21.11.2020 – 27.02.2021

Searching for the Shapes Within

The Art World of the 1960-70’s experienced a healthy
transformation in perception with the emergence of
Performance and Land Art. These new modes of artistic
expression challenged the traditional white cube scenario
of what art is and how it should be exhibited. Using our
natural environment as its own stage for creative
interpretations in whatever form, helped in laying the
foundations in how art is perceived in this century.
"Searching for the Shapes Within", is a group exhibition
presented by Persons Projects, that focuses on the earth
as a common base for these different artistic interventions.
What we see, breathe and stand on is part of the natural
world we build our state of being from. Yet in reality it’s a
combination of numerous elements and shapes all
converging together to form an environment that’s in
constant flux. What all these artists share in common is a
mutual sense for experimentation that creates new frames
for thought. Their works form a 50-year timeline,
beginning in the early 1970’s up until the present, that
engages in a joined dialogue that spans from California,
Iceland, Finland, Poland to Israel.
They share a collective approach in how they use our
natural landscape as the basic material for their frames of
thinking. These pieces find their beginnings from the
Mojave (California) and Negev (Israel) deserts, onto the
glaciers of Iceland, back to the forests of Finland and
finally to the rolling hills of Poland. Their bond is not bound
by a place, rather a cognitive approach in understanding
the aspects of meaning through the process of doing. Their
methodologies may differ yet they all share a performance
like sensibility in the realization of the final image. These
works represent personal stages without borders, where
there is no other audience but the future.