colorations and hues of Picturesque Palestine and Roberts Engravings of the 1800s.
Yigal Feliks, photographer, currently a pear-time instructor at the prestigious Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem where he graduated a few years ago.
 
The exhibit will be accompanied by a recorded musical composition which was composed especially for this work by Israeli composer and conductor Itay Talgam.  The multi-layered texture of mixed concrete and pure electronic sounds are his interpretation of the uneasy, strange resonating harmonies which he feels emerge from the man made objects causing an unexpected harmony with the natural landscape encountered in these images.
 
(Yosaif Cohain
senior lecturer
Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem)

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