Artists

Moshe Vollach, B. 1958, Tel Aviv

Multidisciplinary Artist – sculpture, video art, performance, photography

The themes most prominent in my work are Space- matter correlation, nothingness and beingness, present and absent, drawing and erasing. My art work reacts to topics that engage and trouble me in our society, politics and environment.

My art works are conceptual, but in addition to the focus I give the idea, the aestheticism of the result is very important to me. My Images are minimalistic in nature, while my choice of mediums varies – sculpture, video, documented performance and photography.

“31 Cubes” – A land art project

31, π x π x π, cubes aligned, π distanced from each other.

A long row of, 61 identical-size cubes, is stretched toward the horizon, composing a string of: matter cube – space cube – matter cube – space cube….

The cubes are made of ice, placed in the desert on a hot summer day on June 2016. The defrosting process is documented, from the air and from the ground, using 5 stills cameras in time-lapse mode.

When the process is complete, a row of 61 identical cubes remains: space cube – space cube – space cube – space cube….

The art-work refers to the relationship between matter and space in the field of art in general and Sculpture in particular.

The project accentuates – formative, climatic, physical, mathematical and geomorphologic – contrasts.

This land-art project discusses: global warming, radical climate changes, icebergs defrosting and desertification.

This art work is a land art project that relates to the power of nature of our home planet earth: the desert earth, the heat of the sun, the presence of the vast clear sky above, water and the absence of it, temperatures from scorching heat to frozen ice, the force of the wind blowing in our ears, the effect of light and shade and the time dimension.

31 Cubes sounds an alarm to the world about the damages we humans inflict on this planet our only home. We destroy our fortress from within and we must stop before it will be too late.

@moshevollach

mvollachart@gmail.com