Video: Body language: live calligraphy by Israeli artist Ronit Bigal
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Creativity of an artist from Israel Ronit Bigal (Ronit Bigal) could be called bodypainting, but this oversimplifies the matter. The Old Testament texts in Hebrew, calligraphically drawn directly on human skin, look mysterious and bewitching, appealing to both the sensual and the spiritual at the same time.
Works included in the Ronit Bigal cycle Body Sculpture, - the result of hard work. In accordance with the name of the cycle, one can discern some "sculpturality" in them: Bigal seeks to demonstrate not only the beauty of language and letters, but also the mysterious beauty of the curves of the human body. The viewers are given the opportunity to independently conjecture whether the choice of this or that part of the body is somehow connected with the biblical text that the artist puts there.
In the works of Ronit Bigal, the human body turns out to be not just a "sculpture", but a real landscape, moreover, sustained in an abstract spirit - since the tiny letters applied on the skin by the artist completely disorient the viewer, forcing him to discard the usual ideas about sizes and functions, for example, of a human palms. In Bigal's work, you can constantly find new subtexts. For example, it is curious that the artist reproduces the sacred Jewish texts in Hebrew, while using the traditional techniques of Indian ink calligraphy.
The Bible is capable of inspiring a wide variety of artists in its own way - from the creator of surrealist illustrations to Scripture, the great Salvador Dali, before Matthew Picton, from scraps of biblical text that created a paper model of Jerusalem. For Ronit Bigal, the texts of the Old Testament became an occasion to reflect on the amazing beauty of the human body: according to a press release from one of the artist's exhibitions, photographs of her work reveal "hidden landscapes, textures and an unexpected erotic component." Along the way, the artist encourages to think about the "hidden meaning" - literal and aesthetic - of the texts with which she works.
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