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Gal Weinstein, born 1970 .................................................................................................................................................................. Slope quotes from an earlier installation by Gal Weinstein, who in 1999 covered the entire area of the floor of The Kibbutz Art Gallery in Tel Aviv with a red-tiled roof. His European-style roof was a metaphor for Israeli bourgeois aspirations that deny the reality of the Mediterranean environment, and the focus on the roof in isolation made its presence more pronounced and turned it into an object, the symbol of an unrealized utopia. Weinstein has now returned to the roof image, this time placing roofs in what appears to be a heap of soot that has hardened and buried the buildings underneath it. The submerged roofs make the failure of the bourgeois utopian dream all the more evident: they bring to mind the villas of Pompeii, the prosperous Roman city that was destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius, while their obviously synthetic materials echo the falsity of a Las Vegas tourist site. |
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