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Dr. Sari Fishman | Art Science

Exhibition

Exhibition opening: Thursday, January 18, 2018 at 20:00

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Curator: Kobi Carmi

In the past few years, scientist and contemporary artist Sari Fishman has been working in Israel and showcasing her art worldwide. I first met Sari at a curating course, a meeting which eventually led to the current exhibition, a glimpse into the multicolored universe of the artist and her artwork in the current era.

Sari uses the art medium as a radiant trumpet for expressing contemporary global and local issues. Her series range from personal to interpersonal to social and back again, in a dance to be interpreted by the viewer alone. Her progress as an artist is visible through all of her works. The movement of materials, technique and statement become doubly clear when paired with her history from dance teacher to a biotechnologist, dedication to motherhood, and her identity as a woman in modern society.

Sari comes from a long line of artists. He grandfather was a painter and sculptor in Ukraine, and her father followed suit as he interjected art into his daily live. Her mother is a groundbreaking scientist who develops drugs for oncology and inflammatory diseases. Through this intersection of worlds, Sari has grown to view art as a laboratory in which she experiments with various techniques.

Sari considers herself an art scientist. She is constantly seeking materials for maximal expression of the themes she explores, via various mediums – photography, video, prints and painting. The search for new thrills is a key element in her work of trial and error. She combines non-standard materials such as house paint, tar, and gold with tiffany blue, bringing to life the convergence of regal and daily.

The artistic tension in her works is born of a union between science and art, and is expressed in her series titled Psychedelic Self-Photography, created at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. The series shows elegant women gradually disappearing into a rainbow pallet, their lower body a shadow transforming into a smudge. The series invites the viewer to observe the fantasy of loss of control and blurring of lines between the central self and the surroundings.

The Water Contamination series is the artist’s most prominent work, a free movement of paint and tar, some focused and some scattered, spilling and spreading in al directions. The viewer encounters a collection of laboratory petri-dishes, as the canvas and other surprising materials form the substrate for growing the paint and movement free from all limitations.

A Vice President of a biotechnology company developing a drug for liver cancer, Sari confronts her viewers with the pulsing issue of water contamination, prevalent worldwide and in China particularly, and its role in the deadly disease. Problems of control and lack thereof, science and faith take part in this unique series.

Her vigor and force manifest through introspection and outwardly examination of materials, substrates and styles. Sari frequently showcases her work abroad, and has won many rewards, including the Leonardo Da Vinci World Award of Arts and the International Art Prize Mantegna at the Biennale of Mantova. Her works are sought out and displayed in events such as the Venice Biennale, Festival Di Spoleto, and museums in Spain, Denmark, and South Korea. The artist is currently focused on establishing herself in Israel.