NYAB Event - Brigitte NaHoN "Haim Shelley Part One: Works from Tel Aviv"

Brigitte NaHoN "Haim Shelley Part One: Works from Tel Aviv"

Stephan Stoyanov Gallery

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The Stephan Stoyanov Gallery announces Brigitte NaHoN's first solo exhibition at the gallery after exhibiting her works in various group shows since 2006. This exhibition, entitled: Haim Shelley, Part One: Works from Tel Aviv, will focus on NaHoN's recent sculptures created from 2009 to 2012 since she immigrated to Israel.

The title of the exhibition is derived from the combination of two names, Haim and Shelley Nahon, both Holocaust survivors, NaHoN's uncle and his wife, respectively. In Hebrew, 'Haim Shelley' translates to 'my lives'. 'Life' is always plural in accordance with the Jewish faith and Hebrew language, which is a testament to the fact that lives are at once shared and interconnected.

For this exhibition, 7 recent sculptures are presented called Shinning Space, Frozen Time, and Holiness. Shinning Space was created when NaHoN lived in Kibbutz Hatzor (2009-2010), which is next to an important Israeli air force base. The artist transformed the daily noise disturbance of F16 planes, which took off during military training, to become triangle shapes in a shining sky. This work expresses how solitude can become ethereal and even vanish when shared with others. The work is a metaphor for chaos becoming balance, conjoining volume with space and space with time.

Frozen Time was created in Tel Aviv and NaHoN kept the triangle shape which is an important symbol in Jewish culture and history. The triangles made in steel plastic and polished paper, protrude outward as if they are reaching infinity from the sky, pushing the limits and asking for a new beauty, a new balance.

Finally, the 5 sculptures called Holiness, explore the bond between the physical and spiritual within our environment and between generations and religions. Inside each gold triangle or pyramidal cube, NaHoN has created a kind of holy object for pushing the limits of belief, knowledge and perception. It is an attempt to conflate Christianity and Judaism in a gold and transparent space in reference to the Jerusalem light. NaHoN's ethereal sculptures investigate the concept of perfect balance in an imperfect world, relating the artist's personal experiences to the framework of history as a whole.

Simultaneously, The French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) is hosting an exhibition by NaHoN entitled Haim Shelley Part Two: Works from New York to Tel Aviv, from November 28th to January 12th, 2013. This exhibition, curated by Tony Guerrero, Director of Visual Arts and Programs, is intended as an historical reflection of NaHoN's works between 1995 to the present.