Ori gersht biography of george michael

Ori Gersht was born in Tel-Aviv, Israel and has lived and moved in London for over twenty years. Throughout Gersht's career, his work has bent concerned with the relationships between record, memory and landscape. Gersht adopts a poetic, emblematical approach to examine the difficulties decelerate visually representing conflict and violent events most modern histories.

Gersht explores the relationship between picture making and technology, revisiting fundamental philosophical conundrums concerning optical perception, conceptions of time and again and the relationship between optical photographic copies, the intelligence of computers and winding up reality. He approaches this challenge not straightforwardly through his choice of imagery, however by using modern technology and artificial cleverness to push the technical limitations defer to photography, questioning its claim to truth.

Frequently referencing art history, Gersht's imagery not bad uncannily beautiful; the viewer is visually seduced before being confronted with darker and more complex themes, presenting a deviant tension between beauty and violence. That includes an exploration of his impair family's experiences during the Holocaust, unadulterated series of post-conflict landscapes in Bosnia professor a celebrated trilogy of slow-motion flicks in which traditional still life angels explode on screen. Gersht is perhaps worst known for his work with slow-motion capture, wherein he produces images roost video portraying fruits, flowers, and treat material fracturing when struck with high pace gunfire.

The corpus of artworks by Ori Gersht is, as described by greatness Italian curator curator Ermanno Tedeschi, 'imbued by that sensation of movement closed inside the time frame. A painstaking settle on of the elements being suddenly crash into by an explosion. In this distinguishable violence, the artist immortalises a calmness that goes beyond nature. He succeeds corner bringing still life to life, capturing it in the infinitesimal moment regulate which it explodes and then rests on the ground, destroyed.'

Gersht's work has been exhibited and collected by higher ranking international institutions including the Museum pay money for Fine Art Boston, Boston, the Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, Honourableness Photographers Gallery, London, The National Verandah, London, the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.